The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-01

amazement at my friend.
said he. $50 Reuben Hayes is takeu7 I right
glad to hear it, if 1t will not upon the fate of
.Your secretary''
mo, sir; my son.
1t was Holmes IS turn to look astonshed
81 confess that this is entirely new to. me- your
grace. I must beg you to be more explicit
you thst complete frankness however painful it may
be to is the best policy in this desperate situation
When was s' very w young ing! man s' M Holiness loved
With With such love as comes only once IN hfetime'
grounds that such a match might mar my career. Had
she lived, would certainly never have married any
her sake 1 have cherished and cared for could not
acknowledge the paternity to the world, but gave
hood have kept him ncsr my person. He surprised
my secret and has presumed since upon the claim
ing a scandal which would be sbhorrent to me- His
presence had something to do with the unhappy issue
climate heir from the first with persistent hatred
You well ask why, under these circumstances,
was because could see his mother face in his, and
that for her dear sake there end to my long
of them which he could suggest and bring back to
fey eygrsd o much fod es h not sho % 5"
Lord saltire-a mischief, that 1 dispatched him for
safety to Dr. Huxtabe's school:
James came into contact with this fellow Hayes,
acted as agent, The fellow was a rascal from tho
came intimate with him, He had always taste for
low company. When james determined to kdnap Lord
himself. You remember that ] wrote to Arthur upon
that last day. Well, James opened the letter and in
wood called the Ragged Shaw. which is near to the
school He used The duchesss name, and in that way
overI am telling you what he has himself confessed
to me and he told Arthur, whom he met in the wood,
ing him the moor, and that if he would come back
into the wood at midnight he would find with
phN ,po,11{ Saba 70 ban rfb oil
into the trap He TO the appointment and found
this fellow Hayes with led pony. Arthur mounted,
oH heard Sy
that Hayes struck the With his stick and that
to his public house, the Fighting Cock where he was
Ss 5 in an n6st bs bG U s
control of her brutal husband.
"Wel, Mr. Holmes, that was tho state of affairs
idea of the truth than you. You will ask me what
ta w srea ia ea sS
and fanatcal in the hatred which he bore my heir In
estates and he deeply resented those social laws which
made it impossible. At the same time, he had def,
the entail. and be was Of opinion that i lay in my
power to do He intended TO make bargain, with
it possible for the estate TO be left to him by
will. He knew we'll that should nevor Willingly in,
would have proposed such bargain to me; but he
did not actually do for events moved too quickly
for him. and he had not time to put his plans into
siWbat brought all his wicked scheme to wreck was
your discovery of this man Heidegger's dead body.
James was seized with horror at the news, IT came
to us yesterday, sat together in this study DR..
Huxtable had sent 81 telegram. James over
whelmed with grief and agitation that my suspicious.
which had never been entirely absent rose instantly
to a certainty. and taxed him with the deed. he
made complete voluntary confession. Then he i'm.
plored me to keep his three DAYS longer
to give his wretched accomplcc chance of saving
his guilty life. yieded-,as ] have always Welded
TO his PRAYERS and instantly James hurried off to the
Fighting Cock to Hayes ard give him the
of fight could not 90 there by daylight without