London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

You see, but you do not observe.

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.