What the Letter Can Tell
Neville's short pencil note tells his wife not to worry and asks her to wait patiently. Mrs. St. Clair trusts the handwriting and the enclosed ring. Holmes considers a narrower evidential question: precisely when the note was written, how it reached Gravesend, and whether its arrival proves Neville's present condition.
Neville's short pencil note tells his wife not to worry and asks her to wait patiently. Mrs. St. Clair trusts the handwriting and the enclosed ring. Holmes considers a narrower evidential question: precisely when the note was written, how it reached Gravesend, and whether its arrival proves Neville's present condition.