As to the candle, and the blood, and the writing on the wall, and the ring, they may all be so many tricks to throw the police on to the wrong scent." "Well done!" said Holmes in an encouraging voice.

"Really, Gregson, you are getting along.

We shall make something of you yet." "I flatter myself that I have managed it rather neatly," the detective answered proudly.

"The young man volunteered a statement, in which he said that after following Drebber some time, the latter perceived him, and took a cab in order to get away from him.

On his way home he met an old shipmate, and took a long walk with him.