Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it.

It was an Indian cigar, of the variety which are rolled in Rotterdam." "And the cigar-holder ?" "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth.

Therefore he used a holder.

The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him.

I see the direction in which all this points.