Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-19
Dr. Leslie Armstrong.

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 ther dog nor man liked the look of my Nstick. however. and the matter fell through. All that I have learned l got from friendly native in the yard of our own inn. It was he who told me of the doctors habits and of 1. his daily journey. At that instant, to give point to his words, the carriage 2 came round to the door"
 5 .'Could you not follow it?'
 Excellent, Watson. You are scin- tillating this evening. The idea did : cross my mind. There is, as you may have observed, a bicycle shop next to our inn. Into this I rushed, engaged a bicycle and was able to get started be- l: fore the carriage was quite out of !. sight I rapidly overlook it, and then, keeping at a discreet distance of hun ,!dred yards or so, I followed its lights until we were clear of the town. We had got well out on the country road when a somewhat mortifying incident . occurred. The carriage stopped, the . doctor alighted. walked swiftly back to where 1 had halted and told me in an excellent sardonic fashion that he fear ed the road was narrow and that he hoped his carriage did not impede the , passage of my bicycle. Nothing could have been more admirable than his way of putting it. I at once rode past the carriage, and. keeping to the main . I fnr u farts TDi1nc and [ then halted in a convenient place to see if the carriage passed. There was { no sign of ii, however. and so 1t be- icame evident that it had turned down one of several side roads which I had observed. l rode back. but again saw nothing of the carriage. and now. as you perceive. il has returned after me Of course l had at the outset no par ticular reason to connect these jour lneys with the disappearance of God frey Staunton and was only inclined to investigate them on the general grounds that everything which con cerns DT Armstrong is at present of interest to us. but now that l find he keeps so keen a lookout upon any one 5 who may follow him on these excur- sions the affair appears more impor- tant. and I shall not be satisfied until l have made ihe matter clear"
 "We can follow him tomorrow" Can we: Ii Is uOt so easy as you seem to think. You are not familiar s=rith CEmbridgeshire. are you2 Ii does -zot lend itseIf tn concealnent. All this country that passed over tonight is as fat as thc palm of your hand. and the man v-c arc following is no fool. as he very clearly showed tonight I have wired to OveTton to lei Us know any fresh London developments al this ad- dress. and in the meantime we can only concentrate our attention upon pr. ArnstrUaE- whose name the obliging young lady at the office allowed me to read upon the c0unte rfUil of Stsunton's urgent message. He knows where the young man is-to that I'll svear-and if he knows. then it must be our own fault fl we cannot manage to know also Al present it must be admitted that the odd trick is in his possession. and. ss y6H are aware Watson. it Is not ny habit to leave the game in that coalition
 And yet the next day brought us no nearer t0 tie solution of the mystery. A note wss handed in after breakfast which Holmes passed across to me with a smile IL ran as follows:
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