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"
Now
this
was
a
case
in
which
you
were
given
the
result
and
had
to
find
everything
else
for
yourself
.
Now
let
me
endeavour
to
show
you
the
different
steps
in
my
reasoning
.
To
begin
at
the
beginning
.
I
approached
the
house
,
as
you
know
,
on
foot
,
and
with
my
mind
entirely
free
from
all
impressions
.
I
naturally
began
by
examining
the
roadway
,
and
there
,
as
I
have
already
explained
to
you
,
I
saw
clearly
the
marks
of
a
cab
,
which
,
I
ascertained
by
inquiry
,
must
have
been
there
during
the
night
.
I
satisfied
myself
that
it
was
a
cab
and
not
a
private
carriage
by
the
narrow
gauge
of
the
wheels
.
The
ordinary
London
growler
is
considerably
less
wide
than
a
gentleman
's
brougham
.
"
This
was
the
first
point
gained
.
I
then
walked
slowly
down
the
garden
path
,
which
happened
to
be
composed
of
a
clay
soil
,
peculiarly
suitable
for
taking
impressions
.
No
doubt
it
appeared
to
you
to
be
a
mere
trampled
line
of
slush
,
but
to
my
trained
eyes
every
mark
upon
its
surface
had
a
meaning
.
There
is
no
branch
of
detective
science
which
is
so
important
and
so
much
neglected
as
the
art
of
tracing
footsteps
.
Happily
,
I
have
always
laid
great
stress
upon
it
,
and
much
practice
has
made
it
second
nature
to
me
.
I
saw
the
heavy
footmarks
of
the
constables
,
but
I
saw
also
the
track
of
the
two
men
who
had
first
passed
through
the
garden
.
It
was
easy
to
tell
that
they
had
been
before
the
others
,
because
in
places
their
marks
had
been
entirely
obliterated
by
the
others
coming
upon
the
top
of
them
.
In
this
way
my
second
link
was
formed
,
which
told
me
that
the
nocturnal
visitors
were
two
in
number
,
one
remarkable
for
his
height
(
as
I
calculated
from
the
length
of
his
stride
)
,
and
the
other
fashionably
dressed
,
to
judge
from
the
small
and
elegant
impression
left
by
his
boots
.
"
On
entering
the
house
this
last
inference
was
confirmed
.
My
well-booted
man
lay
before
me
.
The
tall
one
,
then
,
had
done
the
murder
,
if
murder
there
was
.
There
was
no
wound
upon
the
dead
man
's
person
,
but
the
agitated
expression
upon
his
face
assured
me
that
he
had
foreseen
his
fate
before
it
came
upon
him
.
Men
who
die
from
heart
disease
,
or
any
sudden
natural
cause
,
never
by
any
chance
exhibit
agitation
upon
their
features
.
Having
sniffed
the
dead
man
's
lips
I
detected
a
slightly
sour
smell
,
and
I
came
to
the
conclusion
that
he
had
had
poison
forced
upon
him
.
Again
,
I
argued
that
it
had
been
forced
upon
him
from
the
hatred
and
fear
expressed
upon
his
face
.
By
the
method
of
exclusion
,
I
had
arrived
at
this
result
,
for
no
other
hypothesis
would
meet
the
facts
.
Do
not
imagine
that
it
was
a
very
unheard
of
idea
.
The
forcible
administration
of
poison
is
by
no
means
a
new
thing
in
criminal
annals
.
The
cases
of
Dolsky
in
Odessa
,
and
of
Leturier
in
Montpellier
,
will
occur
at
once
to
any
toxicologist
.
"
And
now
came
the
great
question
as
to
the
reason
why
.
Robbery
had
not
been
the
object
of
the
murder
,
for
nothing
was
taken
.
Was
it
politics
,
then
,
or
was
it
a
woman
?
That
was
the
question
which
confronted
me
.
I
was
inclined
from
the
first
to
the
latter
supposition
.
Political
assassins
are
only
too
glad
to
do
their
work
and
to
fly
.
This
murder
had
,
on
the
contrary
,
been
done
most
deliberately
,
and
the
perpetrator
had
left
his
tracks
all
over
the
room
,
showing
that
he
had
been
there
all
the
time
.
It
must
have
been
a
private
wrong
,
and
not
a
political
one
,
which
called
for
such
a
methodical
revenge
.
When
the
inscription
was
discovered
upon
the
wall
I
was
more
inclined
than
ever
to
my
opinion
.
The
thing
was
too
evidently
a
blind
.
When
the
ring
was
found
,
however
,
it
settled
the
question
.
Clearly
the
murderer
had
used
it
to
remind
his
victim
of
some
dead
or
absent
woman
.
It
was
at
this
point
that
I
asked
Gregson
whether
he
had
enquired
in
his
telegram
to
Cleveland
as
to
any
particular
point
in
Mr.
Drebber
's
former
career
.
He
answered
,
you
remember
,
in
the
negative
.
"
I
then
proceeded
to
make
a
careful
examination
of
the
room
,
which
confirmed
me
in
my
opinion
as
to
the
murderer
's
height
,
and
furnished
me
with
the
additional
details
as
to
the
Trichinopoly
cigar
and
the
length
of
his
nails
.
I
had
already
come
to
the
conclusion
,
since
there
were
no
signs
of
a
struggle
,
that
the
blood
which
covered
the
floor
had
burst
from
the
murderer
's
nose
in
his
excitement
.
I
could
perceive
that
the
track
of
blood
coincided
with
the
track
of
his
feet
.
It
is
seldom
that
any
man
,
unless
he
is
very
full-blooded
,
breaks
out
in
this
way
through
emotion
,
so
I
hazarded
the
opinion
that
the
criminal
was
probably
a
robust
and
ruddy-faced
man
.
Events
proved
that
I
had
judged
correctly
.
"
Having
left
the
house
,
I
proceeded
to
do
what
Gregson
had
neglected
.
I
telegraphed
to
the
head
of
the
police
at
Cleveland
,
limiting
my
enquiry
to
the
circumstances
connected
with
the
marriage
of
Enoch
Drebber
.
The
answer
was
conclusive
.
It
told
me
that
Drebber
had
already
applied
for
the
protection
of
the
law
against
an
old
rival
in
love
,
named
Jefferson
Hope
,
and
that
this
same
Hope
was
at
present
in
Europe
.
I
knew
now
that
I
held
the
clue
to
the
mystery
in
my
hand
,
and
all
that
remained
was
to
secure
the
murderer
.
"
I
had
already
determined
in
my
own
mind
that
the
man
who
had
walked
into
the
house
with
Drebber
,
was
none
other
than
the
man
who
had
driven
the
cab
.
The
marks
in
the
road
showed
me
that
the
horse
had
wandered
on
in
a
way
which
would
have
been
impossible
had
there
been
anyone
in
charge
of
it
.
Where
,
then
,
could
the
driver
be
,
unless
he
were
inside
the
house
?
Again
,
it
is
absurd
to
suppose
that
any
sane
man
would
carry
out
a
deliberate
crime
under
the
very
eyes
,
as
it
were
,
of
a
third
person
,
who
was
sure
to
betray
him
.
Lastly
,
supposing
one
man
wished
to
dog
another
through
London
,
what
better
means
could
he
adopt
than
to
turn
cabdriver
.
All
these
considerations
led
me
to
the
irresistible
conclusion
that
Jefferson
Hope
was
to
be
found
among
the
jarveys
of
the
Metropolis
.
