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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Well,
then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, hadanything to do with the
matter? Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Pray draw up to it, and I
shall order you a cup of hotcoffee, for I observe that you are
shivering.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shillings have notbeen so plentiful with me as they
once were, he remarked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is not cold which makes me shiver, said the
woman in a lowvoice, changing her seat as requested.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, then, do you imagine that this other one,
Henry Baker, hadanything to do with the matter? There is no communication between
them, but they all openout into the same corridor. It is probable that he will be
away allday, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. One moment, said
Holmes, are you sure about this whistle andmetallic sound?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of
thisfellow.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, then, mister, said he, with his head cocked
and his armsakimbo, what are you driving at? This is my intimate friend and
associate, Dr. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiecewith
his right hand.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tell you, all those birds thatwent to the Alpha
were town bred.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you think that this man Horner is innocent? I
might at any moment beseized and searched, and there would be the stone in my
waistcoatpocket.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This fellow will not go wrongagain; he is too
terribly frightened.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, it is of no great consequence, at any
rate.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising
agencyand have this put in the evening papers. No, no; the real name, said Holmes
sweetly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we
not done so. No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palmof your
left glove.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter
evenmore terrible than the truth.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, there are some on the stall with the
gas-flare. I should like to know who sold you thegeese which you supplied to the
Alpha. When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone andheld it against
the light. The fire looks very seasonable in this weather.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr.
Chance has put in our way a most singular andwhimsical problem, and its solution is
its own reward. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>