... two nights ago was the brother. I have been looking
up the dates in the old files of the paper, and I find that the
disappearance of the pearl was exactly two days before the arrest
of Beppo, ...
with the happiest results. By that time, of course, I knew for
certain that it was the Borgia pearl that we were after. The
name of the murdered man linked the one event with the other.
There ... inverse order to the way
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES
ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3)
Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old
daily papers...
...
You never did fail me. No doubt there are natural enemies which
limit the increase of the creatures. You and I, Watson, we have
done our part. Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?
No, ... Indeed, I cannot think why
the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so
prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wondering! Strange how
the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, ...
"Admirable, Watson! Admirable! You are the best of messengers."
"He wished to return with me."
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (2)
I gave Holmes's...
... place."
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (3)
From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I
heard the footfalls upon the stair, with the opening and the ... up the gas? Ah, the shadows
begin to fall, do they? Yes, I will turn it up, that I may see
you the better." He crossed the room and the light suddenly
brightened. "Is there any other ... of the bedroom door. Then, to my surprise, there came a
long silence, broken only by the heavy breathings and gaspings of
the sick man. I could imagine that our visitor was standing by
the...
... see, was the stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never
together, but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was
suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious ... each other, they were really odd ones; the one having a
slightly decorated toe-cap, and the other a plain one. One was buttoned only
in the two lower buttons out of five, and the other at the ... at the
"No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, which should
settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the other is to the young lady's
stepfather,...
...
"Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should produce her
letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their
authenticity?"
"There is the ... send them the photograph. And she will do it. I know that she
will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face
of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the ... the
official police. From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings:
of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing
up of the singular tragedy of the...
... translation of the ‘‘War Hymn
of the Boers,’’ ‘‘sung by the Boers in their camps during the Majuba
campaign’’ (Majuba was the scene of the infamous Boer defeat of the
British in the first Boer ... the
greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible
French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country
forever at the time of the revocation of the ... survive, place them so that they acquire
exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which
is suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then,
finally,...
... in the wind.
"My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the others were
there before us. The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in
front of the ... arrived. I paid the man and hurried into the church.
There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a
surprised clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them. They were
all ... gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood running freely down
his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to their heels in one direction and the
loungers in the other, while a number of...
...
"And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost. "
"We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the drawing-
room, followed by the King and ...
object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Then I, rather
imprudently, wished you good-night, and started for the Temple to see my
husband. We both thought the best resource was ...
"On the contrary, my dear sir, " cried the King; "nothing could be more
successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The photograph is now as safe
as if it were in the fire."...
... another vacancy on the League of the Red-headed
Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand
that there are more vacancies than there are men, so that the ... yourself for one of the
vacancies.'
and the left one with the smooth patch near the elbow where you rest it upon
the desk?"
"Well, but China?"
" ;The fish that you ... me through the crowd, and right
up to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream upon the
stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we
To the Red-Headed...
... it is all perfectly
familiar to me. There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the
blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of writers
could invent ... gives the
charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the
bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. In these cases,
save for one rather intricate ... than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying
within the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to
mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother said she...
... until he heard in the evening of the
tragedy that had occurred.
" ;The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the
game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool ...
McCarthy, going the same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his
belief, the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was following
him. He thought no more of the matter until ... ex-Australian. The men had known
each other in the colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came
to settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. Turner was
apparently the...
... and strolled out in the direction of the Boscombe Pool, with the
intention of visiting the rabbit warren which is upon the other side. On my
way I saw William Crowder, the game-keeper, as he ... hours."
I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through the
streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, where I lay upon the
sofa and tried to interest ... her
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (2)
Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called and gave
evidence as follows:...
... between the Hatherley Farm and the
private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. Above the woods which lined it
upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked
the site of the ...
story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are the
father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It is the butt-end of
the gun as the son stood listening. And ... dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool
the woods grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass
twenty paces across between the edge of the trees land the reeds which lined
the lake....
... until
the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the
splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves. My
wife was on a visit to her mother's, ... day the wind had screamed and the rain had
beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-
made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the
routine ... adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of
the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower
vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the
British...