The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-01

cidents which afford him employ
ment. the study and research
given to his calling and It's de
tails as he goes along, have a ten
dency to make him a better hand
at the business, to develop-to
extend" him, as the pugilistic
fraternity say. and TO that extent
he is The creation of conditions.
In such degree his skill is the
result Of education. but unless ma
ture has shaped the pattern and
nodded the image into shape, ex-
perlence, association and educa-
tion accomplish no more than they
would on person who seeks 10
become an orator, yet, who can
not induce two coherent and re-
lated sentences Of fervid language
to spring to being from his lips
to save his life.
The detective-the great detec-
tive-must first of all be gifted
with lmpregnable courage, supple
mented with a large fund of
shreWdness and tact. He must be
fairly we'll versed in the ways of
mankind in its varied conditions.
and be able to so conduct himself
IN whatever one Of them he may
be found, as to appear to belong
there-a very rare Gift.
lie must be hawk-eyed. deer
footed, llght-hngered and heavy.
handed must have unusual pres
ence Of mind4and steadiness of
nerve. analytical method and a
ferret-llke disposition; not hard.
hearted, nor yet too sympathetic.
adding to these as many accom-
pllshments in the way of general
schooling, languages, law, etc, as
possible.
Anderson the Real Smart Aleck.'
Marvellous Anderson was the pos
SCISSOR IN some degree, Of all the quail
ties natural and acquired herein set
out. Perhaps the reader will not draw
ms conclusions as TO this from ANYTHING
that has previously been recorded in
this absorbing story regarding the San
Francisco Investigator; that so far as
the record discloscs his characteristics
he is more clever at causing, than soIv-
ing pcrpleXlng situations and is himself
ocing borne along by tcmpestuous and
conhlcting circumstances to as great
an extent, II not greater. than those to
whom he was called upon to aid.
However, Just such criticism might
be, from the present aspect of matters
and things relating to the personnel of
thus drama, the reader should bear in
mind that he Cor she) too is expected
to have qualities, among them patiencc,
trust 10 tlmc--a brief time now-and
the skill Of those who shall write the
succeeding chapters of this somewhat
exacting recital 10 make everything as
plain as Ensign Peak and as satisfying
as cellar full of coal
-hATNclONs Anderson. shortly after
the incidents last related. was sitting
in his office doing nothing so completes,
Iy That hls cigar had gone out. He was
putting i'm some heavy stunts in the
thinking line. however, and it NAV we'll
be imagined that his thoughts were on
the case IN which he had been so success.
tul in creating almost unhcard Of com
pGcations and lodging solutions,
HE figured, and rightly too at that
that despite his secret conference with
the Mysterious Priest he had been
fooled. Truc-he remembered Nthat al
that conference he had detected that
his nocturnal caller had protrudod n
foot which was undoubtedly that of one
belonging TO a woman, and vct-the
subsequent events, coupled with the
had tended moro 10 duh his reasoning
powers rather than TO act as a stimu.
lailng force,
That the person whom he had hui n
short while previously left outside the
ST. Francis hotel, and whom he WAS
sure was tho Mysterious Priest. and
whom he had almost convinced him
self was the possessor Of blue eyes and
| golden hair, was woman. and not "A
man, was point which the San Fran
cisco Investigator was busilv evolving
| in his mind,
| He had permitted his quarry TO make
a hurried departure from the ST Fran.
cjs-and WHY? Was it. because of The
story told him but short time pre-
vlous by this same mysterious charac-