Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-13
Being d Recital OF the Strange Recovery of a

sofa in dressing pipe
upon the right and pile Of crumped evidently
newly studied
and on the angle of the back hung dsrepube
hard felt hat much the cracked places
lens and oeps lying the suggested
the hat had been suspended this for the
animation.
you engaged" perhaps I interrupt you"
Not at all am glad to have friend with whom dis
perfectly trivial one The ierked
his thumb direction hat points
connection with which entirely devoid of interest and
Of instruction"
seated myself my
cracking fire. sharp had
with the ice CRYSTALS IL supose remarked chat bomev
looks this deadly story
the clue which will guide in the solution Of and
the punishment OF crime"
NO 70 crime" Holmes laughing "only
OF those whimsical little incidents which will happen
100000 human beings all osng each other within the space Of
square a
humanity every possible may expected
place and many little problem will be presented which may
be striking and bizarre without being criminal We already had
experience Of SUCH"
So" remarked that of the last six cases which
have added to three have been entirely free legal
crime
precisely You aude nv attempt to recover the Irene Adler
Mary
of the lip.
this small matter will the category.
know Peterson, the commissionareT'
at him that this trophy belongs"
at is his hatT"
NO. I beg you
look upon biycoc intellectual problem.
And first to how here 1t arrived Christmas morning
in with good fat which is have doubt roasting
this About
fellow returning Publication
him he the gaslght taish walking with slight
ger and carrying white goose ung over his shoulder AS he reached
the Goodg broke between this
little knot of the latter knocked off the
hat on which he raised his stick to defend himself and swinging
his window behind him Peterson had
rushed forward protect the stranger from his asaants but the
man. shocked at having broken the window and seeing an official
looking uniform rushing him. dropped his
his vanished amid the labyrinth of small streets
which lie the back of oenham Court road The oughs had also
appearance left
of the field of battle and also the spells of victory the shape Of
this battered hat and unmpeachabe Christmas GOOSE
(Which surely he restored to their ownerT'
my fellow, problem
Henry Baker was printed upon small card which was tied to the
birds left leg and also that the initials H B. legibe
the lining of this but there thousands of Bakers
and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in this city OF ours 1t not
easy to restore lost property to any one of them"
what then. did Peterson do?"
goose
knowing that the smallest problems interest
until this when there
in spite of the slight frost would be well that should be eaten
fua the ultimate destiny of goose while continue retain the
unknown gentleman his Christmas dinner
did he not advertiser
"Then, you S o IDENTIFY"
"Only S deduce"
"FrOm his hatT
Precisely"
But you Joking What you gather
> tered feltY'
Here my lens You know my methods What can you gather
yourself individuality this arcle?
object
refu 1t was very ordinary black hat of the shape
lining
but a good name but
initials III scrawled
side the bim hasecurer but the elastic
the cracked exceedingly dusty, and
spotted places
hide them with
nothing" 1, handing back my
con the contrary. Watson everything You fail
you tmid
your differences"
"Then pray what that you infer from
peculiar
which characteristic him. 1T perhaps less suggestive than
BEEN differences
which very which
balance probability That highly intellectual
that he fairly
weodo within three although he has fallen
evil He foresight but than formerly
pointing retrogression which, with the decline
his indicate evil probably
him. This the obvious that
his wife has love him."
MY dear Holiness
retained sefrespect"
tnued, dsegarding a
sedenary life little of training entirely middle
grzed which he had within days
and which with lime These
which his Also
extremely improbable he has laid his house,
You certainly joking Holmes"
"No Is possible that when
these results you unable how they attained?
81 have doubt that very stupid that
unable follow how did deduce that
this inteIectual?'
capped hat upon right
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