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"
The
horse
!
"
cried
both
the
colonel
and
myself
.
"
Yes
,
the
horse
.
And
it
may
lessen
his
guilt
if
I
say
that
it
was
done
in
self-defence
,
and
that
John
Straker
was
a
man
who
was
entirely
unworthy
of
your
confidence
.
But
there
goes
the
bell
,
and
as
I
stand
to
win
a
little
on
this
next
race
,
I
shall
defer
a
lengthy
explanation
until
a
more
fitting
time
.
"
We
had
the
corner
of
a
Pullman
car
to
ourselves
that
evening
as
we
whirled
back
to
London
,
and
I
fancy
that
the
journey
was
a
short
one
to
Colonel
Ross
as
well
as
to
myself
as
we
listened
to
our
companion
's
narrative
of
the
events
which
had
occurred
at
the
Dartmoor
training-stables
upon
that
Monday
night
,
and
the
means
by
which
he
had
unravelled
them
.
"
I
confess
,
"
said
he
,
"
that
any
theories
which
I
had
formed
from
the
newspaper
reports
were
entirely
erroneous
.
And
yet
there
were
indications
there
,
had
they
not
been
overlaid
by
other
details
which
concealed
their
true
import
.
I
went
to
Devonshire
with
the
conviction
that
Fitzroy
Simpson
was
the
true
culprit
,
although
,
of
course
,
I
saw
that
the
evidence
against
him
was
by
no
means
complete
.
It
was
while
I
was
in
the
carriage
,
just
as
we
reached
the
trainer
's
house
,
that
the
immense
significance
of
the
curried
mutton
occurred
to
me
.
You
may
remember
that
I
was
distrait
and
remained
sitting
after
you
had
all
alighted
.
I
was
marvelling
in
my
own
mind
how
I
could
possibly
have
overlooked
so
obvious
a
clue
.
"
"
I
confess
,
"
said
the
colonel
,
"
that
even
now
I
can
not
see
how
it
helps
us
.
"
"
It
was
the
first
link
in
my
chain
of
reasoning
.
Powdered
opium
is
by
no
means
tasteless
.
The
flavour
is
not
disagreeable
,
but
it
is
perceptible
.
Were
it
mixed
with
any
ordinary
dish
the
eater
would
undoubtedly
detect
it
and
would
probably
eat
no
more
.
A
curry
was
exactly
the
medium
which
would
disguise
this
taste
.
By
no
possible
supposition
could
this
stranger
,
Fitzroy
Simpson
,
have
caused
curry
to
be
served
in
the
trainer
's
family
that
night
,
and
it
is
surely
too
monstrous
a
coincidence
to
suppose
that
he
happened
to
come
along
with
powdered
opium
upon
the
very
night
when
a
dish
happened
to
be
served
which
would
disguise
the
flavour
.
That
is
unthinkable
.
Therefore
Simpson
becomes
eliminated
from
the
case
,
and
our
attention
centres
upon
Straker
and
his
wife
,
the
only
two
people
who
could
have
chosen
curried
mutton
for
supper
that
night
.
The
opium
was
added
after
the
dish
was
set
aside
for
the
stable-boy
,
for
the
others
had
the
same
for
supper
with
no
ill
effects
.
Which
of
them
,
then
,
had
access
to
that
dish
without
the
maid
seeing
them
?
"
Before
deciding
that
question
I
had
grasped
the
significance
of
the
silence
of
the
dog
,
for
one
true
inference
invariably
suggests
others
.
The
Simpson
incident
had
shown
me
that
a
dog
was
kept
in
the
stables
,
and
yet
,
though
someone
had
been
in
and
had
fetched
out
a
horse
,
he
had
not
barked
enough
to
arouse
the
two
lads
in
the
loft
.
Obviously
the
midnight
visitor
was
someone
whom
the
dog
knew
well
.
"
I
was
already
convinced
,
or
almost
convinced
,
that
John
Straker
went
down
to
the
stables
in
the
dead
of
the
night
and
took
out
Silver
Blaze
.
For
what
purpose
?
For
a
dishonest
one
,
obviously
,
or
why
should
he
drug
his
own
stable-boy
?
And
yet
I
was
at
a
loss
to
know
why
.
There
have
been
cases
before
now
where
trainers
have
made
sure
of
great
sums
of
money
by
laying
against
their
own
horses
through
agents
and
then
preventing
them
from
winning
by
fraud
.
Sometimes
it
is
a
pulling
jockey
.
Sometimes
it
is
some
surer
and
subtler
means
.
What
was
it
here
?
I
hoped
that
the
contents
of
his
pockets
might
help
me
to
form
a
conclusion
.
