And the The Welcome to Part 2 and the conclusion of the adventure of the Devil's Foot by Arthur Conan Doyle, a Sherlock Holmes adventure.

I may have commented upon my friend's power of mental detachment, but never have I wondered

added more than upon that spring morning in Cornwall, when for two hours he discours

upon Celts, arrowheads, and shards as lightly as if no sinister

mystery were waiting for his solution.

It was not until we had returned in the afternoon to our cottage that we found a visitor awaiting us who soon brought our minds back to the matter in hand.

Neither of us needed to be told who that visitor was.

The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and

hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard, golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the

nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar. All these were well known in London as in Africa

and could only be associated with tremendous personality

of Dr Leon Sterndale, the great lion hunter and explorer.

We had heard of his presence in the district and had once or twice caught sight of his tall figure upon the moorland paths. He made no advances to us, however, nor would we have dreamed of doing so to him, as it was well known that it was his love of seclusion

which caused him to spend the greater part of the intervals between his journeys in a small bungalow

buried in the lonely wood of Beauchamp Arias. Here amid his books and his maps he lived

an absolutely lonely life attending to his own simple wants and paying little

apparent heed to the affairs of his neighbors. It was a surprise to me, therefore, to hear him asking Holmes in an eager voice, whether he had made any advance in his reconstruction of this mysterious episode.

The county police are utterly at fault, said he.

But perhaps your wider experience has suggested some conceivable explanation.

My only claim to being taken into your confidence

is that during my many residences here I have come to know this family of

Pregenis very well. Upon my

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