ABSTRACT
Chinese pottery. ' He gave no explanations and 1 asked for none. By long experience 1
had learned the wisdom of obedience. But when 1 had left his room 1 walked down Baker Street, revolving in my head how on earth 1 was to carry out so strange an order. Finally 1 drove to the London Library in St. James 's Square, put the matter to my friend Lomax, the sublibrarian, and departed to my rooms with a goodly volume under my arm.
