? ? ? ? And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington. We had left Reading far behind us before he thrust the last one of them under the seat and offered me his cigar-case.
? ? ? ? "We are going well," said he, looking out of the window and glancing at his watch. "Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour."
? ? ? ? "I have not observed the quarter-mile posts," said I.
? ? ? ? "Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one. I presume that you have looked into this matter of the murder of John Straker and the disappearance of Silver Blaze?"
? ? ? ? "I have seen what the Telegraph and the Chronicle have to say."
? ? ? ? "It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence.
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