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Sir Henry paused a moment, his finger between the pages of the ancient diary.
"It is the inspirational quality in these cases," he said, "that impresses me. It is very nearly absent in our modern methods of criminal investigation. We depend now on a certain formal routine. I rarely find a man in the whole of Scotland Yard with a trace of intuitive impulse to lead him. Observe how this old justice in Virginia bridged the gaps between his incidents."