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Page 124
"I've heard of your methods before now, Mr. Holmes,"
said he, tartly. "You are ready enough to use all the
information that the police can lay at your disposal,
and then you try to finish the case yourself and bring
discredit on them."
"On the contrary," said Holmes, "out of my last
fifty-three cases my name has only appeared in four,
and the police have had all the credit in forty-nine.
I don't blame you for not knowing this, for you are
young and inexperienced, but if you wish to get on in
your new duties you will work with me and not against
me."
"I'd be very glad of a hint or two," said the
detective, changing his manner. "I've certainly had
no credit from the case so far."
"What steps have you taken?"
"Tangey, the commissionnaire, has been shadowed. He
left the Guards with a good character and we can find
nothing against him. His wife is a bad lot, though.
I fancy she knows more about this than appears."
"Have you shadowed her?"
"We have set one of our women on to her. Mrs. Tangey
drinks, and our woman has been with her twice when she
was well on, but she could get nothing out of her."
"I understand that they have had brokers in the
house?"
"Yes, but they were paid off."
"Where did the money come from?"
"That was all right. His pension was due. They have
not shown any sign of being in funds."
"What explanation did she give of having answered the
bell when Mr. Phelps rang for the coffee?"
"She said that he husband was very tired and she
wished to relieve him."
"Well, certainly that would agree with his being found
a little later asleep in his chair. There is nothing
against them then but the woman's character. Did you
ask her why she hurried away that night? Her haste
attracted the attention of the police constable."
"She was later than usual and wanted to get home."
"Did you point out to her that you and Mr. Phelps, who
started at least twenty minutes after her, got home
before her?"
"She explains that by the difference between a 'bus
and a hansom."
"Did she make it clear why, on reaching her house, she
ran into the back kitchen?"
"Because she had the money there with which to pay off
the brokers."
"She has at least an answer for everything. Did you
ask her whether in leaving she met any one or saw any
one loitering about Charles Street?"
"She saw no one but the constable."
"Well, you seem to have cross-examined her pretty
thoroughly. What else have you done?"
"The clerk Gorot has been shadowed all these nine
weeks, but without result. We can show nothing
against him."
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