The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 43 (1/2)
”I say that I have solved it”
”Where, then, is my wife?”
”That is a detail which I shall speedily supply”
Lord St Simon shook his head ”I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours orin a stately, old-fashi+oned ood of Lord St Si it on a level with his own,” said Sherlock Hol ”I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all this cross-questioning I had formed my conclusions as to the case before our client came into the room”
”My dear Holh none, as I remarked before, which were quite as prompt My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty Circu, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example”
”But I have heard all that you have heard”
”Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which serves me so well There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen so on very much the same lines at Munich the year after the Franco-Prussian War It is one of these cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade!
You will find an extra tuars in the box”
The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a black canvas bag in his hand With a short greeting he seated hiar which had been offered to him
”What's up, then?” asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye ”You look dissatisfied”
”And I feel dissatisfied It is this infernal St Sie case I can make neither head nor tail of the business”
”Really! You surprise me”
”Who ever heard of such a ers I have been at work upon it all day”
”And very wet it see his hand upon the ar the Serpentine”
”In heaven's name, what for?”
”In search of the body of Lady St Sihed heartily
”Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?” he asked
”Why? What do you ood a chance of finding this lady in the one as in the other”
Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion ”I suppose you know all about it,” he snarled
”Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up”
”Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in the matter?”
”I think it very unlikely”
”Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found this in it?” He opened his bag as he spoke, and tu-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in water ”There,” said he, putting a needding-ring upon the top of the pile ”There is a little nut for you to crack, Master Hols into the air