Introduction

Inspector macdonald and white mason sat in a small parlor of the local police sergeant. They were sorting letters and telegrams, which they were carefully sorting and docketing. The country seems to be full of the fugitives with yellow coats, said holmes sympathetically. But this cyclist, he is not an invention. We have his description, his valise, his bicycle. Why should we not get him? And my advice to you is summed up in three words, abandon the case.