The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28

he had secured. when he turned to find
| sir George wide, awake and looking at
| him. He stabbed him to the heart with
the brsdawl which ne held in his hand" "
How do YOU know IL was q badawl?'
! Because a bradaw was used In heel
! ing his shoes. as ! discovered when he
| the bank To continue. after having per-
| petratcd the murder ne was filled with
booty-which was in bag"
There was no barrow?"
Crewe shook his head.
over his back. he hurried away and
| concealed it-where. 1t Is useless 70 IN
quire, We might search the estate for
| days without discovering this and. after
all. 1t is irrelevant TO our purpose; Then.
and then only. he remembered that he
had read in bis Sunday newspaper OF the
| threats made against his masters life.
| That seemed TO offer salvation. He stole
back TO the house and placed upon The
dead mans breast the clipping from the
| newspaper. detailing these threats. Then
| he rushed of to Fisher and concocted
some stoIy-and the imagination OF the
/ townspeople furnished the dark stranger
| who had been lurking in tho neighbor
hood, a lay figure who frequently ap-
pears pIaII after mysterious murder"
| How do you know all ths?"
II sensed IL first" said Crewe "Then
| l soon built up my criminal by the heel
! To begin with, IL was, though water
i soaked. unusually small for a mans heel
| that Is, considering the poor quality OF
| the leather. which indicated that the shoe
belonged 10 a poor-that Is TO say,
| laboring man.
narrow shoe. 4 shoe of that description
I means a light, but not necessarily a
short man. The foot, of course, develops
strictly In accordance with the bodys
Il knew that the owner was not short.
because OF the space between the foot
tracks. indicating length OF limb. Con-
sequently the owner of the heel was tall
| and slight There are only three types
| OF men In the world. Langton. the tall
and slight. the short and slight, and the
| heavy man-.whether tall or not Is inn
material Now our friend Evans exactly
answered the description which the heel
| afforded me-"
| But You could never convict a man
upon such theorlzlng."
mo. of course. / merely used the theory
as groundwork from which to build up
I'facts. | got those when he was kneel-
| ing in front Of the hole"
| What were they?'
But Crcwe became suddenly taclturn.
| walt till we bring home the catch to-
night" he answered 'Langton. / smell
| supper and this country air has made
| mo uncommonly hungry
The hours after supper seemed TO spin
| out interminably. We smoked our pipes
in the library until midnight when
| yellow arc on the eastern horizon indi-
Gated the rising of the moon. When II
| had mounted high enough 10 food the
country with its silvery light Crewe and
| / set out silently from the house toward
| the lake. he carrying the file hook
| the length of cord, We crossed the ice
and. having reached the hole, which was
already covered with new coating tied
| the hook TO the cord. weighted IL with
paper weight. which Crewe took from his
pocket. and let IL descend. AS Crewe
had foretold, the thirty feet proved am
pie. We felt the weight strike the bot
! tom when the cord was three-quarters
out and then ensued one OF the most
wearying explorations that 1 have ever
| known.
Patience. always patience. Langton."
| said Crewe to me, THE chances are
| roughly. about fifty to one against our
striking what we want at each cast OF
| the line, And then" he added as II in
an afterthought, 1T may not be there,
But 1t must be; there was nowhere else
| 10 throw it
That some object besides stones lay
| at the bottom OF the pond was evident,
for We felt the hook and the weight re-
/ peatedly strike against II: but every
| time the cord came up with nothing but
| the empty hook coated with slime, Again
! and again we erapped but in vain. Once
we brought the object OF our search
| yard or more from the bottom, but II
fell back
Take stroll and smoke. Langton."
said Crewe, finally This is one OF the
disagreeable tasks of n detectives life.
| We have six hours yet until daybreak."
| He took the cord from my numbed
| I smoked one pipe-two-Alit the third
| and thrust the stem into my tobacco
burned mouth. Suddenly perceived that
| Crewe was hauling something out of the
| hole. He brought il To the level OF the
icc7r-over. Then it dropned from the