pipe behind him which he evidently highly how do you know that he it highly i asked well i should put the original cost of the by the yellow face pipe at seven and sixpence now it has you see been twice mended once in the wooden stem and once in the each of these done as you observe with silver bands must have more than the pipe did originally the man must value the pipe highly when he prefers to patch it up rather than buy a new one with the same money anything else i asked for was turning the pipe about in his hand and staring at it in his peculiar pensive way he held it up and tapped on it with his long thin forefinger as a professor might who was on a bone pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest said he nothing has more individuality save perhaps watches and the indications here however are neither very marked nor very important the owner is obviously a muscular man left handed with an excellent set of teeth careless in his habits and with no need to practice economy my friend threw out the information in a very by of off hand way but i saw that he cocked his eye at me to see if i had followed his reasoning you think a man must be well to do if he a seven shilling pipe said l this is mixture at an answered knocking a little out on his palm as he might get an excellent smoke for half the price he has no need to practise economy and the other points he has been in the habit of lighting his pipe at lamps and gas you can see that it is quite all down one side of course a match could not have done that why should a man hold a match to the side of his pipe but you cannot light it at a lamp without getting the bowl and it is all on the right side of the pipe from that i gather that he is a left handed man you hold your own pipe to the lamp and see how naturally you being right handed hold the left side to the flame you might do it once the other way but not as a constancy this has always been held so then he has bitten through his it by the yellow face takes a muscular energetic fellow and one with a good set of teeth to do that but if i am not mistaken i hear him upon the stair so we shall have something more interesting than his pipe to study an instant later our door opened and a tall young man entered the room he was well but quietly dressed in a dark grey suit and carried a brown wide awake in his hand i should have put him at about thirty though he was really some years older i beg your pardon said he with some embarrassment i suppose i should have knocked yes of course i should have knocked the fact is that i am a little upset and you must put it all down to that he passed his hand over his forehead like a man who is half dazed and then fell rather than sat down upon a chair i can see that you have not slept for a night or two said in his easy genial way that tries a man s nerves more than work and more even than pleasure may i ask how i can help i wanted your advice sir i don t know what by of to do and my whole life seems to have gone to pieces you wish to employ me as a consulting not that only i want your opinion as a judicious man � as a man of the world i want to know what i ought to do next i hope to god you ll be able to tell me he spoke in little sharp and it seemed to me that to speak at all was very painful to him and that his will all through was his inclinations it s a very delicate thing said he one does not like to speak of one s domestic affairs to strangers it seems dreadful to discuss the conduct of one s wife with two men whom i have never seen before it s horrible to have to do it but i ve got to the end of my and i must have advice my dear mr grant began our visitor sprang from his chair what he cried you know my name if you wish to preserve your said by the yellow face smiling i should suggest that you cease to write your name upon the of your hat or else that you turn the crown towards the person whom you are addressing i was about to say tliat my friend and i have listened to many strange secrets in this room and that we have had the good fortune to bring peace to many troubled souls i trust that we may do as much for you might i beg you as time may prove to be of importance to furnish me with the facts of your case without further delay our visitor again passed his hand over his forehead as if he found it bitterly hard from every gesture and expression i could see that he was a reserved self contained man with a dash of pride in his nature more likely to hide his wounds than to expose them then suddenly with a fierce gesture of his closed hand like one who throws reserve to the winds he began the facts are these mr said he i am a married man and have been so for three years during that time my wife and i have loved by of each other as fondly and lived as happily 