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"
The
two
lads
who
slept
in
the
chaff-cutting
loft
above
the
harness-room
were
quickly
aroused
.
They
had
heard
nothing
during
the
night
,
for
they
are
both
sound
sleepers
.
Hunter
was
obviously
under
the
influence
of
some
powerful
drug
,
and
as
no
sense
could
be
got
out
of
him
,
he
was
left
to
sleep
it
off
while
the
two
lads
and
the
two
women
ran
out
in
search
of
the
absentees
.
They
still
had
hopes
that
the
trainer
had
for
some
reason
taken
out
the
horse
for
early
exercise
,
but
on
ascending
the
knoll
near
the
house
,
from
which
all
the
neighbouring
moors
were
visible
,
they
not
only
could
see
no
signs
of
the
missing
favourite
,
but
they
perceived
something
which
warned
them
that
they
were
in
the
presence
of
a
tragedy
.
"
About
a
quarter
of
a
mile
from
the
stables
John
Straker
's
overcoat
was
flapping
from
a
furze-bush
.
Immediately
beyond
there
was
a
bowl-shaped
depression
in
the
moor
,
and
at
the
bottom
of
this
was
found
the
dead
body
of
the
unfortunate
trainer
.
His
head
had
been
shattered
by
a
savage
blow
from
some
heavy
weapon
,
and
he
was
wounded
on
the
thigh
,
where
there
was
a
long
,
clean
cut
,
inflicted
evidently
by
some
very
sharp
instrument
.
It
was
clear
,
however
,
that
Straker
had
defended
himself
vigorously
against
his
assailants
,
for
in
his
right
hand
he
held
a
small
knife
,
which
was
clotted
with
blood
up
to
the
handle
,
while
in
his
left
he
clasped
a
red
and
black
silk
cravat
,
which
was
recognized
by
the
maid
as
having
been
worn
on
the
preceding
evening
by
the
stranger
who
had
visited
the
stables
.
Hunter
,
on
recovering
from
his
stupor
,
was
also
quite
positive
as
to
the
ownership
of
the
cravat
.
He
was
equally
certain
that
the
same
stranger
had
,
while
standing
at
the
window
,
drugged
his
curried
mutton
,
and
so
deprived
the
stables
of
their
watchman
.
As
to
the
missing
horse
,
there
were
abundant
proofs
in
the
mud
which
lay
at
the
bottom
of
the
fatal
hollow
that
he
had
been
there
at
the
time
of
the
struggle
.
But
from
that
morning
he
has
disappeared
,
and
although
a
large
reward
has
been
offered
,
and
all
the
gypsies
of
Dartmoor
are
on
the
alert
,
no
news
has
come
of
him
.
Finally
,
an
analysis
has
shown
that
the
remains
of
his
supper
left
by
the
stable-lad
contained
an
appreciable
quantity
of
powdered
opium
,
while
the
people
at
the
house
partook
of
the
same
dish
on
the
same
night
without
any
ill
effect
.
"
Those
are
the
main
facts
of
the
case
,
stripped
of
all
surmise
,
and
stated
as
baldly
as
possible
.
I
shall
now
recapitulate
what
the
police
have
done
in
the
matter
.
"
Inspector
Gregory
,
to
whom
the
case
has
been
committed
,
is
an
extremely
competent
officer
.
Were
he
but
gifted
with
imagination
he
might
rise
to
great
heights
in
his
profession
.
On
his
arrival
he
promptly
found
and
arrested
the
man
upon
whom
suspicion
naturally
rested
.
There
was
little
difficulty
in
finding
him
,
for
he
inhabited
one
of
those
villas
which
I
have
mentioned
.
His
name
,
it
appears
,
was
Fitzroy
Simpson
.
He
was
a
man
of
excellent
birth
and
education
,
who
had
squandered
a
fortune
upon
the
turf
,
and
who
lived
now
by
doing
a
little
quiet
and
genteel
book-making
in
the
sporting
clubs
of
London
.
An
examination
of
his
betting-book
shows
that
bets
to
the
amount
of
five
thousand
pounds
had
been
registered
by
him
against
the
favourite
.
On
being
arrested
he
volunteered
the
statement
that
he
had
come
down
to
Dartmoor
in
the
hope
of
getting
some
information
about
the
King
's
Pyland
horses
,
and
also
about
Desborough
,
the
second
favourite
,
which
was
in
charge
of
Silas
Brown
at
the
Mapleton
stables
.
He
did
not
attempt
to
deny
that
he
had
acted
as
described
upon
the
evening
before
,
but
declared
that
he
had
no
sinister
designs
and
had
simply
wished
to
obtain
first-hand
information
.
When
confronted
with
his
cravat
he
turned
very
pale
and
was
utterly
unable
to
account
for
its
presence
in
the
hand
of
the
murdered
man
.
His
wet
clothing
showed
that
he
had
been
out
in
the
storm
of
the
night
before
,
and
his
stick
,
which
was
a
penang
lawyer
weighted
with
lead
,
was
just
such
a
weapon
as
might
,
by
repeated
blows
,
have
inflicted
the
terrible
injuries
to
which
the
trainer
had
succumbed
.
On
the
other
hand
,
there
was
no
wound
upon
his
person
,
while
the
state
of
Straker
's
knife
would
show
that
one
at
least
of
his
assailants
must
bear
his
mark
upon
him
.
There
you
have
it
all
in
a
nutshell
,
Watson
,
and
if
you
can
give
me
any
light
I
shall
be
infinitely
obliged
to
you
.
"
I
had
listened
with
the
greatest
interest
to
the
statement
which
Holmes
,
with
characteristic
clearness
,
had
laid
before
me
.
Though
most
of
the
facts
were
familiar
to
me
,
I
had
not
sufficiently
appreciated
their
relative
importance
,
nor
their
connection
to
each
other
.
"
Is
it
not
possible
,
"
I
suggested
,
"
that
the
incised
wound
upon
Straker
may
have
been
caused
by
his
own
knife
in
the
convulsive
struggles
which
follow
any
brain
injury
?
"
"
It
is
more
than
possible
;
it
is
probable
,
"
said
Holmes
.
"
In
that
case
one
of
the
main
points
in
favour
of
the
accused
disappears
.
"
