RIVAL DETECTIVES.
_ Sir' Arthur' Conan Doyle once had an amusing experience with a cabman . in Paris.;. The author had just arrived, at the French capital, and; to his great surprise, the cabman who drove him from the station to his hotel addressed him by name.' Sir Arthur asked the man how he: knew who he was. "Oh," replied the cabman; "I read in the newspapers that tho famous Conan Doyle would come to Paris, from..Marseilles- and. Lyons;; and directly,'! saw, you .'J observed;-that, your; hair had b^:cjjt.;Sy"^:^arseiH^:'BaVhM:, ! •and that ef ybiir: left shoe;'tKerei is. mud from: Lyons."''. Sir -Arthur '.was highly flattered and;gratified i.t'o think that an.' ordinary cabmahV-wasTso' intimate, with -his fa--moils detective stories that ho ..could apply the methods of their '. central ; character .to the facts of every-day life'.' ."Are those the only signs by which you recognised who I amp" asked Sir Arthur. "Oh,\no," replied the Jehu, as he .flicked up his horse, you see, your full 'name is-painted on your trunk!" .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 14
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165RIVAL DETECTIVES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 14
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