Call Them Uncertain Tidings

I invested in foreign newspapers. Denmark, Belgium, France. And then my practice grew so busy that I had to give over most of the reading of them to Mary, while Alfie struggled through the agony columns in the English papers.

The two did not always match. O was in Normandy, while Holmes was reported in Paris, in Dieppe when Holmes was in Dijon. I was beginning to think I had it wrong entirely when O mentioned Dover. But then a tall, thin, red-headed farmer tipped his hat to me on the same morning that I received a note from Narbonne.

Call Them Uncertain Tidings

I invested in foreign newspapers. Denmark, Belgium, France. And then my practice grew so busy that I had to give over most of the reading of them to Mary, while Alfie struggled through the agony columns in the English papers.

The two did not always match. O was in Normandy, while Holmes was reported in Paris, in Dieppe when Holmes was in Dijon. I was beginning to think I had it wrong entirely when O mentioned Dover. But then a tall, thin, red-headed farmer tipped his hat to me on the same morning that I received a note from Narbonne.