I see you recollect all about the case." "My dear fellow," said Jervis, "Thorndyke never forgets a likely case.
He is a sort of medico-legal camel.

He gulps down the raw facts from the newspapers or elsewhere, and then, in his leisure moments, he calmly regurgitates them and has a quiet chew at them.

It is a quaint habit.

A case crops up in the papers or in one of the courts, and Thorndyke swallows it whole.

Then it lapses and everyone forgets it.