... me. What was this nocturnal
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
The Red-headed League (cont)
October 9, 1890.
Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement ... him at the door," said Holmes.
"Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I must
compliment you."
"And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed ...
address me always to say &apos ;sir& apos; and 'please.'"
"All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would you please,
sir, march upstairs, where we...
... that
it is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience”
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (3)
Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber ... playing with a
dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn of the case was told me by
Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back next day.
"I had," said he, "come to an entirely ... you may rest assured that we shall soon drive
away the dangers that threaten you."
Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and sitting-
room at the Crown Inn. They...
...
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock
Holmes, for solution ... is anything in the nature of a problem which you desire to
see solved, I should strongly recommend you to come to my friend, Mr.
Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the official police." ... accent. 'You have
was inside a hansom, driving with my new acquaintance to Baker Street.
Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sittingroom in his
dressing-gown, reading the...
... a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure.
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (2)
"Well, when I came ... wood-work, and away we went as fast as the horse could go."
"One horse?" interjected Holmes.
"Yes, only one."
"Did you observe the color?"
"Yes, I...
... course, in the inverse order to the way
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ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3)
Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of ... presented himself.
"Mr. Josiah Brown, I suppose?" said Holmes.
"Yes, sir; and you, no doubt, are Mr. Sherlock Holmes? I had the
note which you sent by the express messenger, ...
upon the table.
"Is Mr. SherlockHolmes here?"
My friend bowed and smiled. "Mr. Sandeford, of Reading, I
suppose?" said he.
"Yes, sir, I fear that I am a little...
... of the fourteenth, a gentleman named
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
A CASE OF IDENTITY (cont)
Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips still ... something of his assurance while Holmes had
been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold sneer upon his pale
face.
"It may be so, or it may not. Mr. Holmes, " said he, "but ... Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that this
typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an appointment with me
for six o'clock?"
"Yes, sir. I am afraid that...
... me."
"But how?"
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
A Scandal in Bohemia
I.
To SherlockHolmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him ... wooing, and with the dark
incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see
Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary
powers. His rooms were ... Monday."
"Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That is very
"I promise," said Holmes.
"And I."
"You will excuse this mask,"...
... wish?"
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
A Scandal in Bohemia
II.
At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet
returned. The ... was searching
his pockets for the key when someone passing said:
"Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes. "
is capable of having her waylaid and searched. Two attempts of the sort have ... After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are but
preventing her from injuring another.
Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who is
in need of air. A maid...
... more highly," said
Holmes.
"You have but to name it."
was dated at midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way:
My Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, You really did it ... with a sardonic eye as we stepped from the brougham.
"Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she.
"I am Mr. Holmes, " answered my companion, looking at her with a
questioning ... a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of
Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. SherlockHolmes were beaten by a
woman's wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women,...
... RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED.
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The Red-headed League
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of
last year ... youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes.
"His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, either. It's hard
to say his age. I should not wish a smarter assistant, Mr. Holmes; and ...
"Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?"
"Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, " said Jabez
Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small pawnbroker's...
... something had happened, and
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A CASE OF IDENTITY
"My dear fellow," said SherlockHolmes as we sat on either side of the fire ... first
"It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes.
"Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the morning
he was saying to ... will just show you how fond he was of
me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think of."
"It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom of mine...
... less than the time stated I was in a cab with my valise, rattling away
to Paddington Station. SherlockHolmes was pacing up and down the
platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller ... it does so here."
"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes
"My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which
characterizes ... that."
"How on earth "
suspicious remark."
"On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I can at present
see in the clouds. However innocent...
... lips parted, a pink flush upon her cheeks, all thought of her
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (2)
Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of ...
anyone who really knows him."
"I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "You may
rely upon my doing all that I can."
"But you have read ... me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away
after theories and fancies."
"You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard...
...
"But his left-handedness."
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ARTHUR CONANDOYLE
THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (3)
Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent ... you," said Holmes as the old man signed the
statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we may never be exposed
to such a temptation."
"I pray not, sir. And what do ... pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?"
"What of the rat, then?"
Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on
the table. "This is...
... perhaps?"
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The Five Orange Pips
When I glance over my notes and records of the SherlockHolmes cases
between the years '82 ... the chimney. SherlockHolmes sat
moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime,
while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea -stories until ... of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning
case. In the latter, as may be remembered, SherlockHolmes was able, by
winding up the dead man's watch, to prove that it had been wound...