PART1
I was once the Doctor of Medicine of the University of London. I was once the assistant surgeon of the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers. I was once in the war. I was struck on the shoulder and had a rest. I wanted to change my lifestyle. I met Stanford by chance and asked him where I could find a cheap place to live in. And he surprisingly told me there was also another man looking for such a place——Sherlock Holmes，who was an outstanding but queer man. And I asked him to take me to see the fellow lodger. We happened to find Sherlock Holmes discovered a test which can tell out the stains are blood stains or other stains. It would be used in criminal cases. We both talked about our worst shortcomings and we both could accept them. We finally decided to share a room.
For weeks, I observed him carefully and found out which fields he was good at and which he was feeble at. At first, I thought he was as lonely as I. there would be no friends for him. But later, I found he had many acquaintances from different classes of society. I looked through an article name “The Book of Life” and I didn’t believe what the writer said. Then Sherlock Holmes told me it was he who wrote it and I was told that he was the best detective even better than my two idols Dupin and Lecoq. I was sure he was clever and also very conceited.
I thoroughly believe his capacity of detective deduction when I was told how he knew the man was a retired sergeant of Marines in such a short time. I followed Sherlock Holmes to a crime scene of the Lauriston Garden, where I met two detectives. We saw a man was dead in an empty house and we found a wedding ring on site. My companion examined for a while and then he could tell what the murderer was look like and how he murdered the man.
We got to John Rance’s house. On the way, I got to know Holmes could tell the brands of cigar according to the ashes. He also deduced how old the criminal was and how tall he was. From John Rance, we knew last night there was a drunk man who was descripted as the one whom we were looking for.
The affair was described detailly in the newspaper by the police, but the wedding ring was not mentioned at all. So Holmes made an advertisement in the “Found” column in order to draw out the murderer. But he lost catching the “old woman” who claimed the ring.
Gregson arrested a man whom he thought was the murderer. He told the course of the arrest. He went to Madame Charpentier’s house because Drebber was once their guest. Madame Charpentier said Mr. Drebber always drank and flirted with the female-servants and her daughter while his secretary Mr. Stangerson was a quiet man. Drebber behaved so badly that Madame Charpentier let them go. But in less than an hour, Drebber returned and Mrs. Charpentier’s son came back from his leaving, he quarreled with Drebber. Lestrade came and said Mr. Joseph Stangerson was murdered that morning.
Lestrade talked about what he had seen and done. Sherlock let the dog eat the halves of the pills which was put on the table where the secretary died. The dog died. Sherlock Holmes eventually knew the murderer but he couldn’t tell the two detectives to catch him to let sleeping dogs lie. Then he put the handcuffs on the cabman suddenly who he thought was the murderer.
PART2
A solitary traveler walked on the alkali plain with a little girl and their companions had all been dead. They were so thirsty, hungry and tired that they were fast asleep on the way. Fortunately, a caravan found them. They were the Mormons who had come to seek a refuge from the violent man and from the godless. Then the man and the child could be allowed to go with them subject to being believers in their own creed.
The immigrant Mormons arrived in the land and they lived their life there. John Ferrier got a piece of land and after 12 years, he became the famous and rich man in the place due to his practical turn of mind, keen in his dealings and skillful with his hands. Lucy Ferrier who was adopted by him grew up to be a beautiful and brave woman. When she rode to the city for business, she happened to meet a young fellow. After that, Jefferson Hope, the young fellow visited John Ferrier every night and the father and the daughter were both interested in him. One day, Hope said he was going to get those mines and two months later, he would ask Lucy to go with him.
John Ferrier actually was unsatisfied with Mormon doctrines because they became terrible when they turned in to persecutors from the victims. And he was not willing to let Lucy to wed a Mormon because a Morman had several wives. One day, Young came to his house and let Lucy wed one of the Mormons not a Gentile, or she committed a grievous sin. And gave him one month to think about it and gave an answer. Ferrier planned to send Hope a message and when he came, they would leave Utah.
Day by day, John was frightened by the warning paper——the allotted days every day. And he didn’t expect Hope would come. Until the night of the 29th day, Hope, the young hunter took John and Lucy away secretly with his experience. They climbed out the window in the time of the dark clouds. They walked out the garden where they got to know the countersign by accident. Then they met a solitary sentinel and they succeeded in leaving away due to the countersign.
They got to the place which Hope thought they were safe to halt and he went hunting for their food ran out leaving John Ferrier and Lucy and the horses to wait there. It was extremely difficult for him to hunt some food.
But it took him five hours to went back because all kinds of difficulties. To his grief, he arrived at the former place and found on one but John’s grave. And he was sure that Lucy had been carried back. He decided to revenge. On the way, he met Cowper whom Hope helped many times. He knew that Lucy was married to young Drebber and it was young Stangerson who killed John Ferrier. A month later, Lucy died of grief, which arose his vindictiveness. He tried to kill Drebber and Stangerson but failed. Five years later, he went back to go on his revenging but the two had left Utah. He looked for them and followed them city by city. Eventually, he succeeded in running them to earth. He told all the details. Sherlock asked him who the accomplice was, he refused to tell.
Our prisoner had an aortic aneurism and there was immediate danger, so he was allowed to tell the details before the trial. He said he followed them for a long time and it was difficult for him to take action because they two sticked together all the time. Luckily, the moment came. They were separated from each other. He had gotten a key of a house in the Brixton Road by chance before. He saw Drebber was fighting with a fellow and he jumped into my cab to run away. It was a great chance. He took him to the empty house and pushed him to choose one of the two pills. And finally Drebber ate the poisoned pill and died. Then he found Stangerson and killed him.
Hope died of the aneurism bursting before the trial, so the case was forced to be over leaving unknown details to the public. As expected, Lestrade and Gregson pocketed all the credit of this smart capture.