But why Turkish?" a asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a canebacked chair at the moment and my protruded feet had attracted his everactive attention. "English" I answered in some surprise. "I got them at Latimer's in Oxford Street." Holmes smiled with an expression of weary patience. "The bath!" he said; "the bath! Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating home-made article?"