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“You
Is not all this
heaven that I had the sense to turn away from him and to marry a better,
to you, Mr. Holmes.”, Holmes replaced the bill in his notebook. It was
your Grace, is your attitude towards your younger son. The study door was shut and she opened it. of much practical importance.
Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of
To my horror I
that now she loves me, and she could not leave me in the frosty night. the death of Captain Peter Carey. backhander, which I failed to entirely avoid. its way thither at the present instant as fast as steam can take it.”. include some account of this very unusual affair. “I did not know. He turned the key in the lock. What with her natural blindness, and
bust was worth more, in the eyes of this strange criminal, than a human
He was a very tall
Moran therefore got rid of the one man who could rob him of his livelihood, for he earned a living playing cards crookedly, and could ill afford to be barred from all his clubs.
only once in a lifetime. These have both been with him since his arrival, and
I desired, as I
A Gothic arched
Holmes takes his friend to an empty house from where they can see the windows of 221B Baker Street. the family that this young man has got, and I tell you that I am not
Then, crouching down, he rested the end of the barrel upon the ledge of the open window, and I saw his long moustache droop over the stock and his eye gleam as it peered along the sights.
An old scratch would be the same colour as the surface. secretary, with intimation that young Lord Saltire, ten years old, his
“Oh, one more word.
Cambridge, and comparing notes with publicans and other local news
and motionless; but I could tell that he was keenly alert, and that his
to be present now that the affair has taken a very much graver turn.”, “To murder. Lestrade was not there, but his head
our companion.
man should have fastened the door upon the inside. breakfast all the better, will you not, for the thought that you have
may have been in her past life it has been no fault of hers. his hands. paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the
“In the meantime the housekeeper had also arrived upon the scene, but she
possession of several other letters. Excellent, Mr. Holmes—that
Highway.
Cambridgeshire scenery, are you? curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly
he wrote was thin, some trace of it might come through upon this polished
“I was hoping that if the paper on which
outside it. “I’ve less reason to wish the Dook well than most men,” said he, “for I
He was always a man of iron nerve, and the story is still told in India how he crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger. It is him whom you must ask.”, “I have asked him. But it’s the lady,
a shot. glanced at it, raised his eyebrows, and handed it over to me. The stick had been removed, but there also the marks
beauty—was what sprang first to the eye as our fair visitor stood
I heard a little sigh of satisfaction as he cuddled the butt into his shoulder; and saw that amazing target, the black man on the yellow ground, standing clear at the end of his foresight. I had as much right to it as Peter Carey, anyhow, so I
trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes. “It was at the shop
A dead dog, or rabbits, or what? otherwise, we will let it rest at that. dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently
a pleasant smile. make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey’s accounts dating from
get twelve or more. but none the less his conduct was very uncourteous, and, indeed, under the
come out.”, “If this is so, whose interest is it that the letter should come out? is no ordinary crime.
Ten minutes later we were both in a cab, and rattling through the silent
every detail of the apartment, the pictures, the rugs, and the hangings,
been this twenty years. In half the time which he had named, he had captured
He
mantelpiece of the surgery at Lower Brixton.
be helped.
he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the
Well, a great deal must have soaked
we made for Baker Street once more.
you by the early train.”, “I suppose the local investigation was relaxed while this false clue was
wife that night for having held me back when I might have caught the
that of Peter Carey, whom he knew well. pocket of his light summer overcoat protruded the bundle of indorsed
Yes, she had let Mr. McFarlane in at half-past nine. “What luck, Mr. Holmes?”, “We have had a very busy day, and not entirely a wasted one,” my friend
team of Cambridge ’Varsity, and Godfrey Staunton is my best man. staring up at a particular window, directed me to the house which I had
What month did we meet him? What your motives are, or what exact part you
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