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themselves find everything which led to it. I will attempt to show you different stages of my reasonings. Let us begin from the very beginning. To you it is known that , suggesting to itself previously no ideas, it approached the house on foot. Naturally, I, first of all, investigated bridge and, as it already told you, revealed the distinct tracks of wheels, and it was explained from the questions that the cab could drive up here only at night. I ascertained that on the small gauge of tire this was the hired cab, but not particular crew usual London cab is much narrower than master carriage. Eto was, so to speak, the first component, then I slowly went through the front garden along the path; it was clay, i.e., such, on which especially noticeably are printed out the tracks. To you, of course, this path was seemed simply the strip of trampled mud, but for my trained eye had a value each mark on its surface. In the criminal-investigation matter there is nothing more important than the skill of reading tracks, although precisely to it barely is given the attention. Fortunately, was much occupied by this, and because of the long practice skill to recognize tracks became my second nature. I saw the deeply depressed tracks of Constables, but it examined the tracks of two people, which passed on the small garden before the police appeared. To determine, that these two passed earlier, was not difficult: somewhere their tracks were completely trampled by Constables. The second component thus appeared. he already knew that at night here arrived two one, judging by the width of its step, very high increase, and as the second it was shchegol'ski dressed: the elegant outlines of its narrow soles testified about this. Kogda I entered into the house, my conclusions were confirmed. Before me lay the man at the shchegol'skikh boots. It means, if this was murder, then killer must be high increase. On the corpse it did not prove to be wounds, but on the horror, which thickened on its face, I ascertained that it foresaw its lot. In people, suddenly dead from the break of heart or from other illnesses, it is not horror on face. After smelling the lips of corpse, I felt only sourish it smelled and he understood that it forced to accept poison this it was confirmed even and by the expression of hatred and fear on its face. I was convinced of this with the aid of the method of exception facts known to me were plotted not in what other hypothesis. Do not imagine, which here occurred something not occurred before. Forced poisoning by poison completely not news in the criminal chronicle. Each toxicologist would immediately recall the matter Of dol'skogo in Odessa or Letyur'e in Monpel'e.