of the most singular and sensational crimes of modern times.
"Students of criminology," he said, "will remember the analogous
incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course
there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case
possesses some features which are entirely its own. Even now we have
no clear case against our very wily foe. But I shall be very much
surprised if it is not clear enough before we go to bed this night."
The London express came roaring into the station, and a small, wiry
bulldog of a man sprang from the first-class carriage. We all three
shook hands, and I saw at once from the reverential way in which
Lestrade gazed at my companion that he had learned a good deal since
the days when they had first worked together.
Holmes said that we had two hours before we needed to think of starting.
