It was the one to whom it delivered that box.
"What has happened?", - he thought. Having looked down, directly
under this article, he saw number of the private detective which was engaged in
this business. It was the person of average years living in London. Last week
our hero heard how his neighbor praised some detective that that helped it to
deal with his affairs. "Probably it it", - Mr. X thought. The next
morning the detective called at a door to Mr. X. "I welcome, Mr.
Holmes!", - Mr. X friendly told. And, having invited the guest to enter,
he began to tell him about an event hastily. Having attentively listened to Mr.
X, Holmes started leading him. It helped it to learn everything that is
necessary to start investigation. - "What it was colors?", -
"Black". "Hmm, what in a black box?", - Holmes thought
aloud. "Alexander Druz will answer!" - the voice from the street
reached. Our heroes, having pretended that heard nothing, continued the
thoughts.
At that time the police of England knew only that this
person was attacked by robbers, and, having stolen from him an artificial limb
of the left hand and having hit it with a heavy subject of the head,
disappeared. But the call of Mr. X cleared some details. It appeared that
robbers wanted to steal only a black box from that person. But it a deadly
grasp held this fatal box, and robbers, without having calculated force,
snatched out a box together with a hand. "Everything rises on the
places", - Holmes murmured. Now it became clear to us and here the gone
hand, but what after all was in this black box? Probably that it and remains a
riddle. To be continued..