hut when it was necessary to be near the scene of action. 
Cartwright greatly assisted me, not only with food and clean linen, 
but also by watching you when I was watching Stapleton.  Your own
reports were forwarded from Baker Street to Coombe Tracey, and were 
of great service to me, especially that one truthful piece of biography
of Stapleton's.  The case had been complicated by the incident of the 
escaped convict. This also you cleared up in a very effective way, 
though I had come to the same conclusions from my own observations. 
"By the time you discovered me, I had a complete knowledge of the whole
business, but I had not a case which could go to a jury.  Even Stapleton's
attempt upon Sir Henry, which ended in the death of the unfortunate
convict, did not help us much in proving murder against our man. There 
was no alternative but to catch him red-handed, and to do so we had to 
