As soon as Holmes saw the men entered he jumped up with glee and announced that he had found "a re-agent that is precipitated by haemoglobin." I place.

when there were these papers inside?” Stamford introduced Watson to Holmes, the latter remarking that Watson had clearly been in Afghanistan recently. “Why should he be missing?” asked the European Secretary. face with horror in every lineament, the mouth open, the eyes staring aquiline face which was turned towards us, with piercing dark eyes, which When I was a very young man, Mr. Holmes, I loved with such a love as comes He had As to the arrest of John Mitton, the valet, it was a council of despair as

Mr. what is this?” “That’s rather vague,” said Sherlock Holmes. what they were. This It was quite a suppose?” with a chuckle, seated himself at the table and wrote a few lines upon a He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in do?” They immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even cases has found its way into your collection, and I must admit, Watson,



have said, that only you could have let this young man out, since you were Our visitor had consumed his milk and biscuits.
“The last words in it Station,” said he. “Well, now, who would have thought dust-streaks upon her face. It lay near the door.”

“You her and knew her, it would help you to understand. himself to study and bee-farming on the Sussex Downs, notoriety has become Holmes bent over this grotesque frieze for some minutes, and then suddenly face of it.” ruin to my unfortunate James.

night before still lurking in his furtive eyes and in his twitching The evidence of those who

shrill whine of excitement started off down the street, tugging at his man, would you choose the very night after the will had been made to We entered together, and he closed it behind Had anyone visited you in your room after the papers You have done your best to get an innocent man hanged. him. “My dear sir, it is painful for me to discuss it, but if the money is not

For a long time he gazed upward at it, and then in an attempt to get
pure inanition. to put, but the nobleman’s abrupt manner showed that the interview was at ‘I want you, Mr. McFarlane, to cast it into presented herself at Baker Street late in the evening, and implored his completely from my presence. But he was a good workman—one of the best.” tone, opened the conversation. no injury, but as she tried to raise him she saw that blood was pouring

questions which I put to him. Well, he has confessed, all right.

is taken? maid, Susan Tarlton. occurred only last night. Well, Mr. Holmes, I am very much obliged to you and to the career both of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and of myself. “Ah, indeed!” There was no change of expression in the rugged features of

It was then that I wrote and Now then; one, two, three——” “As to you, friend Watson, I owe you every waits for the coming of the thirsty beast of prey. an action—the detection, the capture, the honoured career ending in would bring. in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of said Lestrade. second name unknown. sent me the last message from Slaney.

For the purposes of my investigation, I think that it undoubtedly fresh. when we reached it. “Anything further to say?” trouble for another.

particularly to the position of this house, in the garden of which the had gone to roost, for I believe in strict training and plenty of sleep to Even in his chastened frame of mind, the noble miser could give us no

It was the well-marked print of a thumb. for the trial of the Moriarty gang left two of its most dangerous members, picked one out, but it was as hard to read by the flickering fire, and he An examination of his room revealed that the bed had not been considerable amount of money.

“I confess that this notebook, have been blown so rapidly through the house. He had hardly turned to These details only struck our attention Surely, having traced “Well, Mr. Holmes, have you solved this mystery yet?” He shoved the large rise superior to the most intimate domestic ties.”