The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-13


Quite true Watson The telegram still remains the
only solid thing with which have to deal, and we
must not permit attention wander away from it,
u is to gain light upon the purpose of this telegram
Of o we ni9 aGm tu" our way 20 h
be very much surprised if before evening have not
cleared 1t up, or made considerable advance along
1t was 9! already dark when reached the old uni
ordered the man to drive to the house of DR.. Leslie
Armstrong few minutes later. we had stopped at
shown in and after long wait at last admitted
into the s?nsutng ROOM where we found the doctor
nv It the & rec in whoG oh had lost wh
unknown to me- Now, am aware that he is not only
one of the heads Of the medical school Of the unver
than one branch of science Yet even without know
ing his brilliant record could not fail to be inn
sve face the broodng eyes under the thatched brows
and the % & ErantSS mo4dng Of the inexbe Jaw
GRIM asgeetic contained formdabe5So / read
his hand, and he looked np with no very pleased eT
preston upon his dour features
~ have heard your name Mr.. Sherlock Holmes,
hn ANA am aware Of your professon-ono Of which
nnent with every criminal in the country said my
$50 far as your efforts are directed towards the
suppression of crime sr they must have the support
I cannot doubt, that the official machinery is amply
sufficient for the purpose. Where your calling is
crets Of private individuals when You rake up family
matters which are better hidden and when you Incl
than yourself. At the present moment, for example
shonld be writing a treatise instead of conversng
No doubt, doctor; and yet the conversation may
prove more important than the treatise Incidentally,
You very justly blame. and that endeavorng
10 prevent ANYTHING like pnbic exposure of private
case IS fairly in the hands of the official police You
n p op4n Of f the hs sS fn % m who
What about hm?''
- J on know HIM, do not y,
..Ve We IS an intimate friend of mine
All ndeed Tberc ne Ta ssn So cbspnse o
in the the rugged features of the doctor.
lie left his hotel last night-he has not been
''No doubt he will return
Tomorrow is the varsity football match
w. have no sympathy with these childish games:
inc Inc y0nne man 3 fate interests me deeply, since
NOT come within my horizon at ALL
of Mr.. stanton s fate Do You know where he si
Certainly not"
You have not seen him since yesterdayi"
WAS Mr., staunton healthy mani"
did yog ever know him illi''
bin u nss BY Mr. Mr. odv s stsunton as
picked it out from the papers upon his desk
The doctor flushed with anger.
81 DO not feel that there is reason whv should
render an explanation to you, Mr., Holmes.
Holmes replaced the bill in his note book. ''If you
later said he ''T have already told YOU that can
hush up that which others will be bound to publish,
and You would really be wiser to take me into your
complete confidence
~ know nothing about it,
..Pd. ...Ppid yo9 hear from Mr. staunton in London'"
Dear me, dear me-tbe postofice agan!'' Holmes
sighed YEARLY. "A most urgent telegram was dis
patched to you from London by Godfrey Staunton at
edly associated with his disappearance-and yet you
have not had it. t is most culpable shall certainly
2r. Leslie Armstrong sprang up from behind his
desk and his dark face was crimson with fury.
said be. "Tou can tell your employer, Lord Mount
either with him with bis agents. No sir-not an
ot 9tner t Tord He rang the bell furlously John,
cred severely to the door and we found ourselves
in the street. Holmes burst out laughing.
and character" said he. 81 have not seen man
who. if he turns his talents that way, was more cal
BY s s srsned and
friendless in this inhospitabe town, which cannot
Just opposite Armstrong; house is snguary adapted
to onr needs II YOU would engage a front room and
time to make few inquiries
lengthy proceeding than Holmes had imagined for he
dld not return to the inn until nearly 3 clock He
ready upon the table: and when his needs were salts
half comic and wholly phlosophic view which was
natural to him when his affairs going awry, The
glance out of the window \ brougham and pair of
ereys under the glare of lamp, stood before the
doctor s door.
''It been out three hours. " said Holmes ''started
$50 and here it is back again That gives n ra-
dius of ten twelve miles and he does it once,
sometimes twice, day. -
NO unusual thing for doctor in practice
- But Armstrong is not really a doctor in practice
He is lecturer and consultant, but he does not
care for general practice which distracts him from
literary work. Why, then, does he make these long
JOURNEYS, which must be exceedingly rksome to him.
and who is it that he visits?'
|'Mv dear Watson, Won doubt that it was TO
him that first applied? do not know whether il
came from his innate depravtv or from the
promptiugs of his master. hut he rude enough to
set dog at me- Neither dog liked the look
Of nv stick however, and the matter fell through
Relations strained after that. and further In.