Yes, I have very little hesitation in saying that could we examine the waste-paper baskets of the hotels around Charing Cross until we found the remains of the mutilated Times leader we could lay our hands straight upon the person who sent this singular message.

Halloa! Halloa! What's this ?" He was carefully examining the foolscap, upon which the words were pasted, holding it only an inch or two from his eyes.
"Well ?" "Nothing," said he, throwing it down.

"It is a blank half-sheet of paper, without even a water-mark upon it.

I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter; and now, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened to you since you have been in London ?" "Why, no, Mr.Holmes.I think not." "You have not observed anyone follow or watch you ?" "I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor.

"Why in thunder should anyone follow or watch me ?" "We are coming to that.