half past one
` Then it 's settled , ' Van Bibber said quietly . ` I 'll wear the fur overcoat , and to disarm all criticism I 'll simply tell everybody I have a fearful cold and do n't dare take it off . Come on -- let 's go down . It 's half past one now , and Mrs. Winchley told me she wanted to begin early , so as to have it over with before breakfast . ' '' It was my pleasure next to have a Sherlock Holmes story from Dr. Doyle , wherein the great detective is once more restored to life , and through an ingenious complication discovers himself . His sudden disappearance , which was never fully explained , did not really result in his death , but in a concussion of the brain in his fall over the precipice which drove all consciousness of his real self from his mind . Found in an unconscious condition by a band of yodelers , he is carried by them into the Tyrolese Alps , where , after a prolonged illness , he regains his health , but all his past life is a blank to him .