The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-11
Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the
Norwood Builder

he had not the to lie quiet before an alarm
Of FIRE We could of course. have gone in and tasep
besides owed you little mystifcation, Lestrade'
for your chaff in the morning y
'Wel, sir. You certainly got equal with me on
that But how in the world did You know that ne
final; and so it was, in very different sense.
knew it had not been there the day before, l pay
may have observed, and had examined the hall, and
was that the wall was clear Therefore, 1T had
s1 wh e packets tx ons cd
the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft Ws1 va.
Il would be S done so qk ad 60 s nauG hst
tion of it,. Very likely 1T just so happened and Old
o had R nGoe & e tn the s sp s Of
suddenly struck him what absolutely damnng . evi.
thumb mark, 1t the simplest thing in the world
for him to take WAX impression from the seal, to
pin prick, and to put the mark upon the wall during
the night, either with his own hand or with that
documents @ Which he took with him into his retreat,
L will lay you wager, that you find the seal with
WONDERFUL :" said Lestrade. 'Wopderfu IT'S
all as clear M crystal as ySg put mr. IT. 6nt yest is
overbearug manner had changed suddenly to that of
''Woll l don Z think that is. very hard to explain.
4 deep malicious; vindctive person is the gen,
TINT be was once refused by McI'arapes motheri
You don ~ told you that you should go pack 10
BlackheaIth first and Norwood afterwards WE'LL this
IN Jury. as he would consider it, has rankled in bis
wicked schemng brain and all his life he has louged
for vengeance, but never seen his chance. During
the last year or two. things have gone against him
a bad wav He determines to swindle his creditors,
and for this purpose he pays large cheques to
tain Mr.. Cornelius who is imagine, himself under
another name, | have not traced these cheques yet,
but | have no doubt that they were banked under
that name provincial town where Oldsere
from time time led double existence He intended
10 change his name altogether, draw this money and
vanish starting life again elsewhere
'.Well, that g likely enough. -
''It would strike him that IN disappearing he
might throw all pursuit off his track and ut the
same time have ample and crushing revenge upon
his old sweetheart, if he could give the impression
that he had been murdered by her only child 1t
masterpiece OF villauy, and he carried it out like
obvious motive for the crime, tho secret visit uu.
known to his parents the retention OF the stick,
the blood, and the animal remains and buttons the
wood pile all admirable. Tt a net from
which it seemed to me, few hours ago that there
was no possible But he had not that supreme
gift of the artist, the knowledge when to stop He
Wished TO improve that which already perfect
to draw the tighter yet round the neck Of bis
unfortunate victm--and be ruined all. Let us
descend. Lestrade There just two Ques
tions that 7 would ask him,
The malignant creature Seatod his
psrlor with a policeman upon each side of him
nothing moro" he whine1 necessarily, "I assure
YOU Sir that ] simply concealed myself in order to
see the effect Of my disappearance, and 1