Sherlock Binns

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

Looking up Silver Blaze the other day for the dog in the nighttime 
quote (for some forgotten relevance to the H/H - H/R question), I 
noticed the following:

'...we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and 
hypothesis.  The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact - of 
absolute undeniable fact - from the embellishments of theorists and 
reporters.'  (Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson)

Was Conan Doyle using his time-turner (in reverse) when he wrote this?

David