I had a Jezail bullet through it some time before, and, though it did not prevent me from walking, it ached wearily at every change of the weather.
"My practice has extended recently to the Continent," said Holmes, after a while, filling up his old brier-root pipe.

"I was consulted last week by Francois Le Villard, who, as you probably know, has come rather to the front lately in the French detective service.

He has all the Celtic power of quick intuition, but he is deficient in the wide range of exact knowledge which is essential to the higher developments of his art.

The case was concerned with a will, and possessed some features of interest.

I was able to refer him to two parallel cases, the one at Riga in 1857, and the other at St.Louis in 1871, which have suggested to him the true solution.