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"
Naturally
,
the
coachman
's
first
thought
,
on
finding
that
he
could
do
nothing
for
his
master
,
was
to
open
the
door
.
But
here
an
unexpected
and
singular
difficulty
presented
itself
.
The
key
was
not
in
the
inner
side
of
the
door
,
nor
could
he
find
it
anywhere
in
the
room
.
He
went
out
again
,
therefore
,
through
the
window
,
and
,
having
obtained
the
help
of
a
policeman
and
of
a
medical
man
,
he
returned
.
The
lady
,
against
whom
naturally
the
strongest
suspicion
rested
,
was
removed
to
her
room
,
still
in
a
state
of
insensibility
.
The
colonel
's
body
was
then
placed
upon
the
sofa
and
a
careful
examination
made
of
the
scene
of
the
tragedy
.
"
The
injury
from
which
the
unfortunate
veteran
was
suffering
was
found
to
be
a
jagged
cut
some
two
inches
long
at
the
back
part
of
his
head
,
which
had
evidently
been
caused
by
a
violent
blow
from
a
blunt
weapon
.
Nor
was
it
difficult
to
guess
what
that
weapon
may
have
been
.
Upon
the
floor
,
close
to
the
body
,
was
lying
a
singular
club
of
hard
carved
wood
with
a
bone
handle
.
The
colonel
possessed
a
varied
collection
of
weapons
brought
from
the
different
countries
in
which
he
had
fought
,
and
it
is
conjectured
by
the
police
that
this
club
was
among
his
trophies
.
The
servants
deny
having
seen
it
before
,
but
among
the
numerous
curiosities
in
the
house
it
is
possible
that
it
may
have
been
overlooked
.
Nothing
else
of
importance
was
discovered
in
the
room
by
the
police
,
save
the
inexplicable
fact
that
neither
upon
Mrs.
Barclay
's
person
nor
upon
that
of
the
victim
nor
in
any
part
of
the
room
was
the
missing
key
to
be
found
.
The
door
had
eventually
to
be
opened
by
a
locksmith
from
Aldershot
.
"
That
was
the
state
of
things
,
Watson
,
when
upon
the
Tuesday
morning
I
,
at
the
request
of
Major
Murphy
,
went
down
to
Aldershot
to
supplement
the
efforts
of
the
police
.
I
think
that
you
will
acknowledge
that
the
problem
was
already
one
of
interest
,
but
my
observations
soon
made
me
realize
that
it
was
in
truth
much
more
extraordinary
than
would
at
first
sight
appear
.
"
Before
examining
the
room
I
cross-questioned
the
servants
,
but
only
succeeded
in
eliciting
the
facts
which
I
have
already
stated
.
One
other
detail
of
interest
was
remembered
by
Jane
Stewart
,
the
housemaid
.
You
will
remember
that
on
hearing
the
sound
of
the
quarrel
she
descended
and
returned
with
the
other
servants
.
On
that
first
occasion
,
when
she
was
alone
,
she
says
that
the
voices
of
her
master
and
mistress
were
sunk
so
low
that
she
could
hardly
hear
anything
,
and
judged
by
their
tones
rather
than
their
words
that
they
had
fallen
out
.
On
my
pressing
her
,
however
,
she
remembered
that
she
heard
the
word
David
uttered
twice
by
the
lady
.
The
point
is
of
the
utmost
importance
as
guiding
us
towards
the
reason
of
the
sudden
quarrel
.
The
colonel
's
name
,
you
remember
,
was
James
.
"
There
was
one
thing
in
the
case
which
had
made
the
deepest
impression
both
upon
the
servants
and
the
police
.
This
was
the
contortion
of
the
colonel
's
face
.
It
had
set
,
according
to
their
account
,
into
the
most
dreadful
expression
of
fear
and
horror
which
a
human
countenance
is
capable
of
assuming
.
More
than
one
person
fainted
at
the
mere
sight
of
him
,
so
terrible
was
the
effect
.
It
was
quite
certain
that
he
had
foreseen
his
fate
,
and
that
it
had
caused
him
the
utmost
horror
.
This
,
of
course
,
fitted
in
well
enough
with
the
police
theory
,
if
the
colonel
could
have
seen
his
wife
making
a
murderous
attack
upon
him
.
Nor
was
the
fact
of
the
wound
being
on
the
back
of
his
head
a
fatal
objection
to
this
,
as
he
might
have
turned
to
avoid
the
blow
.
No
information
could
be
got
from
the
lady
herself
,
who
was
temporarily
insane
from
an
acute
attack
of
brain-fever
.
"
From
the
police
I
learned
that
Miss
Morrison
,
who
you
remember
went
out
that
evening
with
Mrs.
Barclay
,
denied
having
any
knowledge
of
what
it
was
which
had
caused
the
ill-humour
in
which
her
companion
had
returned
.
"
Having
gathered
these
facts
,
Watson
,
I
smoked
several
pipes
over
them
,
trying
to
separate
those
which
were
crucial
from
others
which
were
merely
incidental
.
There
could
be
no
question
that
the
most
distinctive
and
suggestive
point
in
the
case
was
the
singular
disappearance
of
the
door-key
.
A
most
careful
search
had
failed
to
discover
it
in
the
room
.
Therefore
it
must
have
been
taken
from
it
.
But
neither
the
colonel
nor
the
colonel
's
wife
could
have
taken
it
.
That
was
perfectly
clear
.
Therefore
a
third
person
must
have
entered
the
room
.
And
that
third
person
could
only
have
come
in
through
the
window
.
It
seemed
to
me
that
a
careful
examination
of
the
room
and
the
lawn
might
possibly
reveal
some
traces
of
this
mysterious
individual
.
You
know
my
methods
,
Watson
.
There
was
not
one
of
them
which
I
did
not
apply
to
the
inquiry
.
And
it
ended
by
my
discovering
traces
,
but
very
different
ones
from
those
which
I
had
expected
.
There
had
been
a
man
in
the
room
,
and
he
had
crossed
the
lawn
coming
from
the
road
.
I
was
able
to
obtain
five
very
clear
impressions
of
his
footmarks
:
one
in
the
roadway
itself
,
at
the
point
where
he
had
climbed
the
low
wall
,
two
on
the
lawn
,
and
two
very
faint
ones
upon
the
stained
boards
near
the
window
where
he
had
entered
.
He
had
apparently
rushed
across
the
lawn
,
for
his
toe-marks
were
much
deeper
than
his
heels
.
But
it
was
not
the
man
who
surprised
me
.
It
was
his
companion
.
"
