It may possibly recur to your memory that when I examined the paper upon which the printed words were fastened I made a close inspection for the water-mark.

In doing so I held it within a few inches of my eyes, and was conscious of a faint smell of the scent known as white jessamine.

There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.

The scent suggested the presence of a lady, and already my thoughts began to turn towards the Stapletons.

Thus I had made certain of the hound, and had guessed at the criminal before ever we went to the west country.
"It was my game to watch Stapleton.