Part 2 chapter 7 of a study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan
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conclusion. We had all been warned to appear
before the magistrates upon the Thursday, but when the Thursday
came, there was no occasion for our testimony.
A higher judge had taken the matter in hand and Jefferson.
Hope had been summoned before. A tribunal where strict Justice
would be meted out to him on the very night after his capture the
aneurysm burst and he was found in the mornings stretched upon
the floor of the cell with a Placid smile upon his face as
though he had been able, His dying moments to look back upon
a useful life and on work well done.
Gregson and lestrade will be wild about his death, Holmes
remarked as we chatted it over next evening.
Where will their grand advertisement be now?
I don't see that they had very much to do with this capture.
I answered what you do in this world is a matter of no
consequence return. My companion bitterly.
The question is, what can you make people believe that you
have done? Never mind.
He continued more brightly after a pause.
I would not have missed the investigation for anything.
There has been no better case within my recollection.
Simple. As it was, there were several
most Destructive points about it simple.
I ejaculated. Well really, it can hardly be
described as otherwise said. Sherlock Holmes.
Smiling at my surprise. The proof of its intrinsic
Simplicity. Is that without any help?
Save a few very ordinary deductions.
I was able to lay my hand upon the criminal within three days.
That is true said I I have already explained to you.
That what is out of the common is, usually a guide rather than
a hindrance in solving. A problem of this sort.
The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards that is a very
useful accomplishment and a very easy one, but people do not
practice it much in the everyday Affairs of life.
It is more useful to reason for words.
And so the other comes to be neglected, there are 50 who can
reason Typically for one new can reason analytically.
I confess said, I, I do not quite follow you.
I hardly expected that you would.
Let me see if I can make it clearer.
Most people, if you describe a train of events to them will
tell you what the result would be.
They can put those events together in their minds and
argue from them, that something will come to pass.
There are few people. However, Who if you told them
result would be able to evolve from their own inner
Consciousness, what the steps were which led up to that
result. This power is what I mean when I
talk of reasoning backwards or analytically, I understand said
I now this was a case in which you were given the result and
had to find everything else for yourself.
Now, let's me Endeavour to show you the different steps in my
reasoning to begin at the beginning.
I approached the house as you know, on foot and with my mind
entirely free from all Impressions.
I naturally began by examining the roadway and there, as I have
already explained to you. I saw clearly the marks of a
cab, which I ascertained by inquiry must have been there
during the night. I satisfied myself that it was a
cab and not a private, Carriage by The Narrow Gauge of the
wheels. The ordinary London Growler is
considerably less wide than a gentleman's Ruffin.
This was the first point gained. I then walked slowly down the
Garden Path, which happened to be composed of a clay soil,
particularly suitable for taking Impressions.
No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of
slush, but to my train dies, every Component surface had a
meaning. There is no branch of detective
science, which is so important and so much neglected as the art
of tracing footsteps, happily. I have always laid great stress
upon it and match practice has made its second nature to me.
I saw the heavy footmarks of the constables, but I saw also the
track of the two men who had first passed through the garden.
It was easy to tell that they had been before the others.
Because in places, there marks had been entirely obliterated by
the others coming upon the top of them in this way.
My second link was formed, which told me that the nocturnal
visitors were two in number one, remarkable?
For his height, as I calculated from the length of his stride
and the other fashionably dressed to judge from the small
and elegant impression left by his boots.
On entering the house. This last inference was
confirmed my well booted man. Lay before me the tall, one then
had done the murder. If murder, there was there was
no wound upon the Dead Man's person, but the agitated
expression upon his face assured me, that he had foreseen his
fate before. It came upon him man who died
from heart disease or any sudden natural cause Never by any
chance exhibit agitation upon their features having sniffed
the Dead Man's lips. I detected a slightly sour smell
and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced
upon him. Again, I argued that it had been
forced upon him from the hatred and fear expressed upon his face
by the method of exclusion. I had arrived at this result for
no other hypothesis would meet the facts, do not imagine that.
It was a very unheard of idea. The forcible administration of
poison is by no means a new thing.
In criminal animals, the cases of dulski in Odessa and of let
you re a in Montpellier will occur once to any toy.
Ecologist and now came the great question as to.
The reason why robbery had not been the object of the murder
for. Nothing was taken.
Was it politics then? Or was it a woman?
That was the question, which confronted me?
I was inclined from the first, to the latter supposition.
Political assassins are only too glad to do their work and to
fly. This murder had on the contrary
been done most deliberately and the perpetrator had left his
tracks all over the room showing that he had been there all the
time. It must be in a private wrong
and not a political one, which called for such a methodical
Revenge. When the inscription was
discovered upon the wall. I was more inclined than ever to
my opinion. The thing was too evidently a
blind when the ring was found. However, it's settled.
The question, clearly. The murderer had used it to
remind his victim of some dead or absent woman.
It was at this point that I asked Gregson, whether he had
inquired in his telegram to Cleveland as to any particular
point in mr. Drebber's, former career.
He answered you remember in the negative.
I then proceeded to make a careful examination of the room,
which confirmed me in my opinion as to the murderers, height and
furnished me with the additional details as to the tricky.
Napoli cigar and the length of his nails.
I had already come to the conclusion since.
There were no signs of a struggle that the blood, which
covered the floor had burst from the murderers nose in his
excitement. I could perceive that the track
of blood coincided with the track of his feet.
It is seldom that any man unless he is very full blooded breaks
out in this way through emotion. So I hazarded the opinion that
the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man
events, proved that I had judged correctly, having left the
house, I proceeded to do. What Gregson had neglected.
I telegraphed to the head of the people at Cleveland limiting, my
enquiry, to this circumstances, connected with the marriage of
Enoch drebber. The answer was conclusive.
It told me that drebber had already applied for the
protection of the law. Against an old rival in love
named Jefferson hope. And that this same Hope was at
present in Europe. I knew now that I held the clue
to the mystery in my hand and all that remained was to secure
the murderer. I'd already determined in my own
mind, the man who had walked into the house with drebber was
none. Other than the man who had
driven the cab the marks in the road, show me that the horse had
wondered on an in a way, which had been impossible.
Had there been anyone in charge of it, where then could the
driver be unless he were inside the house.
Again, it is absurd to have suppose that any sane man would
carry out a deliberate crime under the very eyes as it were
of a third person who was sure to betray him.
Lastly, supposing one man wish to dog another through London.
What better means? Could he adopt than to turn cab
driver? All these considerations led me
to the irresistible conclusion. That Jefferson Hope was to be
found among the Jarvis of the Metropolis.
If he had been one, there was no reason to believe that he had
ceased to be on the contrary, from his point of view.
Any Sudden Change would be likely to draw attention to
himself. He would probably for a time at
least continue to perform his duties.
There was no reason to suppose that he was going under an
assumed name. Why should he change his name in
a country? Where no one knew his original
one? I therefore organize my street,
Arab detective, Corps and sent them systematically to every cab
Proprietor in London, until a ferreted out, the man that I
wanted, how well they succeeded. And how quickly I took advantage
of it are still fresh in your recollection.
The murder of stangerson was an incident which was entirely
unexpected. But which could hardly in any
case have been prevented through it.
As you know, I came into possession of the pills.
The Distance of which I'd already surmised.
You. See the whole thing is a chain
of logical sequences without a break or floor.
It is wonderful. I cried your merits should be
publicly recognized. You should publish an account of
the case. If you won't I will for you.
You may do what you like doctor. He answered see here.
He continued. Handing a paper over to me.
Look at this. It was the echo for the day and
the paragraph to which he pointed was devoted to the case
in question. The public is said have lost a
sensational treat through the sudden death of the man.
Hope who was suspected of the murder of mr.
Enoch drebber and of mr. Joseph stangerson, the details
of the case will probably be never known.
Now, though. We are informed upon good
authority. That the crime was the result of
an old standing and romantic feud in which love and Mormonism
bore apart. It seems that both the victims
belonged in their younger days. To the Latter Day Saints.
And hope the deceased prisoner Hales also from Salt Lake City.
If the case had had no other effect.
It at least brings out in the most striking manner, the
efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve as
a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle
their Foods at home and not to carry them on to British soil.
It is an Open Secret that the credit of this smart capture
belongs entirely to the well-known Scotland Yard
officials messes lestrade and Gregson.
Some, the man was apprehended. It appears in the rooms of a
certain. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who has
himself as an amateur shown some talent, in the detective line
and who was such instructors, May hope in time to attain to
some degree of their skill. It is expected that a
testimonial of some sword will be presented to the two offices
as a fitting recognition of their services.
Didn't I tell you? So when we started cried
Sherlock, Holmes, with a laugh, that's the result of all our
study in Scarlet to get them, a testimonial.
Never mind. I answered.
I have all the facts in my journal and the public shall
know them. In the meantime.
You must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success,
like the Roman Miser. Populous may see the lat.
At me, he plowed. Oh, it's a do me.
Simil act new mosque on, Templar in ARCA.
End of book. 2 chapter 7. The end of a study in Scarlet by
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