The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-18

an @ of surprise and dsay His face was
1--WE have let this affair far enough said he
turned up the timetable The last had just gone
Then we shall breakfast early and take the very
most urgently needed Ali here is our expected cable
gram One Ne Mrs. Hudson there may & be an
sage makes it even more essential that should not
lose lose an n9nT m IN II eg Gn cso % now ws
in which our simple Norfolk squire is eutanged
conclusion Of story which had seemed to me to be
Gy childish 3 nr1o and d aga Wod t9s
that I had some brighter ending to communicate to
my readers but these are the chronicles Of fact and
Of events which for some days made Riding Thorpe
Manor household word through the length and
We had hardly alighted at North washam,, and
toned the name of destination when the station,
the detectives from LondonG'' said he.
look of annoyance passed over Holmes, face
Because Inspector Martin from Norwich has just
gsss,ed through But maybe you are the surgeons:
be in time to save her yet-though 1T be for the
Holmes brow was dark with anxiety.
'fWe are going to Riding Thorpe Manor, said he.
tbut we have heard nothing Of what has passed
.Its terrible business, said the station master.
he sh os are G shot 1 both TN MI Hilton outt M and his wife
He's e dead I and o. her life is m Of D. DeaT qe
without word Holmes hurried to carriage, and
S%f @ sa a7a n he %
spondeut He had been uneasy during all our Journey
the moTnng With anxious attention but
now this sudden realization of his worst fears left
scat % lost in oom Ye there eSx @as
around to interest u.s. for passing through
singular countryside as any in England where
Of today while on every hand enormous square
told o
East Anglia At last the violet rim Of the German
coast, and the driver pointed With his whip to two
old brick and timber gables which projected from
grove of trees. "Thatfs Riding Thorpe Manor" said
As we drove up to the, porticoed front door, I OBJ
Toulouse and the pedestalled sundial with which we
had such strange associations. A dapper little
had just descended from high dog.cart He intro,
duced himself as Inspector Martin Of the Norfolk
when he heard the name of my companion.
Why, Mr., Holmes, the crime vas only committed d
London and get to the spot as soon as 1915
~ anticipated it. came in the hope of prevent,
'''rhen you must have important evidence, of which
we are ignorant, for they were said to be most
''I have only the evidence of the dancing men, -
said Holmes. ~ will explain the matter to you later.
Meanwhile since it is too late to prevent this tragedy,
] very anxious that should the knowledge
which possess in order to insure that Justice be done
Will you associate with me in your investigations or
will you prefer that should act Independently;
81 should be proud to feel that we were acting to-
''Ip that case should glad to hear the evidence
and to examine the premises without an instant Of
Inspector Martin bad the good sense to allow my
friend to do things in his fashion and eontepted
himself with carefully noting the results The local
surgeon, an old, white haired man, had just come
ported that her injuries serious but not
ary fatal The bullet had passed through the front
Of her M brain i1 and it would probably be % some 9 time
on of whether she had been shot had shot herself
he nd mot mot Ss to es dicded id
quarters There was only the pistol found in the
room two barrels els Of which had been empted Nj
equally conceivable that he had shot her and
then himself or that she she bad been the criminal for
''Has he been movedf'' asked Holmes.
od sr the
GLOW long have you been here, doctor9'
'..since four o'clock"
ffAnyone elsef''
eyes, the constable here.''
Nothing"
"You have acted with great discretion Who sent
"f,ho housemaid Saunders
...as tWas it she who gave the alarm"
'tWhere they now7'
90 In the kitchen, [ believe. -
'EThen think we had better hear their story at
The old hall, oak-panelled and high .windowed, bad
sat in great odfashioned chair his ne9orablo eyes
cleaning out of his haggard face, I could read in
quest
until the client whom he had failed to should be
at last avenged The trim Inspector Martin the old,
grey yheaded country DOCTOR myself, and stolid vii
lage policeman made up the rest of that strange
pany.
The two women told their story clearly enough
They had been aroused from their sleep by the sound
of an explosion, which M had been followed minute
and Mrs. King had rushed in to Saunders Together
they had descended the stairs The door of the study
open and candle burning upon the table.
Their master lay upon his face in the center of the
room He was quite dead. Near the window his wife
She was horribly wounded and the side of her face
incapable of saying anything. The passage, as we'll
as the room, was full of smoke and the smell of
powder. The window certainly shut and fastened
upon the inside. Both women were positive upon the