Part 2 chapter 7 of a study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Part two chapter 7, the 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 Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle read by David. Clarke website BG, David dot wordpress.com, www.mooji.org net and email, David @bg coffee dotnet. Thank you for listening.