the deduction of which does not require Sherlock Holmes.
His work of "dissecting" so far reminds us of the work of a six months' student of a medical college on a Tom cat (no pun meant).
Yours very truly,
L. H. M.
I answered as follows:
My Dear Sir: Your request is similar to that of a hundred other correspondents. I regret I can do nothing to help out. Donohoe's trouble is, he is short of facts, so "short" that he seems to me completely "cornered." I am "long of" them, as you and all my other readers will admit before I am through my story, but my facts are not the kind Donohoe can use, or I would willingly let him have a few to assist him out of his present predicament.
Donohoe's employers, Rogers and the "Standard Oil," knew before they put him on to his present "job" that my life was a peculiarly and unusually open one—one that