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"Most certainly"

"I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, for I can hardly tell yet where I one so very long I shall have news of so of hi the Standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business "With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy," it remarked, "we have reason to believe that the matter proinally supposed Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite impossible that Mr Thaddeus Sholto could have been in any way concerned in the matter He and the housekeeper, Mrs Bernstone, were both released yesterday evening It is believed, however, that the police have a clue as to the real culprits, and that it is being prosecuted by Mr Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard, with all his well-known energy and sagacity Further arrests may be expected at any ht I "Friend Sholto is safe, at any rate I wonder what the fresh clue h it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder"

I tossed the paper down upon the table, but at that ony column It ran in this way: "Lost--Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son, Jim, left S in the steam launch Aurora, black with two red stripes, funnel black with a white band, the suive information to Mrs Smith, at Smith's Wharf, or at 221b Baker Street, as to the whereabouts of the said Mordecai S The Baker Street address was enough to prove that It struck itives without their seeing in ithusband

It was a long day Every time that a knock cained that it was either Hol or an answer to his advertisehts would wander off to our strange quest and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair ere pursuing Could there be, I wondered, soht he be suffering froe self-deception? Was it not possible that his nimble and speculative mind had built up this wild theory upon faulty pre; and yet the keenest reasoner ht, to fall into error through the over-refineic,--his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a plainer and more commonplace one lay ready to his hand Yet, on the other hand, I had myself seen the evidence, and I had heard the reasons for his deductions When I looked back on the long chain of curious circu in the sauise from myself that even if Holmes's explanation were incorrect the true theory