The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-19
Che Exploits 81 a Physician Detective


the chicken coop is. an the side
fence, but I didn't go nowheres near
them. / run out the front way
You say the man was very large.
Was there anything else you noticed
about him."
81 dunno s the wuz. He run kinder
curious when he come ont the house.
He wuz lame guess. His feet. seemed
kinder funny. tn way he used EN-"
Should you say he might have been
club-footed?"
Maybe ne wuz. couldn't tell.
'Twuz the kinder jerky way he run.
P'haps he had wooden laig, 'Twuz
dark, an only see tn men quick-like. "
DR.. Furniyall took her hand again be-
tween the bars and pressed il.
Cheer up. We shall have you out OF
here very soon," he said.
She watched him as he walked down
the short corridor to the office, the I'M
wonted intelligence in her face slowly
giving way to her normal fatuous ex-
preston.
us there a negro in the town who
does embarrassing" the doctor asked
the chief
Il dunno of none" he answered
cant We git none in tn city," He
was grinding tobacco. between his
surprise ct the question.
81 should like to find one here" re-
turned DR.. Furnivall in a matter-of-
fact tone.
Dye know where the's coon white
washer, JIM" asked the chief oblig-
ingly of one of his men who was work
ing about the room.
Jim spat, scratched his arm thought
fully. and came forward.
49, . 1,
erbys shanty." he answered. II see
darky there this moFnin', an he look
ed like one-hed on white overalls an
his jumper was kinder daubed. Might
"a been lime. though. P'haps he makes
mortar fer tn masons"
You don't know him then-he's a
Stranger" asked Dr.. Furnivall
mo, 1 don't know him myself" the
man returned.
but tn Weatherbys could gin ye
pints on him, / guess. He's in their
shanty. Joe Weatherby wuz with him
when 1 see him.
zoe is Soils nephew-used t work in
tn city He amt been back long," vol
unteered the chief for Dr. Furnivall 5
enlightenment.
What kind of a man is this Joe?''
the doctor asked. IF he should rec
ommend the negro to me, could 1 take
his woFd?'
Wal" The chief knit his brows. 81
don't wanter say nothin' agin any o.
Sol Weathersby's folks. He's a good
man, an s gut proppurty. An Joe
amt never made us no trouble. He
amt lived round here much since ne
wuz a boy"
The doctor FASTENED out to the auto
mobile in front of the door
Il am going to drop you up here ia
the woods, where you'll be out of sight
for little while" he said to it's Oecu-
pant. In which direction is the shanty
belonging to the Weathersbys?" And
when they were started he continued;
Il accept the woman's story in toto
and must base my theory on it. What
kind of a character must be his who, in
the circumstances, would allow her to
pass-what could be his reasons?
have settled on what seems, so far, the
only possible fact, and am looking fOI
man who is large, for she so de-
scribed him" brutal, because of his
methods; densely ignorant, for reasons
that will appear in his confession, prob
ably foreigner or negro of the lowest
stamp. 1 incline to the negro, because
the woman noticed that he had an odd
gait-so many of them have great feet
and wear Ungainly shoes run down a:
lllG DCcis anu Wdlk Will NtSlDie cllOIl
and also for the reason that she found
traces of whitewdsh on her nightgOwn
Many whitewashers are negroes. His
companion doesn't matter now, for, the
big man once found, the other can't
escape. The only point that is not clear
to me is why the will was taken and
burned and the money left behind But
that Will appear in the sequel. You
would better alight here and hide in the
bushes. shall go to the station for
help. which the chief will readily give
me If he thinks. we're after Susan's ac-
completes. When we come back from
the shanty you can join us If we stop
at this spot. But, If we drive straight
by our expedition will have failed. and
you'll have to wait until return for
you"
A half hour afterward the automobile
containing Dr. Furniyall, the. chief and
one OF his men, approached the Wealth
ersby shanty. 1t was small, unpaint-
ed, weather-beaten structure, sitting a
| little back from the road. on the edge of
the dark woods. in use only in haying
! time. for TIE occupancy of such itin-