Which was it ?" "Breckinridge is his name." "Ah! I don't know him.

Well, here's your good health landlord, and prosperity to your house.

Good-night." "Now for Mr.Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat as we came out into the frosty air.

"Remember, Watson that though we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal servitude unless we can establish his innocence.

It is possible that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, and which a singular chance has placed in our hands.