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INCIDENTS AND PREDICAMENTS 103" Curiouser and curiouser !"She had set out then -and she had neverreached Hawick. We asked ourselves the solemnquestion, which must have occurred to many inlike straits What would Sherlock Holmes donow ? The first thing to do was to send Herbertto borrow a bicycle. He had no difficulty there,but it took him a very long time to find a lamp,and when he did it was an archaic and almostimpossible one ;and it was about nine o'clockbefore I started on my second journey to Hawick.We had concluded that the central clue in themystery was the Typewriter. The Wanderer, weknew, had a typewriter, and as she was not likelyto carryit with her, it should be at the stationif she had ever arrived. My lamp went out threeor four times, but I made a fairly good pace nonethe less,and immediately ran the typewriter toearth in the left luggage office.ItVery wellshe had reached Hawick after all.now seemed good to me to discover when shereached Hawick.not been on duty then,The only available porter hadand the books did notshow. All right. Where did the station-masterlive ? Not very far away, but he was alreadygoing to bed. I fortuitously attracted hisattention more rapidly than I might otherwise