Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequentoccasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rugand picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thickpiece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under thehead was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer,...