can't make the man out. He seems to be riding for a fall. Well,
as he says, we must each try our own way and see what comes of
it. But there's something in Inspector Baynes which I can't
quite understand."

"Just sit down in that chair, Watson," said Sherlock Holmes when
we had returned to our apartment at the Bull. "I want to put you
in touch with the situation, as I may need your help to-night.
Let me show you the evolution of this case so far as I have been
able to follow it. Simple as it has been in its leading
features, it has none the less presented surprising difficulties
in the way of an arrest. There are gaps in that direction which
we have still to fill.

"We will go back to the note which was handed in to Garcia upon
the evening of his death. We may put aside this idea of Baynes's
that Garcia's servants were concerned in the matter. The proof
of this lies in the fact that it was HE who had arranged for the
presence of Scott Eccles, which could only have been done for the
purpose of an alibi. It was Garcia, then, who had an enterprise,
and apparently a criminal enterprise, in hand that night in the
course of which he met his death. I say 'criminal' because only
a man with a criminal enterprise desires to establish an alibi.
Who, then, is most likely to have taken his life? Surely the
person against whom the criminal enterprise was directed. So far
it seems to me that we are on safe ground.

"We can now see a reason for the disappearance of Garcia's
household. They were ALL confederates in the same unknown crime.
If it came off when Garcia returned, any possible suspicion would