The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-24

Mary Jane, she is incOrrlSlbJe. ana
my wife has given her notice; gut
there again, / fail to see how YOU
WorK it out"
lie cEuckled to himself and rub
bed his long nervous hands to2eth-
er.
1T is simplicity ITSELF" said he,
my eyes tell me that on the INSIDE
Of your left shoe, just where the fire.
light strikes it, the leather is scored
by six almost paral'eled cuts Oh
v~lously they have been caused by
some one who mas very c2rciessly
scraped around the edges Of the sole
in CIder to remove crusted mud from
d,ction that you had been out in vile
weather, and that you had a par;l-
cularly malignant boot-slitt!n3 speci-
men Of the London slavny. AS to
! ycur practice, If a gentleman walks
into r?y rooms smelling Of ic':cfurnl,
With q black mark of nitrate Of silver
upon his right forefinger, ana 4 bulge
on tn side of his top-har to show
WE5'e III has secreted ~ stetlroscppe
1 must be dull, indeed, il + 90 not
pronounce him to be an active mem
Der of the medical professior."
1 could not help laughing at the
ease with which he explained his
process Of deduction. When 1 hear
you give vour reasons" REMARKED.
the thing always appear to me to
be SO ridiculously simple that / could
easily do it myself, though at each
successive instance Of your reason
ing 1 am baffled, until you explain
your process. And yet I believe that
my eyes are as good as yours"
"Quite so," he answered, lighting
a cigarette. and throwing himself
down into an armchair. You see.
but you do not observe. The dis
tinction is clear. For example, you
have frequently seen the steps which
lead up from the hall to this ROOM"
Frequently"
How often?"
We'll, some hundreds Of times"
Then how many are there?"
"How many? I don't know"
Quite so! You lave not observed.
And yet you have seen. That is just
my point. Now, I know that there
are seventeen steps, because I have
both seen and observed. Blythe
way, since you are interested in these
little problems, and since you are
good enough to chronicle n or two
Of my trifling experiences, you may
be interested in this" He threw
over a sheet of thick. pink-tinted
note-paper which had been lying
the last post" said he. Read it
aloud
n note was undated, and without
either signature or address.
There will call upon you tonight,
at a quarter to eight o'clock it said,
"a gentleman who desires to consult
you upon a matter of the very deep
est moment. Your recent services
to n Of the royal houses Of Europe
have shown hat you are one who
may safely be trusted with matters
which are of an Importance which
can hardly be exaggerated. This
account Of you we have from all
| quarters received. Be in your
chamber then at that hour, and do
not take it amiss if your visitor wears
This is indeed a mystery" ! re-
marked. What do you imagine
hat it means?"
4 have no data yet. It is a CAPT
tai mistake to theorize before one has
data. Insensibly one begins to
Of theories to suit facts. But the
note itself. What do you deduce
from it?"
I carefully examined the writing
and the paper upon which it was
written.
The man who wrote it was pre-
sumably we'll to do l remarked, en-
~deavoring to initiate my companions
processes. Such paper could not be
bought under half a crown a packet.
1t is peculiarly strong and stiff"
"Peculiar-that is the very word
said Holmes. 1T is not an English
paper at all. Hold it up to the
light"
I did so. and saw a large E with a
mall g, a p, and a large G with a
small t woven into the texture of the
| paper.
what do you make Of that" ask
ed Holmes.
The name Of the maker, no
doubt; or his monogram, rather
Not at all. The G with the small
t stands for 'Geselschaft,' which is the
German for Company 1t is a Gus
tomary contraction like our CO. p, of
course, stands for 'Papier.' Now for
the Egg. Let us glance at our Con-
t~inental Gazetteer" He took down
a heavy brown volume from his
shelves. "Eglow, Eglonitz-here we
are, Egria. 1t is in a German-speak-
ing county-in Bohemia, not far
from Carlsbad. Remarkable as be-
ing the scene of the death of Wahen-