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Holmes held up the paper so that the sunlight shone full upon it. That's why I want to sift the matter to the bottom.' She says nothing, but I can see terror in her eyes. Why should you attribute any importance to so grotesque an object?' It consists of a number of absurd little figures dancing across the paper upon which they are drawn. 'At first sight it would appear to be some childish prank. 'It is certainly rather a curious production,' said Holmes. I sent the paper on ahead, so that you might have time to study it before I came.' 'They told me that you were fond of queer mysteries, and I don't think you can find a queerer one than that. Holmes, what do you make of these?' he cried. Having shaken hands with each of us, he was about to sit down, when his eye rested upon the paper with the curious markings, which I had just examined and left upon the table.

He seemed to bring a whiff of his strong, fresh, bracing, east-coast air with him as he entered. I should not be very much surprised if this were he.'ДЄ heavy step was heard upon the stairs, and an instant later there entered a tall, ruddy, clean-shaven gentleman, whose clear eyes and florid cheeks told of a life led far from the fogs of Baker Street. This little conundrum came by the first post, and he was to follow by the next train. Hilton Cubitt, of Riding Thorpe Manor, Norfolk, is very anxious to know. 'Why, Holmes, it is a child's drawing,' I cried. I looked with amazement at the absurd hieroglyphics upon the paper. See what you can make of that, friend Watson.' He tossed a sheet of paper upon the table, and turned once more to his chemical analysis. 'Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you. You do not propose to invest your money in this manner.' Your check book is locked in my drawer, and you have not asked for the key. You told me, four weeks ago, that Thurston had an option on some South African property which would expire in a month, and which he desired you to share with him. You never play billiards except with Thurston. You put chalk there when you play billiards, to steady the cue. You had chalk between your left finger and thumb when you returned from the club last night. Here are the missing links of the very simple chain: 1.

'Very likely not but I can quickly show you a close connection. Now, it was not really difficult, by an inspection of the groove between your left forefinger and thumb, to feel sure that you did NOT propose to invest your small capital in the gold fields.' If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect.

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'You see, my dear Watson' - he propped his test-tube in the rack, and began to lecture with the air of a professor addressing his class -'it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. 'I am sure that I shall say nothing of the kind.' 'Because in five minutes you will say that it is all so absurdly simple.' 'I ought to make you sign a paper to that effect.' 'Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback,' said he. He wheeled round upon his stool, with a steaming test-tube in his hand, and a gleam of amusement in his deep-set eyes. 'How on earth do you know that?' I asked. Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable. 'So, Watson,' said he, suddenly, 'you do not propose to invest in South African securities?'

His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot. Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product.