Person
Cartwright
A bright, keen-faced London lad of fourteen, one of the boys at a district messenger office whose manager Holmes had once helped. Holmes engages him on the spot to work through the waste-paper of twenty-three hotels near Charing Cross in search of the cut-up Times leader from which the warning note was made. He gazes with great reverence at the famous detective and sets off at once on his shilling-a-call errand.
Chapter V. Three Broken Threads
He wires to Baker Street that he has visited all twenty-three hotels as directed but is sorry to report that he cannot trace the cut sheet of the Times.
Chapter XII. Death on the Moor
It comes out that Holmes had secretly brought the lad down to the moor, where he has fetched the detective his bread and clean linen and served as an extra pair of eyes upon a very active pair of feet.
Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets
At the station he takes Holmes's orders to travel up to town and wire Sir Henry a decoy message about a dropped pocketbook. Holmes notes that the faithful boy would have pined at the door of the moor hut had he not been reassured of his master's safety.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
In the full account Holmes credits him plainly: disguised as a country boy, the lad kept him supplied at Coombe Tracey and on the moor, and often watched Watson as well, so that the detective could keep his hand upon all the strings.
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