Mac.
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data
is the bane of our profession. I can see only two things for
certain at present--a great brain in London, and a dead man in
Sussex. It's the chain between that we are going to trace."
Chapter 3 - The Tragedy of Birlstone
Now for a moment I will ask leave to remove my own insignificant
personality and to describe events which occurred before we
arrived upon the scene by the light of knowledge which came to us
afterwards. Only in this way can I make the reader appreciate
the people concerned and the strange setting in which their fate
was cast.
The village of Birlstone is a small and very ancient cluster of
half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of
Sussex. For centuries it had remained unchanged; but within the
last few years its picturesque appearance and situation have
attracted a number of well-to-do residents, whose villas peep out
from the woods around. These woods are locally supposed to be
the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away
until it reaches the northern chalk downs.
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