Clearly, the pungent smell of the creasote rose high above all other contending scents.
"Do not imagine," said Holmes, "that I depend for my success in this case upon the mere chance of one of these fellows having put his foot in the chemical.

I have knowledge now which would enable me to trace them in many different ways.

This, however, is the readiest and, since fortune has put it into our hands, I should be culpable if I neglected it.

It has, however, prevented the case from becoming the pretty little intellectual problem which it at one time promised to be.

There might have been some credit to be gained out of it, but for this too palpable clue." "There is credit, and to spare," said I.