? ? ? ? "Yes, he lies upstairs. The inquest is to-morrow."
? ? ? ? "He has been in your service some years, Colonel Ross?"
? ? ? ? "I have always found him an excellent servant."
? ? ? ? "I presume that you made an inventory of what he had in his pockets at the time of his death, Inspector?"
? ? ? ? "I have the things themselves in the sitting-room if you would care to see them."
? ? ? ? "I should be very glad." We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the inspector unlocked a square tin box and lald a small heap of things before us. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle. an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch of sealskin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminum pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible blade marked Weiss & Co., London.
? ? ? ? "This is a very singular knife," said Holmes, lifting it up and examining it minutely. "I presume, as I see blood-stains upon it, that it is the one which was found in the dead man's grasp.
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