? ? ? ? As we walked home together, Holmes stopped at a telegraph office and sent off several wires.
? ? ? ? "You see, Watson," he remarked, "our evening has been by no means wasted. Some of my most interesting cases have come to me in this way through Mycroft. The problem which we have just listened to, although it can admit of but one explanation, has still some distinguishing features."
? ? ? ? "You have hopes of solving it?"
? ? ? ? "Well, knowing as much as we do, it will be singular indeed if we fail to discover the rest. You must yourself have formed some theory which will explain the facts to which we have listened."
? ? ? ? "In a vague way, yes."
? ? ? ? "What was your idea, then?"
? ? ? ? "It seemed to me to be obvious that this Greek girl had been carried off by the young Englishman named Harold Latimer."
? ? ? ? "Carried off from where?"
? ? ? ? "Athens, perhaps."
? ? ? ? Sherlock Holmes shook his head. "This young man could not talk a word of Greek.
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