telegram

Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram.

“The plot thickens,” he said, as I entered; “I have just had an answer to my American telegram.

There were no papers or memoranda in the murdered man’s pocket, except a single telegram, dated from Cleveland about a month ago, and containing the words, ‘J.

“I have them,” said Lestrade, producing a small white box; “I took them and the purse and the telegram, intending to have them put in a place of safety at the Police Station.