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$4 A STUDY IN SCARLET. presenting it to the dog we find that he laps it up read- ily enough.” As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine-glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry. Sherlock Holmes’s earnest de- meanor had so far convinced us that we all sat in silence, watching the animal intently, and expecting some start- ling effect. None such appeared, however. The dog continued to lie stretched upon the cushion, breathing in a labored way, but apparently neither the better nor the worse for its draught. Holmes had taken out his watch, and as minute fol- lowed minute without result, an expression of the utmost chagrin and disappointment appeared upon his features. He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers upon the table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience. So great was his emotion that I felt sincerely sorry for him, while the two detectives smiled derisively, by no — means displeased at this check which he had met. “Tt can’t be a coincidence,” he cried, at last spring- ing from his chair and pacing wildly up and down the room; “it is impossible that it should be a mere coinci- dence. The very pills which I suspected in the case of Drebber are actually found after the death of Stangerson. And yet they are inert. What can it mean? Surely my whole chain of reasoning cannot have been false. It is impossible! And yet this wretched dog 1s none the worse. Ah, I haveit! Ihave it!” With a perfect shriek of delight he rushed to the box, cut the other pill in two, dissolved it, added milk, and presented it to the terrier. The unfortunate creature’s tongue seemed hardly Gomicbooks.c¢