“He was bright, eager, and in excellent spirits, a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression. ‘There is no great mystery in this matter,’ he said, taking the cup of tea which I had poured out for him; ‘the facts appear to admit of only one explanation.’ ‘What! you have solved it already?’ ‘Well, that would be too much to say. I have discovered a suggestive fact, that is all. It is, however, very suggestive. The details are still to be added. I have just found, on... consulting the back files of The Times, that Major Sholto, of Upper Norwood, late of the Thirty-fourth Bombay Infantry, died upon the twenty-eighth of April, 1882.’ ‘I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.’ ‘No? You surprise me. Look at it in this way, then. Captain Morstan disappears. The only person in London whom he could have visited is Major Sholto. Major Sholto denies having heard that he was in London. Four years later Sholto dies.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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