? ? ? ? " 'Right again. How did you know it? Is my nose knocked a little out of the straight?'
? ? ? ? " 'No,' said I. 'It is your ears. They have the peculiar flattening and thickening which marks the boxing man.'
? ? ? ? " 'Anything else?'
? ? ? ? " 'You have done a good deal of digging by your callosities.'
? ? ? ? " 'Made all my money at the gold fields.'
? ? ? ? " 'You have been in New Zealand.'
? ? ? ? " 'Right again.'
? ? ? ? " 'You have visited Japan.'
? ? ? ? " 'Quite true.'
? ? ? ? " 'And you have been most intimately associated with someone whose initials were J. A., and whom you afterwards were eager to entirely forget.'
? ? ? ? "Mr. Trevor stood slowly up, fixed his large blue eyes upon me with a strange wild stare, and then pitched forward, with his face among the nutshells which strewed the cloth, in a dead faint.
? ? ? ? "You can imagine, Watson, how shocked both his son and I were. His attack did not last long, however,- for when we undid his collar and sprinkled the water from one of the finger-glasses over his face, he gave a gasp or two and sat up.
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