Lestrade and Gregson.

The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr.Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some degree of their skill.

It is expected that a testimonial of some sort will be presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their services." "Didn't I tell you so when we started ?" cried Sherlock Holmes with a laugh.

"That's the result of all our Study in Scarlet: to get them a testimonial!" "Never mind," I answered, "I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them.

In the meantime you must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser-- "'Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.'" ORIGINAL TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: [Footnote 1: Frontispiece, with the caption: "He examined with his glass the word upon the wall, going over every letter of it with the most minute exactness." (_Page_ 23.)] [Footnote 2: "JOHN H.WATSON, M.D.": the initial letters in the name are capitalized, the other letters in small caps.