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174 A STUDY IN SCARLET. surmised. You see, the whole thing is a chain of logical sequences without a break or flaw.” “Tt is wonderful!” Icried. ‘ Your merits should be publicly recognized. You should publish an account ef 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 1n question. “The public,” it 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 never be 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 a part. It seems that both the victims . belonged, in their younger days, to the Latter-Day Saints, and Hope, the deceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City. If the case has 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 feuds 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 off Gom (C JOO KS | i