"I assure you, Holmes, that I marvel at the means by which you obtain your results in this case, even more than I did in the Jefferson Hope Murder.

The thing seems to me to be deeper and more inexplicable.

How, for example, could you describe with such confidence the wooden-legged man ?" "Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.

I don't wish to be theatrical.

It is all patent and above-board.