Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories · The Stock Broker's Clerk - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

But how do you know?'

"'By the steps, my boy.

Yours are worn three inches deeper than his.

But this gentleman in the cab is my client, Mr. Hall Pycroft.

Allow me to introduce you to him.

Whip your horse up, cabby, for we have only just time to catch our train.'

The man whom I found myself facing was a well-built, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, honest face, and a slight, crisp, yellow moustache.

He wore a very shiny top-hat, and a neat suit of sober black which made him look what he was—a smart young city man of the class who have been labelled Cockneys, but who give us our crack-volunteer regiments.'

and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than any body of men in these islands.

His round, ruddy face was naturally full of cheeriness, but the corners of his mouth seemed to me to be pulled down in a half-comical distress.

It was not, however, until we were all in our first-class carriage, and well started upon our journey to Birmingham, that I was able to learn what the trouble was which had driven him to Sherlock Holmes.'

"'We have a clear run here of seventy minutes,' Holmes remarked.

"'I want you, Mr. Hall Pycroft, to tell my friend your very interesting experience exactly as you have told it to me, or with more detail, if possible.

It will be of use to me to hear the succession of events again.

It is a case, Watson, which may prove to have something in it, or may prove to have nothing.'

but which at least presents those unusual and outré features which are as dear to you as they are to me.

Now, Mr. Paycroft, I shall not interrupt you again."

Our young companion looked at me with a twinkle in his eye.

"'The worst of the story is,' said he, "'that I should show myself up as such a confounded fool.

Of course it may work out all right, and I don't see that I could have done otherwise.'

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