Doyle
The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by threecases of i in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherloes, and of studying his methods. I find them recorded in my notes uheheadings of 'the adventure of the Sed stain', 'the adventure of the naval treaty',and 'the adventure of the tired captain'. The first of these, however, deals withis of such importance, and implicates so many of the first families in thekingdom, that for many years it will be impossible to make it publio case,however, in whies was ever engaged has illustrated the value of his analyticalmethods so clearly or has impressed those who were associated with him so deeply. Istill retain an almost verbatim report of the interview in which he demonstrated thetrue facts of the case to Monsieur Dubuque, of the Paris police, and fritz vonWaldbaum, the well-known specialist of Dantzig, both of whom had wasted theirenergies upon roved to be side-issues. The ury will have e,however, before the story be safely told. Meanwhile, I pass on to the sed uponmy list, which promised also, at oime, to be of national importance, and wasmarked by several is which give it a quite unique character.During my school-days I had been intimately associated with a d named PercyPhelps, who was of much the same age as myself, though he was two csses ahead ofme. He was a very brilliant boy, and carried away every prize which the school had tooffer, finishing his exploits by winning a schorship, which sent him on to tinuehis triumphant career at Cambridge. He was, I remember, extremely well ectedand ever when we were all little boys together, we khat his mother's brother wasLord Holdhurst, the great servative politi. This gaudy retionship did himlittle good at school; orary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevyhim about the pyground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. But it was ahing when he came out into the world. I heard vag