The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle.Excerpt from the book: Mr. Sherlock Holmes who was usually very late in the mornings save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine thick piece of wood bulbous-headed of the sort which is known as a Penang lawyer. Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. To James Mortimer M.R.C.S. from his friends of the C.C.H. was engraved upon it with the date 1884. It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry-dignified solid and reassuring.Well Watson what do you make of it?Holmes was sitting with his back to me and I had given him no sign of my occupation.How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.I have at least a well-polished silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me said he. But tell me Watson what do you make of our visitors stick? Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand this accidental souvenir becomes of importance. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it.