“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,” answered Holmes thoughtfully. “It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
038. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ooO88fMyVWBL8skSr3CTR1PgKcnIJScj/view?usp=sharing
It must be confessed, however, that the case looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very possible that he is indeed the culprit.
039. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RYsGzw2MZU_NiG5hu4KLsVYaLbNexnN8/view?usp=sharing
There are several people in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in his interest.
040. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13AI45yKyds4R2JxGipla2mjHQAivbzZS/view?usp=sharing
Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly digesting their breakfasts at home.”
041. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17sgorPizNsjMaabKLfDhOOEZWo7ENS_o/view?usp=sharing
“I am afraid,” said I, “that the facts are so obvious that you will find little credit to be gained out of this case.”
042. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jUMxW9oF2dj8AX6czFrVDD92T-3fkYSv/view?usp=sharing
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,” he answered, laughing. “Besides, we may chance to hit upon some other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Mr. Lestrade.
043. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UoPKvOaP-nTkliasROp3D84MdgTUcdlZ/view?usp=sharing
You know me too well to think that I am boasting when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of understanding.
044. https://drive.google.com/file/d/155ZhgQFQ1vbNcVIUv_mgqh8lPy7lk-lV/view?usp=sharing
To take the first example to hand, I very clearly perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted even so self-evident a thing as that.”
045. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cxu_XCGTShQjrsKnbXKROJ_hlhRtTJQv/view?usp=sharing
“How on earth—”
046. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cFCiR-EQH8ITERYX4vQMn0IleomG_SUn/view?usp=sharing
“My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which characterises you.
047. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hi7UZDplAiaB6rASHV6KhT8lTRpOyiKW/view?usp=sharing
You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other.
048. https://drive.google.com/file/d/14IDxLMEyyEJ4rGxnDVNO-7YWdOSGwtAT/view?usp=sharing
I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.
049. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wHWc1LiegV3FuZ_w8LIchBRy-TwFw1JE/view?usp=sharing
Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the inquest, and which are worth considering.”
050. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iA6Ob3eMO19rYUwFriXYyDd4VrpK-C2K/view?usp=sharing
“What are they?”
051. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QEpn66fJ0N6E65VypFh45CgU04GxPhl6/view?usp=sharing
“It