The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-03
BY WILLARD MACK.

AS the Mysterious Stranger
went down in heap from the
punch delivered by Chief of De
tectivcs Sheets. Holmes stepped
across the PROSTATE body of the
stranger and removed the gun
from his stiffened fingers.
You hit like a Missouri mule.
Brother Sheets" and then with
an amused smile, ''Why let Jeff.
fight the nigger?" BY this time
the crstwhile Pinkerton man was
slowly trying to rise.
Sheets and Holmes helped him
to chair near window, and
after few minutes he said, very
slowly: What fell on me .
Where am II"
You, said Detective Sheets.
arc III Salt Lake, and unless you
come across clean, and tell me
who You are. and what the devil
you mean jabbing a big Cat IN
my face, 1t will be you and me TO
headquarters. "
Il want that money and the
jewels, y said the stranger. "Do
you hear? | want them
Ny dear young man." super
ciliously' observed Sheets, "there
are a whole lot Of people mixed
up in this affair who want the
same thing" Then to Holmes
We'll, what do you want to do ?"
=" First of ALL" said Holmes, 81
best send Mr.. Woods a wire and tell
him we have recovered the missing
property. Then | guess it me back
TO Frisco as fast as steam can take
And in the meantimc,D said
Sheets. Chow about Nick Carter the
boy wonder?n and he pointed to the
stranger, who by this time, was nurs.
ing very swollen Jaw.
'Oh. said Holmes. "I had almost
forgotten, III be hanged if l know
what to do about him.
Well, it, up to. you" said Detec.
tive Sheets. You have got the money
and Jewels. You are going back to
Frisco The only thing remaining now
that ] can see is this gentleman.'7 .
This gentleman the stranger cut
in, talking like man with hot po-
tato in his mouth "this gentleman is
going back TO Frisco on the same train
with YOU, Mr.. Holmes -
'tOh, YOU are, eh'' said Holmes.
'Yes. am" said the stranger, ''I
don I know you any better than you
know me. You mt make any get
away with that money and iewelrv.
How do ] know you are going to
Friscol How do ! know the richtful
owners of that property will ever set
eyes on it3;
''Why should YOU know'' broke in
Sheets. You say You don t know Mr..
| Holiness Well. all right; that goes for
YOU. but not for me. | know him:
know his credentials are right: ] know
what he came for and he got il. And
l know Furthermore that Mr., Holmes
Will dc liver the property he has to the
rlgbtfuI owner. So now. unless YOU can
show nc whore You come in in this
ease you arc done, and that goes as il
laws -
No. | am not DONE said the man
with the swollen Jaw. 81 am lust be.
inning; told Detective Anderson who
| was; he knows -
"You told him YOU were a Plnkerton
Yes said the stranger, 81 did. -
"Well,' said Holmes. you are
How do YOU know / am uot!" an.
swercd the stranger.
" You fellows talk like z pair of old
women, said Sheets. @ Now, cut out
all this loud talk about being a pinker.
ton man. know Billy Pinkcrton and
have vet to see the first plain clothes
man leave the central Office without
credentials, and pretty good ones, too.
Now where's yours? | never saw YOU
till YOU Jumped in here with the grand
stand gun play hotfoot' vags out OF
this town every day that pcddlc me u
loi OF hot air about who they are.
g Now ! have got no more time to
waste on YOU, only don I Won expect To
go around the county. Young man, gum
shoeing' on case like this with no
further credentials than '3S.Colts.' be.
and then YOU VIII have TO show some.
thing.
"All right, said the stranger. as he
looked al Sheets and Holmes. as though
wondering whether TO begin again or
not . SoI arc lot of wise guys, YOU
city Dicks, but YOU wait and sec who
II am.
"AlI right. said Sheets. III wait.
but ] want TO slip YOU IA little advice
;. You had best not read any more of that
Old Sleuth editioD-leavc that to the
elevator boy; he has more time and il
don t drive hIm TO make such foolish
plays as il does some other people,
"I have nothing more TO saw. " said
the stranger.
THAT s tho best thing YOU have said