Doctor Watsonish

— However, out of the miscellaneous collection on hand, the manager picked out one umbrella, tagged it with the Englishman’s name and laid it away for safe keeping. Upon the return of the traveler that umbrella was given him. It proved to be the right one. “How on earth could you tell it was his?” asked a Doctor Watsonish-kind of clerk with as much awe as if he were addressing Sherlock Holmes himself. “There was no possible way of identifying it.”