The inspector is not in a position to append any explanation
of importance to the last of the letters. It has been
discovered that Mr. Matthew Sharpin left the house in
Rutherford Street five minutes after his interview outside of
it with Sergeant Bulmer, his manner expressing the liveliest
emotions of terror and astonishment, and his left cheek
displaying a bright patch of red, which looked as if it might
have been the result of what is popularly termed a smart box
on the ear. He was also heard by the shopman at Rutherford
Street to use a very shocking expression in reference to Mrs.
Yatman, and was seen to clench his fist vindictively as he ran
round the corner of the street. Nothing more has been heard of
him; and it is conjectured that he has left London with the
intention of offering his valuable services to the provincial
police.
On the interesting domestic subject of Mr. and Mrs. Yatman
still less is known. It has, however, been positively
ascertained that the medical attendant of the family was sent
for in a great hurry on the day when Mr. Yatman returned from
the milliner's shop. The neighbouring chemist received, soon
afterward, a prescription of a soothing nature to make up for
Mrs. Yatman. The day after, Mr. Yatman purchased some
smelling-salts at the shop, and afterward appeared at the
circulating library to ask for a novel descriptive of high
life that would amuse an invalid lady. It has been inferred
from these circumstances that he has not thought it desirable
to carry out his threat of separating from his wife, at least
in the present (presumed) condition of that lady's sensitive
nervous system.