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PROJECT GUTENBERG'S ADVENTURES SHERLOCK HOLMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THIS EBOOK ANYONE ANYWHERE COST WITH ALMOST RESTRICTIONS WHATSOEVER COPY GIVE AWAY RE-USE UNDER TERMS PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE INCLUDED WITH THIS EBOOK ONLINE GUTENBERG TITLE ADVENTURES SHERLOCK HOLMES AUTHOR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE POSTING DATE APRIL EBOOK FIRST POSTED NOVEMBER LANGUAGE ENGLISH CHARACTER ENCODING ISO- START THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ADVENTURES SHERLOCK HOLMES PRODUCED ANONYMOUS PROJECT GUTENBERG VOLUNTEER JOSE MENENDEZ ADVENTURES SHERLOCK HOLMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE CONTENTS SCANDAL BOHEMIA RED-HEADED LEAGUE CASE IDENTITY BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY FIVE ORANGE PIPS WITH TWISTED ADVENTURE BLUE CARBUNCLE VIII ADVENTURE SPECKLED BAND ADVENTURE ENGINEER’S THUMB ADVENTURE NOBLE BACHELOR ADVENTURE BERYL CORONET ADVENTURE COPPER BEECHES ADVENTURE SCANDAL BOHEMIA SHERLOCK HOLMES ALWAYS WOMAN HAVE SELDOM HEARD MENTION UNDER OTHER NAME EYES ECLIPSES PREDOMINATES WHOLE THAT FELT EMOTION AKIN LOVE IRENE ADLER EMOTIONS THAT PARTICULARLY WERE ABHORRENT COLD PRECISE ADMIRABLY BALANCED MIND TAKE MOST PERFECT REASONING OBSERVING MACHINE THAT WORLD SEEN LOVER WOULD HAVE PLACED HIMSELF FALSE POSITION NEVER SPOKE SOFTER PASSIONS SAVE WITH GIBE SNEER THEY WERE ADMIRABLE THINGS OBSERVER—EXCELLENT DRAWING VEIL FROM MEN’S MOTIVES ACTIONS TRAINED REASONER ADMIT SUCH INTRUSIONS INTO DELICATE FINELY ADJUSTED TEMPERAMENT INTRODUCE DISTRACTING FACTOR WHICH MIGHT THROW DOUBT UPON MENTAL RESULTS GRIT SENSITIVE INSTRUMENT CRACK HIGH-POWER LENSES WOULD MORE DISTURBING THAN STRONG EMOTION NATURE SUCH THERE WOMAN THAT WOMAN LATE IRENE ADLER DUBIOUS QUESTIONABLE MEMORY SEEN LITTLE HOLMES LATELY MARRIAGE DRIFTED AWAY FROM EACH OTHER COMPLETE HAPPINESS HOME-CENTRED INTERESTS WHICH RISE AROUND FIRST FINDS HIMSELF MASTER ESTABLISHMENT WERE SUFFICIENT ABSORB ATTENTION WHILE HOLMES LOATHED EVERY FORM SOCIETY WITH WHOLE BOHEMIAN SOUL REMAINED LODGINGS BAKER STREET BURIED AMONG BOOKS ALTERNATING FROM WEEK WEEK BETWEEN COCAINE AMBITION DROWSINESS DRUG FIERCE ENERGY KEEN NATURE STILL EVER DEEPLY ATTRACTED STUDY CRIME OCCUPIED IMMENSE FACULTIES EXTRAORDINARY POWERS OBSERVATION FOLLOWING THOSE CLUES CLEARING THOSE MYSTERIES WHICH BEEN ABANDONED HOPELESS OFFICIAL POLICE FROM TIME TIME HEARD SOME VAGUE ACCOUNT DOINGS SUMMONS ODESSA CASE TREPOFF MURDER CLEARING SINGULAR TRAGEDY ATKINSON BROTHERS TRINCOMALEE FINALLY MISSION WHICH ACCOMPLISHED DELICATELY SUCCESSFULLY REIGNING FAMILY HOLLAND BEYOND THESE SIGNS ACTIVITY HOWEVER WHICH MERELY SHARED WITH READERS DAILY PRESS KNEW LITTLE FORMER FRIEND COMPANION NIGHT—IT TWENTIETH MARCH RETURNING FROM JOURNEY PATIENT RETURNED CIVIL PRACTICE WHEN THROUGH BAKER STREET PASSED WELL-REMEMBERED DOOR WHICH MUST ALWAYS ASSOCIATED MIND WITH WOOING WITH DARK INCIDENTS STUDY SCARLET SEIZED WITH KEEN DESIRE HOLMES AGAIN KNOW EMPLOYING EXTRAORDINARY POWERS ROOMS WERE BRILLIANTLY EVEN LOOKED TALL SPARE FIGURE PASS TWICE DARK SILHOUETTE AGAINST BLIND PACING ROOM SWIFTLY EAGERLY WITH HEAD SUNK UPON CHEST HANDS CLASPED BEHIND KNEW EVERY MOOD HABIT ATTITUDE MANNER TOLD THEIR STORY WORK AGAIN RISEN DRUG-CREATED DREAMS UPON SCENT SOME PROBLEM RANG BELL SHOWN CHAMBER WHICH FORMERLY BEEN PART MANNER EFFUSIVE SELDOM GLAD THINK WITH HARDLY WORD SPOKEN WITH KINDLY WAVED ARMCHAIR THREW ACROSS CASE CIGARS INDICATED SPIRIT CASE GASOGENE CORNER THEN STOOD BEFORE FIRE LOOKED OVER SINGULAR INTROSPECTIVE FASHION “WEDLOCK SUITS REMARKED THINK WATSON THAT HAVE SEVEN HALF POUNDS SINCE “SEVEN ANSWERED “INDEED SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT LITTLE MORE JUST TRIFLE MORE FANCY WATSON PRACTICE AGAIN OBSERVE TELL THAT INTENDED INTO HARNESS “THEN KNOW DEDUCE KNOW THAT HAVE BEEN GETTING YOURSELF VERY LATELY THAT HAVE MOST CLUMSY CARELESS SERVANT GIRL DEAR HOLMES SAID “THIS MUCH WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN BURNED LIVED CENTURIES TRUE THAT COUNTRY WALK THURSDAY CAME HOME DREADFUL MESS HAVE CHANGED CLOTHES CAN’T IMAGINE DEDUCE MARY JANE INCORRIGIBLE WIFE GIVEN NOTICE THERE AGAIN FAIL WORK CHUCKLED HIMSELF RUBBED LONG NERVOUS HANDS TOGETHER SIMPLICITY ITSELF SAID EYES TELL THAT INSIDE YOUR LEFT SHOE JUST WHERE FIRELIGHT STRIKES LEATHER SCORED ALMOST PARALLEL CUTS OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE BEEN CAUSED SOMEONE VERY CARELESSLY SCRAPED ROUND EDGES SOLE ORDER REMOVE CRUSTED FROM HENCE DOUBLE DEDUCTION THAT BEEN VILE WEATHER THAT PARTICULARLY MALIGNANT BOOT-SLITTING SPECIMEN LONDON SLAVEY YOUR PRACTICE GENTLEMAN WALKS INTO ROOMS SMELLING IODOFORM WITH BLACK MARK NITRATE SILVER UPON RIGHT FOREFINGER BULGE RIGHT SIDE TOP-HAT SHOW WHERE SECRETED STETHOSCOPE MUST DULL INDEED PRONOUNCE ACTIVE MEMBER MEDICAL PROFESSION COULD HELP LAUGHING EASE WITH WHICH EXPLAINED PROCESS DEDUCTION “WHEN HEAR GIVE YOUR REASONS REMARKED “THE THING ALWAYS APPEARS RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE THAT COULD EASILY MYSELF THOUGH EACH SUCCESSIVE INSTANCE YOUR REASONING BAFFLED UNTIL EXPLAIN YOUR PROCESS BELIEVE THAT EYES GOOD YOURS “QUITE ANSWERED LIGHTING CIGARETTE THROWING HIMSELF DOWN INTO ARMCHAIR “YOU OBSERVE DISTINCTION CLEAR EXAMPLE HAVE FREQUENTLY SEEN STEPS WHICH LEAD FROM HALL THIS ROOM “FREQUENTLY “HOW OFTEN “WELL SOME HUNDREDS TIMES “THEN MANY THERE “HOW MANY DON’T KNOW “QUITE HAVE OBSERVED HAVE SEEN THAT JUST POINT KNOW THAT THERE SEVENTEEN STEPS BECAUSE HAVE BOTH SEEN OBSERVED SINCE INTERESTED THESE LITTLE PROBLEMS SINCE GOOD ENOUGH CHRONICLE TRIFLING EXPERIENCES INTERESTED THIS THREW OVER SHEET THICK PINK-TINTED NOTEPAPER WHICH BEEN LYING OPEN UPON TABLE CAME LAST POST SAID “READ ALOUD NOTE UNDATED WITHOUT EITHER SIGNATURE ADDRESS “THERE WILL CALL UPON TO-NIGHT QUARTER EIGHT O’CLOCK SAID GENTLEMAN DESIRES CONSULT UPON MATTER VERY DEEPEST MOMENT YOUR RECENT SERVICES ROYAL HOUSES EUROPE HAVE SHOWN THAT SAFELY TRUSTED WITH MATTERS WHICH IMPORTANCE WHICH HARDLY EXAGGERATED THIS ACCOUNT HAVE FROM QUARTERS RECEIVED YOUR CHAMBER THEN THAT HOUR TAKE AMISS YOUR VISITOR WEAR MASK “THIS INDEED MYSTERY REMARKED “WHAT IMAGINE THAT MEANS HAVE DATA CAPITAL MISTAKE THEORISE BEFORE DATA INSENSIBLY BEGINS TWIST FACTS SUIT THEORIES INSTEAD THEORIES SUIT FACTS NOTE ITSELF WHAT DEDUCE FROM CAREFULLY EXAMINED WRITING PAPER UPON WHICH WRITTEN “THE WROTE PRESUMABLY WELL REMARKED ENDEAVOURING IMITATE COMPANION’S PROCESSES “SUCH PAPER COULD BOUGHT UNDER HALF CROWN PACKET PECULIARLY STRONG STIFF “PECULIAR—THAT VERY WORD SAID HOLMES ENGLISH PAPER HOLD LIGHT LARGE WITH SMALL LARGE WITH SMALL WOVEN INTO TEXTURE PAPER “WHAT MAKE THAT ASKED HOLMES “THE NAME MAKER DOUBT MONOGRAM RATHER “NOT WITH SMALL STANDS ‘GESELLSCHAFT WHICH GERMAN ‘COMPANY CUSTOMARY CONTRACTION LIKE COURSE STANDS ‘PAPIER GLANCE CONTINENTAL GAZETTEER TOOK DOWN HEAVY BROWN VOLUME FROM SHELVES “EGLOW EGLONITZ—HERE EGRIA GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY—IN BOHEMIA FROM CARLSBAD ‘REMARKABLE BEING SCENE DEATH WALLENSTEIN NUMEROUS GLASS-FACTORIES PAPER-MILLS WHAT MAKE THAT EYES SPARKLED SENT GREAT BLUE TRIUMPHANT CLOUD FROM CIGARETTE “THE PAPER MADE BOHEMIA SAID “PRECISELY WROTE NOTE GERMAN NOTE PECULIAR CONSTRUCTION SENTENCE—‘THIS ACCOUNT HAVE FROM QUARTERS RECEIVED FRENCHMAN RUSSIAN COULD HAVE WRITTEN THAT GERMAN UNCOURTEOUS VERBS ONLY REMAINS THEREFORE DISCOVER WHAT WANTED THIS GERMAN WRITES UPON BOHEMIAN PAPER PREFERS WEARING MASK SHOWING FACE HERE COMES MISTAKEN RESOLVE DOUBTS SPOKE THERE SHARP SOUND HORSES’ HOOFS GRATING WHEELS AGAINST CURB FOLLOWED SHARP PULL BELL HOLMES WHISTLED PAIR SOUND SAID “YES CONTINUED GLANCING WINDOW NICE LITTLE BROUGHAM PAIR BEAUTIES HUNDRED FIFTY GUINEAS APIECE THERE’S MONEY THIS CASE WATSON THERE NOTHING ELSE THINK THAT BETTER HOLMES “NOT DOCTOR STAY WHERE LOST WITHOUT BOSWELL THIS PROMISES INTERESTING WOULD PITY MISS “BUT YOUR CLIENT—” “NEVER MIND WANT YOUR HELP HERE COMES DOWN THAT ARMCHAIR DOCTOR GIVE YOUR BEST ATTENTION SLOW HEAVY STEP WHICH BEEN HEARD UPON STAIRS PASSAGE PAUSED IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE DOOR THEN THERE LOUD AUTHORITATIVE “COME SAID HOLMES ENTERED COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN LESS THAN FEET INCHES HEIGHT WITH CHEST LIMBS HERCULES DRESS RICH WITH RICHNESS WHICH WOULD ENGLAND LOOKED UPON AKIN TASTE HEAVY BANDS ASTRAKHAN WERE SLASHED ACROSS SLEEVES FRONTS DOUBLE-BREASTED COAT WHILE DEEP BLUE CLOAK WHICH THROWN OVER SHOULDERS LINED WITH FLAME-COLOURED SILK SECURED NECK WITH BROOCH WHICH CONSISTED SINGLE FLAMING BERYL BOOTS WHICH EXTENDED HALFWAY CALVES WHICH WERE TRIMMED TOPS WITH RICH BROWN COMPLETED IMPRESSION BARBARIC OPULENCE WHICH SUGGESTED WHOLE APPEARANCE CARRIED BROAD-BRIMMED HAND WHILE WORE ACROSS UPPER PART FACE EXTENDING DOWN PAST CHEEKBONES BLACK VIZARD MASK WHICH APPARENTLY ADJUSTED THAT VERY MOMENT HAND STILL RAISED ENTERED FROM LOWER PART FACE APPEARED STRONG CHARACTER WITH THICK HANGING LONG STRAIGHT CHIN SUGGESTIVE RESOLUTION PUSHED LENGTH OBSTINACY “YOU NOTE ASKED WITH DEEP HARSH VOICE STRONGLY MARKED GERMAN ACCENT TOLD THAT WOULD CALL LOOKED FROM OTHER UNCERTAIN WHICH ADDRESS “PRAY TAKE SEAT SAID HOLMES “THIS FRIEND COLLEAGUE WATSON OCCASIONALLY GOOD ENOUGH HELP CASES WHOM HAVE HONOUR ADDRESS “YOU ADDRESS COUNT KRAMM BOHEMIAN NOBLEMAN UNDERSTAND THAT THIS GENTLEMAN YOUR FRIEND HONOUR DISCRETION WHOM TRUST WITH MATTER MOST EXTREME IMPORTANCE SHOULD MUCH PREFER COMMUNICATE WITH ALONE ROSE HOLMES CAUGHT WRIST PUSHED BACK INTO CHAIR BOTH NONE SAID “YOU BEFORE THIS GENTLEMAN ANYTHING WHICH COUNT SHRUGGED BROAD SHOULDERS “THEN MUST BEGIN SAID BINDING BOTH ABSOLUTE SECRECY YEARS THAT TIME MATTER WILL IMPORTANCE PRESENT MUCH THAT SUCH WEIGHT HAVE INFLUENCE UPON EUROPEAN HISTORY PROMISE SAID HOLMES “AND “YOU WILL EXCUSE THIS MASK CONTINUED STRANGE VISITOR “THE AUGUST PERSON EMPLOYS WISHES AGENT UNKNOWN CONFESS ONCE THAT TITLE WHICH HAVE JUST CALLED MYSELF EXACTLY AWARE SAID HOLMES DRYLY “THE CIRCUMSTANCES GREAT DELICACY EVERY PRECAUTION TAKEN QUENCH WHAT MIGHT GROW IMMENSE SCANDAL SERIOUSLY COMPROMISE REIGNING FAMILIES EUROPE SPEAK PLAINLY MATTER IMPLICATES GREAT HOUSE ORMSTEIN HEREDITARY KINGS BOHEMIA ALSO AWARE THAT MURMURED HOLMES SETTLING HIMSELF DOWN ARMCHAIR CLOSING EYES VISITOR GLANCED WITH SOME APPARENT SURPRISE LANGUID LOUNGING FIGURE BEEN DOUBT DEPICTED MOST INCISIVE REASONER MOST ENERGETIC AGENT EUROPE HOLMES SLOWLY REOPENED EYES LOOKED IMPATIENTLY GIGANTIC CLIENT YOUR MAJESTY WOULD CONDESCEND STATE YOUR CASE REMARKED SHOULD BETTER ABLE ADVISE SPRANG FROM CHAIR PACED DOWN ROOM UNCONTROLLABLE AGITATION THEN WITH GESTURE DESPERATION TORE MASK FROM FACE HURLED UPON GROUND “YOU RIGHT CRIED KING SHOULD ATTEMPT CONCEAL “WHY INDEED MURMURED HOLMES “YOUR MAJESTY SPOKEN BEFORE AWARE THAT ADDRESSING WILHELM GOTTSREICH SIGISMOND ORMSTEIN GRAND DUKE CASSEL-FELSTEIN HEREDITARY KING BOHEMIA “BUT UNDERSTAND SAID STRANGE VISITOR SITTING DOWN ONCE MORE PASSING HAND OVER HIGH WHITE FOREHEAD “YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ACCUSTOMED DOING SUCH BUSINESS PERSON MATTER DELICATE THAT COULD CONFIDE AGENT WITHOUT PUTTING MYSELF POWER HAVE COME INCOGNITO FROM PRAGUE PURPOSE CONSULTING “THEN PRAY CONSULT SAID HOLMES SHUTTING EYES ONCE MORE “THE FACTS BRIEFLY THESE SOME FIVE YEARS DURING LENGTHY VISIT WARSAW MADE ACQUAINTANCE WELL-KNOWN ADVENTURESS IRENE ADLER NAME DOUBT FAMILIAR “KINDLY LOOK INDEX DOCTOR MURMURED HOLMES WITHOUT OPENING EYES MANY YEARS ADOPTED SYSTEM DOCKETING PARAGRAPHS CONCERNING THINGS THAT DIFFICULT NAME SUBJECT PERSON WHICH COULD ONCE FURNISH INFORMATION THIS CASE FOUND BIOGRAPHY SANDWICHED BETWEEN THAT HEBREW RABBI THAT STAFF-COMMANDER WRITTEN MONOGRAPH UPON DEEP-SEA FISHES “LET SAID HOLMES “HUM BORN JERSEY YEAR CONTRALTO—HUM SCALA PRIMA DONNA IMPERIAL OPERA WARSAW—YES RETIRED FROM OPERATIC STAGE—HA LIVING LONDON—QUITE YOUR MAJESTY UNDERSTAND BECAME ENTANGLED WITH THIS YOUNG PERSON WROTE SOME COMPROMISING LETTERS DESIROUS GETTING THOSE LETTERS BACK “PRECISELY HOW—” “WAS THERE SECRET MARRIAGE “NONE LEGAL PAPERS CERTIFICATES “NONE “THEN FAIL FOLLOW YOUR MAJESTY THIS YOUNG PERSON SHOULD PRODUCE LETTERS BLACKMAILING OTHER PURPOSES PROVE THEIR AUTHENTICITY “THERE WRITING “POOH POOH FORGERY PRIVATE NOTE-PAPER “STOLEN SEAL “IMITATED PHOTOGRAPH “BOUGHT WERE BOTH PHOTOGRAPH DEAR THAT VERY YOUR MAJESTY INDEED COMMITTED INDISCRETION MAD—INSANE “YOU HAVE COMPROMISED YOURSELF SERIOUSLY ONLY CROWN PRINCE THEN YOUNG THIRTY MUST RECOVERED HAVE TRIED FAILED “YOUR MAJESTY MUST MUST BOUGHT “SHE WILL SELL “STOLEN THEN “FIVE ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TWICE BURGLARS RANSACKED HOUSE ONCE DIVERTED LUGGAGE WHEN TRAVELLED TWICE BEEN WAYLAID THERE BEEN RESULT SIGN “ABSOLUTELY NONE HOLMES LAUGHED QUITE PRETTY LITTLE PROBLEM SAID “BUT VERY SERIOUS RETURNED KING REPROACHFULLY “VERY INDEED WHAT DOES PROPOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH RUIN “BUT ABOUT MARRIED HAVE HEARD CLOTILDE LOTHMAN SAXE-MENINGEN SECOND DAUGHTER KING SCANDINAVIA KNOW STRICT PRINCIPLES FAMILY HERSELF VERY SOUL DELICACY SHADOW DOUBT CONDUCT WOULD BRING MATTER “AND IRENE ADLER “THREATENS SEND THEM PHOTOGRAPH WILL KNOW THAT WILL KNOW SOUL STEEL FACE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN MIND MOST RESOLUTE RATHER THAN SHOULD MARRY ANOTHER WOMAN THERE LENGTHS WHICH WOULD GO—NONE “YOU SURE THAT SENT SURE “AND “BECAUSE SAID THAT WOULD SEND WHEN BETROTHAL PUBLICLY PROCLAIMED THAT WILL NEXT MONDAY THEN HAVE THREE DAYS SAID HOLMES WITH YAWN “THAT VERY FORTUNATE HAVE MATTERS IMPORTANCE LOOK INTO JUST PRESENT YOUR MAJESTY WILL COURSE STAY LONDON PRESENT “CERTAINLY WILL FIND LANGHAM UNDER NAME COUNT KRAMM “THEN SHALL DROP LINE KNOW PROGRESS “PRAY SHALL ANXIETY “THEN MONEY “YOU HAVE CARTE BLANCHE “ABSOLUTELY TELL THAT WOULD GIVE PROVINCES KINGDOM HAVE THAT PHOTOGRAPH “AND PRESENT EXPENSES KING TOOK HEAVY CHAMOIS LEATHER FROM UNDER CLOAK LAID TABLE “THERE THREE HUNDRED POUNDS GOLD SEVEN HUNDRED NOTES SAID HOLMES SCRIBBLED RECEIPT UPON SHEET NOTE-BOOK HANDED “AND MADEMOISELLE’S ADDRESS ASKED BRIONY LODGE SERPENTINE AVENUE JOHN’S WOOD HOLMES TOOK NOTE “ONE OTHER QUESTION SAID “WAS PHOTOGRAPH CABINET “THEN GOOD-NIGHT YOUR MAJESTY TRUST THAT SHALL SOON HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS GOOD-NIGHT WATSON ADDED WHEELS ROYAL BROUGHAM ROLLED DOWN STREET WILL GOOD ENOUGH CALL TO-MORROW AFTERNOON THREE O’CLOCK SHOULD LIKE CHAT THIS LITTLE MATTER OVER WITH THREE O’CLOCK PRECISELY BAKER STREET HOLMES RETURNED LANDLADY INFORMED THAT LEFT HOUSE SHORTLY AFTER EIGHT O’CLOCK MORNING DOWN BESIDE FIRE HOWEVER WITH INTENTION AWAITING HOWEVER LONG MIGHT ALREADY DEEPLY INTERESTED INQUIRY THOUGH SURROUNDED NONE GRIM STRANGE FEATURES WHICH WERE ASSOCIATED WITH CRIMES WHICH HAVE ALREADY RECORDED STILL NATURE CASE EXALTED STATION CLIENT GAVE CHARACTER INDEED APART FROM NATURE INVESTIGATION WHICH FRIEND HAND THERE SOMETHING MASTERLY GRASP SITUATION KEEN INCISIVE REASONING WHICH MADE PLEASURE STUDY SYSTEM WORK FOLLOW QUICK SUBTLE METHODS WHICH DISENTANGLED MOST INEXTRICABLE MYSTERIES ACCUSTOMED INVARIABLE SUCCESS THAT VERY POSSIBILITY FAILING CEASED ENTER INTO HEAD CLOSE UPON FOUR BEFORE DOOR OPENED DRUNKEN-LOOKING GROOM ILL-KEMPT SIDE-WHISKERED WITH INFLAMED FACE DISREPUTABLE CLOTHES WALKED INTO ROOM ACCUSTOMED FRIEND’S AMAZING POWERS DISGUISES LOOK THREE TIMES BEFORE CERTAIN THAT INDEED WITH VANISHED INTO BEDROOM WHENCE EMERGED FIVE MINUTES TWEED-SUITED RESPECTABLE PUTTING HANDS INTO POCKETS STRETCHED LEGS FRONT FIRE LAUGHED HEARTILY SOME MINUTES “WELL REALLY CRIED THEN CHOKED LAUGHED AGAIN UNTIL OBLIGED BACK LIMP HELPLESS CHAIR “WHAT “IT’S QUITE FUNNY SURE COULD NEVER GUESS EMPLOYED MORNING WHAT ENDED DOING CAN’T IMAGINE SUPPOSE THAT HAVE BEEN WATCHING HABITS PERHAPS HOUSE MISS IRENE ADLER “QUITE SEQUEL RATHER UNUSUAL WILL TELL HOWEVER LEFT HOUSE LITTLE AFTER EIGHT O’CLOCK THIS MORNING CHARACTER GROOM WORK THERE WONDERFUL SYMPATHY FREEMASONRY AMONG HORSEY THEM WILL KNOW THAT THERE KNOW SOON FOUND BRIONY LODGE BIJOU VILLA WITH GARDEN BACK BUILT FRONT RIGHT ROAD STORIES CHUBB LOCK DOOR LARGE SITTING-ROOM RIGHT SIDE WELL FURNISHED WITH LONG WINDOWS ALMOST FLOOR THOSE PREPOSTEROUS ENGLISH WINDOW FASTENERS WHICH CHILD COULD OPEN BEHIND THERE NOTHING REMARKABLE SAVE THAT PASSAGE WINDOW COULD REACHED FROM COACH-HOUSE WALKED ROUND EXAMINED CLOSELY FROM EVERY POINT VIEW WITHOUT NOTING ANYTHING ELSE INTEREST THEN LOUNGED DOWN STREET FOUND EXPECTED THAT THERE MEWS LANE WHICH RUNS DOWN WALL GARDEN LENT OSTLERS HAND RUBBING DOWN THEIR HORSES RECEIVED EXCHANGE TWOPENCE GLASS HALF-AND-HALF FILLS SHAG TOBACCO MUCH INFORMATION COULD DESIRE ABOUT MISS ADLER NOTHING HALF DOZEN OTHER PEOPLE NEIGHBOURHOOD WHOM LEAST INTERESTED WHOSE BIOGRAPHIES COMPELLED LISTEN “AND WHAT IRENE ADLER ASKED TURNED MEN’S HEADS DOWN THAT PART DAINTIEST THING UNDER BONNET THIS PLANET SERPENTINE-MEWS LIVES QUIETLY SINGS CONCERTS DRIVES FIVE EVERY RETURNS SEVEN SHARP DINNER SELDOM GOES OTHER TIMES EXCEPT WHEN SINGS ONLY MALE VISITOR GOOD DEAL DARK HANDSOME DASHING NEVER CALLS LESS THAN ONCE OFTEN TWICE GODFREY NORTON INNER TEMPLE ADVANTAGES CABMAN CONFIDANT THEY DRIVEN HOME DOZEN TIMES FROM SERPENTINE-MEWS KNEW ABOUT WHEN LISTENED THEY TELL BEGAN WALK DOWN NEAR BRIONY LODGE ONCE MORE THINK OVER PLAN CAMPAIGN “THIS GODFREY NORTON EVIDENTLY IMPORTANT FACTOR MATTER LAWYER THAT SOUNDED OMINOUS WHAT RELATION BETWEEN THEM WHAT OBJECT REPEATED VISITS CLIENT FRIEND MISTRESS FORMER PROBABLY TRANSFERRED PHOTOGRAPH KEEPING LATTER LESS LIKELY ISSUE THIS QUESTION DEPENDED WHETHER SHOULD CONTINUE WORK BRIONY LODGE TURN ATTENTION GENTLEMAN’S CHAMBERS TEMPLE DELICATE POINT WIDENED FIELD INQUIRY FEAR THAT BORE WITH THESE DETAILS HAVE LITTLE DIFFICULTIES UNDERSTAND SITUATION FOLLOWING CLOSELY ANSWERED STILL BALANCING MATTER MIND WHEN HANSOM DROVE BRIONY LODGE GENTLEMAN SPRANG REMARKABLY HANDSOME DARK AQUILINE MOUSTACHED—EVIDENTLY WHOM HEARD APPEARED GREAT HURRY SHOUTED CABMAN WAIT BRUSHED PAST MAID OPENED DOOR WITH THOROUGHLY HOME HOUSE ABOUT HALF HOUR COULD CATCH GLIMPSES WINDOWS SITTING-ROOM PACING DOWN TALKING EXCITEDLY WAVING ARMS COULD NOTHING PRESENTLY EMERGED LOOKING EVEN MORE FLURRIED THAN BEFORE STEPPED PULLED GOLD WATCH FROM POCKET LOOKED EARNESTLY ‘DRIVE LIKE DEVIL SHOUTED ‘FIRST GROSS HANKEY’S REGENT STREET THEN CHURCH MONICA EDGEWARE ROAD HALF GUINEA TWENTY MINUTES “AWAY THEY WENT JUST WONDERING WHETHER SHOULD WELL FOLLOW THEM WHEN LANE CAME NEAT LITTLE LANDAU COACHMAN WITH COAT ONLY HALF-BUTTONED UNDER WHILE TAGS HARNESS WERE STICKING BUCKLES HADN’T PULLED BEFORE SHOT HALL DOOR INTO ONLY CAUGHT GLIMPSE MOMENT LOVELY WOMAN WITH FACE THAT MIGHT ‘THE CHURCH MONICA JOHN CRIED ‘AND HALF SOVEREIGN REACH TWENTY MINUTES “THIS QUITE GOOD LOSE WATSON JUST BALANCING WHETHER SHOULD WHETHER SHOULD PERCH BEHIND LANDAU WHEN CAME THROUGH STREET DRIVER LOOKED TWICE SUCH SHABBY FARE JUMPED BEFORE COULD OBJECT ‘THE CHURCH MONICA SAID ‘AND HALF SOVEREIGN REACH TWENTY MINUTES TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES TWELVE COURSE CLEAR ENOUGH WHAT WIND CABBY DROVE FAST DON’T THINK EVER DROVE FASTER OTHERS WERE THERE BEFORE LANDAU WITH THEIR STEAMING HORSES WERE FRONT DOOR WHEN ARRIVED PAID HURRIED INTO CHURCH THERE SOUL THERE SAVE WHOM FOLLOWED SURPLICED CLERGYMAN SEEMED EXPOSTULATING WITH THEM THEY WERE THREE STANDING KNOT FRONT ALTAR LOUNGED SIDE AISLE LIKE OTHER IDLER DROPPED INTO CHURCH SUDDENLY SURPRISE THREE ALTAR FACED ROUND GODFREY NORTON CAME RUNNING HARD COULD TOWARDS ‘THANK CRIED ‘YOU’LL COME COME ‘WHAT THEN ASKED ‘COME COME ONLY THREE MINUTES WON’T LEGAL HALF-DRAGGED ALTAR BEFORE KNEW WHERE FOUND MYSELF MUMBLING RESPONSES WHICH WERE WHISPERED VOUCHING THINGS WHICH KNEW NOTHING GENERALLY ASSISTING SECURE TYING IRENE ADLER SPINSTER GODFREY NORTON BACHELOR DONE INSTANT THERE GENTLEMAN THANKING SIDE LADY OTHER WHILE CLERGYMAN BEAMED FRONT MOST PREPOSTEROUS POSITION WHICH EVER FOUND MYSELF LIFE THOUGHT THAT STARTED LAUGHING JUST SEEMS THAT THERE BEEN SOME INFORMALITY ABOUT THEIR LICENSE THAT CLERGYMAN ABSOLUTELY REFUSED MARRY THEM WITHOUT WITNESS SOME SORT THAT LUCKY APPEARANCE SAVED BRIDEGROOM FROM HAVING SALLY INTO STREETS SEARCH BEST BRIDE GAVE SOVEREIGN MEAN WEAR WATCH CHAIN MEMORY OCCASION “THIS VERY UNEXPECTED TURN AFFAIRS SAID “AND WHAT THEN “WELL FOUND PLANS VERY SERIOUSLY MENACED LOOKED PAIR MIGHT TAKE IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE NECESSITATE VERY PROMPT ENERGETIC MEASURES PART CHURCH DOOR HOWEVER THEY SEPARATED DRIVING BACK TEMPLE HOUSE SHALL DRIVE PARK FIVE USUAL SAID LEFT HEARD MORE THEY DROVE AWAY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS WENT MAKE ARRANGEMENTS “WHICH “SOME COLD BEEF GLASS BEER ANSWERED RINGING BELL HAVE BEEN BUSY THINK FOOD LIKELY BUSIER STILL THIS EVENING DOCTOR SHALL WANT YOUR CO-OPERATION SHALL DELIGHTED “YOU DON’T MIND BREAKING “NOT LEAST “NOR RUNNING CHANCE ARREST “NOT GOOD CAUSE CAUSE EXCELLENT “THEN YOUR SURE THAT MIGHT RELY “BUT WHAT WISH “WHEN TURNER BROUGHT TRAY WILL MAKE CLEAR SAID TURNED HUNGRILY SIMPLE FARE THAT LANDLADY PROVIDED MUST DISCUSS WHILE HAVE MUCH TIME NEARLY FIVE HOURS MUST SCENE ACTION MISS IRENE MADAME RATHER RETURNS FROM DRIVE SEVEN MUST BRIONY LODGE MEET “AND WHAT THEN “YOU MUST LEAVE THAT HAVE ALREADY ARRANGED WHAT OCCUR THERE ONLY POINT WHICH MUST INSIST MUST INTERFERE COME WHAT UNDERSTAND NEUTRAL NOTHING WHATEVER THERE WILL PROBABLY SOME SMALL UNPLEASANTNESS JOIN WILL BEING CONVEYED INTO HOUSE FOUR FIVE MINUTES AFTERWARDS SITTING-ROOM WINDOW WILL OPEN STATION YOURSELF CLOSE THAT OPEN WINDOW “YES “YOU WATCH WILL VISIBLE “YES “AND WHEN RAISE HAND—SO—YOU WILL THROW INTO ROOM WHAT GIVE THROW WILL SAME TIME RAISE FIRE QUITE FOLLOW “ENTIRELY NOTHING VERY FORMIDABLE SAID TAKING LONG CIGAR-SHAPED ROLL FROM POCKET ORDINARY PLUMBER’S SMOKE-ROCKET FITTED WITH EITHER MAKE SELF-LIGHTING YOUR TASK CONFINED THAT WHEN RAISE YOUR FIRE WILL TAKEN QUITE NUMBER PEOPLE THEN WALK STREET WILL REJOIN MINUTES HOPE THAT HAVE MADE MYSELF CLEAR REMAIN NEUTRAL NEAR WINDOW WATCH SIGNAL THROW THIS OBJECT THEN RAISE FIRE WAIT CORNER STREET “PRECISELY “THEN ENTIRELY RELY “THAT EXCELLENT THINK PERHAPS ALMOST TIME THAT PREPARE ROLE HAVE PLAY DISAPPEARED INTO BEDROOM RETURNED MINUTES CHARACTER AMIABLE SIMPLE-MINDED NONCONFORMIST CLERGYMAN BROAD BLACK BAGGY TROUSERS WHITE SYMPATHETIC SMILE GENERAL LOOK PEERING BENEVOLENT CURIOSITY WERE SUCH JOHN HARE ALONE COULD HAVE EQUALLED MERELY THAT HOLMES CHANGED COSTUME EXPRESSION MANNER VERY SOUL SEEMED VARY WITH EVERY FRESH PART THAT ASSUMED STAGE LOST FINE ACTOR EVEN SCIENCE LOST ACUTE REASONER WHEN BECAME SPECIALIST CRIME QUARTER PAST WHEN LEFT BAKER STREET STILL WANTED MINUTES HOUR WHEN FOUND OURSELVES SERPENTINE AVENUE ALREADY DUSK LAMPS WERE JUST BEING LIGHTED PACED DOWN FRONT BRIONY LODGE WAITING COMING OCCUPANT HOUSE JUST SUCH PICTURED FROM SHERLOCK HOLMES’ SUCCINCT DESCRIPTION LOCALITY APPEARED LESS PRIVATE THAN EXPECTED CONTRARY SMALL STREET QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD REMARKABLY ANIMATED THERE GROUP SHABBILY DRESSED SMOKING LAUGHING CORNER SCISSORS-GRINDER WITH WHEEL GUARDSMEN WERE FLIRTING WITH NURSE-GIRL SEVERAL WELL-DRESSED YOUNG WERE LOUNGING DOWN WITH CIGARS THEIR MOUTHS “YOU REMARKED HOLMES PACED FRONT HOUSE “THIS MARRIAGE RATHER SIMPLIFIES MATTERS PHOTOGRAPH BECOMES DOUBLE-EDGED WEAPON CHANCES THAT WOULD AVERSE BEING SEEN GODFREY NORTON CLIENT COMING EYES PRINCESS QUESTION WHERE FIND PHOTOGRAPH “WHERE INDEED MOST UNLIKELY THAT CARRIES ABOUT WITH CABINET SIZE LARGE EASY CONCEALMENT ABOUT WOMAN’S DRESS KNOWS THAT KING CAPABLE HAVING WAYLAID SEARCHED ATTEMPTS SORT HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE TAKE THEN THAT DOES CARRY ABOUT WITH “WHERE THEN “HER BANKER LAWYER THERE THAT DOUBLE POSSIBILITY INCLINED THINK NEITHER WOMEN NATURALLY SECRETIVE THEY LIKE THEIR SECRETING SHOULD HAND OVER ANYONE ELSE COULD TRUST GUARDIANSHIP COULD TELL WHAT INDIRECT POLITICAL INFLUENCE MIGHT BROUGHT BEAR UPON BUSINESS BESIDES REMEMBER THAT RESOLVED WITHIN DAYS MUST WHERE HANDS UPON MUST HOUSE “BUT TWICE BEEN BURGLED “PSHAW THEY KNOW LOOK “BUT WILL LOOK WILL LOOK “WHAT THEN WILL SHOW “BUT WILL REFUSE “SHE WILL ABLE HEAR RUMBLE WHEELS CARRIAGE CARRY ORDERS LETTER SPOKE GLEAM SIDELIGHTS CARRIAGE CAME ROUND CURVE AVENUE SMART LITTLE LANDAU WHICH RATTLED DOOR BRIONY LODGE PULLED LOAFING CORNER DASHED FORWARD OPEN DOOR HOPE EARNING COPPER ELBOWED AWAY ANOTHER LOAFER RUSHED WITH SAME INTENTION FIERCE QUARREL BROKE WHICH INCREASED GUARDSMEN TOOK SIDES WITH LOUNGERS SCISSORS-GRINDER EQUALLY UPON OTHER SIDE BLOW STRUCK INSTANT LADY STEPPED FROM CARRIAGE CENTRE LITTLE KNOT FLUSHED STRUGGLING STRUCK SAVAGELY EACH OTHER WITH THEIR FISTS STICKS HOLMES DASHED INTO CROWD PROTECT LADY JUST REACHED GAVE DROPPED GROUND WITH BLOOD RUNNING FREELY DOWN FACE FALL GUARDSMEN TOOK THEIR HEELS DIRECTION LOUNGERS OTHER WHILE NUMBER BETTER DRESSED PEOPLE WATCHED SCUFFLE WITHOUT TAKING PART CROWDED HELP LADY ATTEND INJURED IRENE ADLER WILL STILL CALL HURRIED STEPS STOOD WITH SUPERB FIGURE OUTLINED AGAINST LIGHTS HALL LOOKING BACK INTO STREET POOR GENTLEMAN MUCH HURT ASKED DEAD CRIED SEVERAL VOICES THERE’S LIFE SHOUTED ANOTHER “BUT HE’LL GONE BEFORE HOSPITAL “HE’S BRAVE FELLOW SAID WOMAN “THEY WOULD HAVE LADY’S PURSE WATCH HADN’T BEEN THEY WERE GANG ROUGH HE’S BREATHING CAN’T STREET BRING MARM “SURELY BRING INTO SITTING-ROOM THERE COMFORTABLE SOFA THIS PLEASE SLOWLY SOLEMNLY BORNE INTO BRIONY LODGE LAID PRINCIPAL ROOM WHILE STILL OBSERVED PROCEEDINGS FROM POST WINDOW LAMPS BEEN BLINDS BEEN DRAWN THAT COULD HOLMES UPON COUCH KNOW WHETHER SEIZED WITH COMPUNCTION THAT MOMENT PART PLAYING KNOW THAT NEVER FELT MORE HEARTILY ASHAMED MYSELF LIFE THAN WHEN BEAUTIFUL CREATURE AGAINST WHOM CONSPIRING GRACE KINDLINESS WITH WHICH WAITED UPON INJURED WOULD BLACKEST TREACHERY HOLMES DRAW BACK FROM PART WHICH INTRUSTED HARDENED HEART TOOK SMOKE-ROCKET FROM UNDER ULSTER AFTER THOUGHT INJURING PREVENTING FROM INJURING ANOTHER HOLMES UPON COUCH MOTION LIKE NEED MAID RUSHED ACROSS THREW OPEN WINDOW SAME INSTANT RAISE HAND SIGNAL TOSSED ROCKET INTO ROOM WITH “FIRE WORD SOONER MOUTH THAN WHOLE CROWD SPECTATORS WELL DRESSED ILL—GENTLEMEN OSTLERS SERVANT MAIDS—JOINED GENERAL SHRIEK “FIRE THICK CLOUDS SMOKE CURLED THROUGH ROOM OPEN WINDOW CAUGHT GLIMPSE RUSHING FIGURES MOMENT LATER VOICE HOLMES FROM WITHIN ASSURING THEM THAT FALSE ALARM SLIPPING THROUGH SHOUTING CROWD MADE CORNER STREET MINUTES REJOICED FIND FRIEND’S MINE AWAY FROM SCENE UPROAR WALKED SWIFTLY SILENCE SOME MINUTES UNTIL TURNED DOWN QUIET STREETS WHICH LEAD TOWARDS EDGEWARE ROAD “YOU VERY NICELY DOCTOR REMARKED “NOTHING COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER RIGHT “YOU HAVE PHOTOGRAPH KNOW WHERE “AND FIND “SHE SHOWED TOLD WOULD STILL DARK WISH MAKE MYSTERY SAID LAUGHING “THE MATTER PERFECTLY SIMPLE COURSE THAT EVERYONE STREET ACCOMPLICE THEY WERE ENGAGED EVENING GUESSED MUCH “THEN WHEN BROKE LITTLE MOIST PAINT PALM HAND RUSHED FORWARD FELL DOWN CLAPPED HAND FACE BECAME PITEOUS SPECTACLE TRICK “THAT ALSO COULD FATHOM “THEN THEY CARRIED BOUND HAVE WHAT ELSE COULD INTO SITTING-ROOM WHICH VERY ROOM WHICH SUSPECTED BETWEEN THAT BEDROOM DETERMINED WHICH THEY LAID COUCH MOTIONED THEY WERE COMPELLED OPEN WINDOW YOUR CHANCE “HOW THAT HELP ALL-IMPORTANT WHEN WOMAN THINKS THAT HOUSE FIRE INSTINCT ONCE RUSH THING WHICH VALUES MOST PERFECTLY OVERPOWERING IMPULSE HAVE MORE THAN ONCE TAKEN ADVANTAGE CASE DARLINGTON SUBSTITUTION SCANDAL ALSO ARNSWORTH CASTLE BUSINESS MARRIED WOMAN GRABS BABY UNMARRIED REACHES JEWEL-BOX CLEAR THAT LADY TO-DAY NOTHING HOUSE MORE PRECIOUS THAN WHAT QUEST WOULD RUSH SECURE ALARM FIRE ADMIRABLY DONE SMOKE SHOUTING WERE ENOUGH SHAKE NERVES STEEL RESPONDED BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRAPH RECESS BEHIND SLIDING PANEL JUST ABOVE RIGHT BELL-PULL THERE INSTANT CAUGHT GLIMPSE HALF DREW WHEN CRIED THAT FALSE ALARM REPLACED GLANCED ROCKET RUSHED FROM ROOM HAVE SEEN SINCE ROSE MAKING EXCUSES ESCAPED FROM HOUSE HESITATED WHETHER ATTEMPT SECURE PHOTOGRAPH ONCE COACHMAN COME WATCHING NARROWLY SEEMED SAFER WAIT LITTLE OVER-PRECIPITANCE RUIN “AND ASKED “OUR QUEST PRACTICALLY FINISHED SHALL CALL WITH KING TO-MORROW WITH CARE COME WITH WILL SHOWN INTO SITTING-ROOM WAIT LADY PROBABLE THAT WHEN COMES FIND NEITHER PHOTOGRAPH MIGHT SATISFACTION MAJESTY REGAIN WITH HANDS “AND WHEN WILL CALL EIGHT MORNING WILL THAT SHALL HAVE CLEAR FIELD BESIDES MUST PROMPT THIS MARRIAGE MEAN COMPLETE CHANGE LIFE HABITS MUST WIRE KING WITHOUT DELAY REACHED BAKER STREET STOPPED DOOR SEARCHING POCKETS WHEN SOMEONE PASSING SAID “GOOD-NIGHT MISTER SHERLOCK HOLMES THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE PAVEMENT TIME GREETING APPEARED COME FROM SLIM YOUTH ULSTER HURRIED “I’VE HEARD THAT VOICE BEFORE SAID HOLMES STARING DOWN DIMLY STREET “NOW WONDER DEUCE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN SLEPT BAKER STREET THAT NIGHT WERE ENGAGED UPON TOAST COFFEE MORNING WHEN KING BOHEMIA RUSHED INTO ROOM “YOU HAVE REALLY CRIED GRASPING SHERLOCK HOLMES EITHER SHOULDER LOOKING EAGERLY INTO FACE “NOT “BUT HAVE HOPES HAVE HOPES “THEN COME IMPATIENCE GONE MUST HAVE BROUGHAM WAITING “THEN THAT WILL SIMPLIFY MATTERS DESCENDED STARTED ONCE MORE BRIONY LODGE “IRENE ADLER MARRIED REMARKED HOLMES “MARRIED WHEN “YESTERDAY “BUT WHOM ENGLISH LAWYER NAMED NORTON “BUT COULD LOVE HOPES THAT DOES “AND HOPES “BECAUSE WOULD SPARE YOUR MAJESTY FEAR FUTURE ANNOYANCE LADY LOVES HUSBAND DOES LOVE YOUR MAJESTY DOES LOVE YOUR MAJESTY THERE REASON SHOULD INTERFERE WITH YOUR MAJESTY’S PLAN TRUE YET— WELL WISH BEEN STATION WHAT QUEEN WOULD HAVE MADE RELAPSED INTO MOODY SILENCE WHICH BROKEN UNTIL DREW SERPENTINE AVENUE DOOR BRIONY LODGE OPEN ELDERLY WOMAN STOOD UPON STEPS WATCHED WITH SARDONIC STEPPED FROM BROUGHAM SHERLOCK HOLMES BELIEVE SAID HOLMES ANSWERED COMPANION LOOKING WITH QUESTIONING RATHER STARTLED GAZE “INDEED MISTRESS TOLD THAT WERE LIKELY CALL LEFT THIS MORNING WITH HUSBAND TRAIN FROM CHARING CROSS CONTINENT “WHAT SHERLOCK HOLMES STAGGERED BACK WHITE WITH CHAGRIN SURPRISE MEAN THAT LEFT ENGLAND “NEVER RETURN “AND PAPERS ASKED KING HOARSELY “ALL LOST SHALL PUSHED PAST SERVANT RUSHED INTO DRAWING-ROOM FOLLOWED KING MYSELF FURNITURE SCATTERED ABOUT EVERY DIRECTION WITH DISMANTLED SHELVES OPEN DRAWERS LADY HURRIEDLY RANSACKED THEM BEFORE FLIGHT HOLMES RUSHED BELL-PULL TORE BACK SMALL SLIDING SHUTTER PLUNGING HAND PULLED PHOTOGRAPH LETTER PHOTOGRAPH IRENE ADLER HERSELF EVENING DRESS LETTER SUPERSCRIBED “SHERLOCK HOLMES LEFT TILL CALLED FRIEND TORE OPEN THREE READ TOGETHER DATED MIDNIGHT PRECEDING NIGHT THIS DEAR SHERLOCK HOLMES —YOU REALLY VERY WELL TOOK COMPLETELY UNTIL AFTER ALARM FIRE SUSPICION THEN WHEN FOUND BETRAYED MYSELF BEGAN THINK BEEN WARNED AGAINST MONTHS BEEN TOLD THAT KING EMPLOYED AGENT WOULD CERTAINLY YOUR ADDRESS BEEN GIVEN WITH THIS MADE REVEAL WHAT WANTED KNOW EVEN AFTER BECAME SUSPICIOUS FOUND HARD THINK EVIL SUCH DEAR KIND CLERGYMAN KNOW HAVE BEEN TRAINED ACTRESS MYSELF MALE COSTUME NOTHING OFTEN TAKE ADVANTAGE FREEDOM WHICH GIVES SENT JOHN COACHMAN WATCH UPSTAIRS INTO WALKING CLOTHES CALL THEM CAME DOWN JUST DEPARTED “WELL FOLLOWED YOUR DOOR MADE SURE THAT REALLY OBJECT INTEREST CELEBRATED SHERLOCK HOLMES THEN RATHER IMPRUDENTLY WISHED GOOD-NIGHT STARTED TEMPLE HUSBAND BOTH THOUGHT BEST RESOURCE FLIGHT WHEN PURSUED FORMIDABLE ANTAGONIST WILL FIND NEST EMPTY WHEN CALL TO-MORROW PHOTOGRAPH YOUR CLIENT REST PEACE LOVE LOVED BETTER THAN KING WHAT WILL WITHOUT HINDRANCE FROM WHOM CRUELLY WRONGED KEEP ONLY SAFEGUARD MYSELF PRESERVE WEAPON WHICH WILL ALWAYS SECURE FROM STEPS WHICH MIGHT TAKE FUTURE LEAVE PHOTOGRAPH WHICH MIGHT CARE POSSESS REMAIN DEAR SHERLOCK HOLMES “VERY TRULY YOURS “IRENE NORTON ADLER “WHAT WOMAN—OH WHAT WOMAN CRIED KING BOHEMIA WHEN THREE READ THIS EPISTLE “DID TELL QUICK RESOLUTE WOULD HAVE MADE ADMIRABLE QUEEN PITY THAT LEVEL “FROM WHAT HAVE SEEN LADY SEEMS INDEED VERY DIFFERENT LEVEL YOUR MAJESTY SAID HOLMES COLDLY SORRY THAT HAVE BEEN ABLE BRING YOUR MAJESTY’S BUSINESS MORE SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION CONTRARY DEAR CRIED KING “NOTHING COULD MORE SUCCESSFUL KNOW THAT WORD INVIOLATE PHOTOGRAPH SAFE WERE FIRE GLAD HEAR YOUR MAJESTY IMMENSELY INDEBTED PRAY TELL WHAT REWARD THIS RING—” SLIPPED EMERALD SNAKE RING FROM FINGER HELD UPON PALM HAND “YOUR MAJESTY SOMETHING WHICH SHOULD VALUE EVEN MORE HIGHLY SAID HOLMES “YOU HAVE NAME “THIS PHOTOGRAPH KING STARED AMAZEMENT “IRENE’S PHOTOGRAPH CRIED “CERTAINLY WISH THANK YOUR MAJESTY THEN THERE MORE DONE MATTER HAVE HONOUR WISH VERY GOOD MORNING BOWED TURNING AWAY WITHOUT OBSERVING HAND WHICH KING STRETCHED COMPANY CHAMBERS THAT GREAT SCANDAL THREATENED AFFECT KINGDOM BOHEMIA BEST PLANS SHERLOCK HOLMES WERE BEATEN WOMAN’S USED MAKE MERRY OVER CLEVERNESS WOMEN HAVE HEARD LATE WHEN SPEAKS IRENE ADLER WHEN REFERS PHOTOGRAPH ALWAYS UNDER HONOURABLE TITLE WOMAN ADVENTURE RED-HEADED LEAGUE CALLED UPON FRIEND SHERLOCK HOLMES AUTUMN LAST YEAR FOUND DEEP CONVERSATION WITH VERY STOUT FLORID-FACED ELDERLY GENTLEMAN WITH FIERY HAIR WITH APOLOGY INTRUSION ABOUT WITHDRAW WHEN HOLMES PULLED ABRUPTLY INTO ROOM CLOSED DOOR BEHIND “YOU COULD POSSIBLY HAVE COME BETTER TIME DEAR WATSON SAID CORDIALLY AFRAID THAT WERE ENGAGED VERY MUCH “THEN WAIT NEXT ROOM “NOT THIS GENTLEMAN WILSON BEEN PARTNER HELPER MANY MOST SUCCESSFUL CASES HAVE DOUBT THAT WILL UTMOST YOURS ALSO STOUT GENTLEMAN HALF ROSE FROM CHAIR GAVE GREETING WITH QUICK LITTLE QUESTIONING GLANCE FROM SMALL FAT-ENCIRCLED EYES “TRY SETTEE SAID HOLMES RELAPSING INTO ARMCHAIR PUTTING FINGERTIPS TOGETHER CUSTOM WHEN JUDICIAL MOODS KNOW DEAR WATSON THAT SHARE LOVE THAT BIZARRE OUTSIDE CONVENTIONS HUMDRUM ROUTINE EVERYDAY LIFE HAVE SHOWN YOUR RELISH ENTHUSIASM WHICH PROMPTED CHRONICLE WILL EXCUSE SAYING SOMEWHAT EMBELLISH MANY LITTLE ADVENTURES “YOUR CASES HAVE INDEED BEEN GREATEST INTEREST OBSERVED “YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT REMARKED OTHER JUST BEFORE WENT INTO VERY SIMPLE PROBLEM PRESENTED MISS MARY SUTHERLAND THAT STRANGE EFFECTS EXTRAORDINARY COMBINATIONS MUST LIFE ITSELF WHICH ALWAYS MORE DARING THAN EFFORT IMAGINATION PROPOSITION WHICH TOOK LIBERTY DOUBTING “YOU DOCTOR NONE LESS MUST COME ROUND VIEW OTHERWISE SHALL KEEP PILING FACT UPON FACT UNTIL YOUR REASON BREAKS DOWN UNDER THEM ACKNOWLEDGES RIGHT JABEZ WILSON HERE BEEN GOOD ENOUGH CALL UPON THIS MORNING BEGIN NARRATIVE WHICH PROMISES MOST SINGULAR WHICH HAVE LISTENED SOME TIME HAVE HEARD REMARK THAT STRANGEST MOST UNIQUE THINGS VERY OFTEN CONNECTED WITH LARGER WITH SMALLER CRIMES OCCASIONALLY INDEED WHERE THERE ROOM DOUBT WHETHER POSITIVE CRIME BEEN COMMITTED HAVE HEARD IMPOSSIBLE WHETHER PRESENT CASE INSTANCE CRIME COURSE EVENTS CERTAINLY AMONG MOST SINGULAR THAT HAVE EVER LISTENED PERHAPS WILSON WOULD HAVE GREAT KINDNESS RECOMMENCE YOUR NARRATIVE MERELY BECAUSE FRIEND WATSON HEARD OPENING PART ALSO BECAUSE PECULIAR NATURE STORY MAKES ANXIOUS HAVE EVERY POSSIBLE DETAIL FROM YOUR LIPS RULE WHEN HAVE HEARD SOME SLIGHT INDICATION COURSE EVENTS ABLE GUIDE MYSELF THOUSANDS OTHER SIMILAR CASES WHICH OCCUR MEMORY PRESENT INSTANCE FORCED ADMIT THAT FACTS BEST BELIEF UNIQUE PORTLY CLIENT PUFFED CHEST WITH APPEARANCE SOME LITTLE PRIDE PULLED DIRTY WRINKLED NEWSPAPER FROM INSIDE POCKET GREATCOAT GLANCED DOWN ADVERTISEMENT COLUMN WITH HEAD THRUST FORWARD PAPER FLATTENED UPON KNEE TOOK GOOD LOOK ENDEAVOURED AFTER FASHION COMPANION READ INDICATIONS WHICH MIGHT PRESENTED DRESS APPEARANCE GAIN VERY MUCH HOWEVER INSPECTION VISITOR BORE EVERY MARK BEING AVERAGE COMMONPLACE BRITISH TRADESMAN OBESE POMPOUS SLOW WORE RATHER BAGGY GREY SHEPHERD’S CHECK TROUSERS OVER-CLEAN BLACK FROCK-COAT UNBUTTONED FRONT DRAB WAISTCOAT WITH HEAVY BRASSY ALBERT CHAIN SQUARE PIERCED METAL DANGLING DOWN ORNAMENT FRAYED TOP-HAT FADED BROWN OVERCOAT WITH WRINKLED VELVET COLLAR UPON CHAIR BESIDE ALTOGETHER LOOK WOULD THERE NOTHING REMARKABLE ABOUT SAVE BLAZING HEAD EXPRESSION EXTREME CHAGRIN DISCONTENT UPON FEATURES SHERLOCK HOLMES’ QUICK TOOK OCCUPATION SHOOK HEAD WITH SMILE NOTICED QUESTIONING GLANCES “BEYOND OBVIOUS FACTS THAT SOME TIME DONE MANUAL LABOUR THAT TAKES SNUFF THAT FREEMASON THAT BEEN CHINA THAT DONE CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT WRITING LATELY DEDUCE NOTHING ELSE JABEZ WILSON STARTED CHAIR WITH FOREFINGER UPON PAPER EYES UPON COMPANION “HOW NAME GOOD-FORTUNE KNOW THAT HOLMES ASKED “HOW KNOW EXAMPLE THAT MANUAL LABOUR IT’S TRUE GOSPEL BEGAN SHIP’S CARPENTER “YOUR HANDS DEAR YOUR RIGHT HAND QUITE SIZE LARGER THAN YOUR LEFT HAVE WORKED WITH MUSCLES MORE DEVELOPED “WELL SNUFF THEN FREEMASONRY WON’T INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE TELLING READ THAT ESPECIALLY RATHER AGAINST STRICT RULES YOUR ORDER ARC-AND-COMPASS BREASTPIN COURSE FORGOT THAT WRITING “WHAT ELSE INDICATED THAT RIGHT CUFF VERY SHINY FIVE INCHES LEFT WITH SMOOTH PATCH NEAR ELBOW WHERE REST UPON DESK “WELL CHINA “THE FISH THAT HAVE TATTOOED IMMEDIATELY ABOVE YOUR RIGHT WRIST COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN DONE CHINA HAVE MADE SMALL STUDY TATTOO MARKS HAVE EVEN CONTRIBUTED LITERATURE SUBJECT THAT TRICK STAINING FISHES’ SCALES DELICATE PINK QUITE PECULIAR CHINA WHEN ADDITION CHINESE COIN HANGING FROM YOUR WATCH-CHAIN MATTER BECOMES EVEN MORE SIMPLE JABEZ WILSON LAUGHED HEAVILY “WELL NEVER SAID THOUGHT FIRST THAT DONE SOMETHING CLEVER THAT THERE NOTHING AFTER BEGIN THINK WATSON SAID HOLMES “THAT MAKE MISTAKE EXPLAINING ‘OMNE IGNOTUM MAGNIFICO KNOW POOR LITTLE REPUTATION SUCH WILL SUFFER SHIPWRECK CANDID FIND ADVERTISEMENT WILSON “YES HAVE ANSWERED WITH THICK FINGER PLANTED HALFWAY DOWN COLUMN “HERE THIS WHAT BEGAN JUST READ YOURSELF TOOK PAPER FROM READ FOLLOWS RED-HEADED LEAGUE ACCOUNT BEQUEST LATE EZEKIAH HOPKINS LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA THERE ANOTHER VACANCY OPEN WHICH ENTITLES MEMBER LEAGUE SALARY WEEK PURELY NOMINAL SERVICES RED-HEADED SOUND BODY MIND ABOVE TWENTY-ONE YEARS ELIGIBLE APPLY PERSON MONDAY ELEVEN O’CLOCK DUNCAN ROSS OFFICES LEAGUE POPE’S COURT FLEET STREET “WHAT EARTH DOES THIS MEAN EJACULATED AFTER TWICE READ OVER EXTRAORDINARY ANNOUNCEMENT HOLMES CHUCKLED WRIGGLED CHAIR HABIT WHEN HIGH SPIRITS LITTLE BEATEN TRACK ISN’T SAID “AND WILSON SCRATCH TELL ABOUT YOURSELF YOUR HOUSEHOLD EFFECT WHICH THIS ADVERTISEMENT UPON YOUR FORTUNES WILL FIRST MAKE NOTE DOCTOR PAPER DATE MORNING CHRONICLE APRIL JUST MONTHS “VERY GOOD WILSON “WELL JUST HAVE BEEN TELLING SHERLOCK HOLMES SAID JABEZ WILSON MOPPING FOREHEAD HAVE SMALL PAWNBROKER’S BUSINESS COBURG SQUARE NEAR CITY IT’S VERY LARGE AFFAIR LATE YEARS DONE MORE THAN JUST GIVE LIVING USED ABLE KEEP ASSISTANTS ONLY KEEP WOULD HAVE THAT WILLING COME HALF WAGES LEARN BUSINESS “WHAT NAME THIS OBLIGING YOUTH ASKED SHERLOCK HOLMES “HIS NAME VINCENT SPAULDING HE’S SUCH YOUTH EITHER IT’S HARD SHOULD WISH SMARTER ASSISTANT HOLMES KNOW VERY WELL THAT COULD BETTER HIMSELF EARN TWICE WHAT ABLE GIVE AFTER SATISFIED SHOULD IDEAS HEAD “WHY INDEED SEEM MOST FORTUNATE HAVING EMPLOYé COMES UNDER FULL MARKET PRICE COMMON EXPERIENCE AMONG EMPLOYERS THIS DON’T KNOW THAT YOUR ASSISTANT REMARKABLE YOUR ADVERTISEMENT FAULTS SAID WILSON “NEVER SUCH FELLOW PHOTOGRAPHY SNAPPING AWAY WITH CAMERA WHEN OUGHT IMPROVING MIND THEN DIVING DOWN INTO CELLAR LIKE RABBIT INTO HOLE DEVELOP PICTURES THAT MAIN FAULT WHOLE HE’S GOOD WORKER THERE’S VICE STILL WITH PRESUME “YES GIRL FOURTEEN DOES SIMPLE COOKING KEEPS PLACE CLEAN—THAT’S HAVE HOUSE WIDOWER NEVER FAMILY LIVE VERY QUIETLY THREE KEEP ROOF OVER HEADS DEBTS NOTHING MORE “THE FIRST THING THAT THAT ADVERTISEMENT SPAULDING CAME DOWN INTO OFFICE JUST THIS EIGHT WEEKS WITH THIS VERY PAPER HAND SAYS WISH LORD WILSON THAT RED-HEADED ‘WHY THAT ASKS ‘WHY SAYS ‘HERE’S ANOTHER VACANCY LEAGUE RED-HEADED IT’S WORTH QUITE LITTLE FORTUNE GETS UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MORE VACANCIES THAN THERE THAT TRUSTEES THEIR WITS’ WHAT WITH MONEY HAIR WOULD ONLY CHANGE COLOUR HERE’S NICE LITTLE CRIB READY STEP INTO ‘WHY WHAT THEN ASKED HOLMES VERY STAY-AT-HOME BUSINESS CAME INSTEAD HAVING OFTEN WEEKS WITHOUT PUTTING FOOT OVER DOOR-MAT THAT DIDN’T KNOW MUCH WHAT GOING OUTSIDE ALWAYS GLAD NEWS ‘HAVE NEVER HEARD LEAGUE RED-HEADED ASKED WITH EYES OPEN ‘NEVER ‘WHY WONDER THAT ELIGIBLE YOURSELF VACANCIES ‘AND WHAT THEY WORTH ASKED MERELY COUPLE HUNDRED YEAR WORK SLIGHT NEED INTERFERE VERY MUCH WITH ONE’S OTHER OCCUPATIONS “WELL EASILY THINK THAT THAT MADE PRICK EARS BUSINESS BEEN OVER GOOD SOME YEARS EXTRA COUPLE HUNDRED WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY HANDY ‘TELL ABOUT SAID ‘WELL SAID SHOWING ADVERTISEMENT ‘YOU YOURSELF THAT LEAGUE VACANCY THERE ADDRESS WHERE SHOULD APPLY PARTICULARS MAKE LEAGUE FOUNDED AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE EZEKIAH HOPKINS VERY PECULIAR WAYS HIMSELF RED-HEADED GREAT SYMPATHY RED-HEADED WHEN DIED FOUND THAT LEFT ENORMOUS FORTUNE HANDS TRUSTEES WITH INSTRUCTIONS APPLY INTEREST PROVIDING EASY BERTHS WHOSE HAIR THAT COLOUR FROM HEAR SPLENDID VERY LITTLE ‘BUT SAID ‘THERE WOULD MILLIONS RED-HEADED WOULD APPLY ‘NOT MANY MIGHT THINK ANSWERED ‘YOU REALLY CONFINED LONDONERS GROWN THIS AMERICAN STARTED FROM LONDON WHEN YOUNG WANTED TOWN GOOD TURN THEN AGAIN HAVE HEARD YOUR APPLYING YOUR HAIR LIGHT DARK ANYTHING REAL BRIGHT BLAZING FIERY CARED APPLY WILSON WOULD JUST WALK PERHAPS WOULD HARDLY WORTH YOUR WHILE YOURSELF SAKE HUNDRED POUNDS “NOW FACT GENTLEMEN YOURSELVES THAT HAIR VERY FULL RICH TINT THAT SEEMED THAT THERE COMPETITION MATTER STOOD GOOD CHANCE THAT EVER VINCENT SPAULDING SEEMED KNOW MUCH ABOUT THAT THOUGHT MIGHT PROVE USEFUL JUST ORDERED SHUTTERS COME RIGHT AWAY WITH VERY WILLING HAVE HOLIDAY SHUT BUSINESS STARTED ADDRESS THAT GIVEN ADVERTISEMENT NEVER HOPE SUCH SIGHT THAT AGAIN HOLMES FROM NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST EVERY SHADE HAIR TRAMPED INTO CITY ANSWER ADVERTISEMENT FLEET STREET CHOKED WITH RED-HEADED FOLK POPE’S COURT LOOKED LIKE COSTER’S ORANGE BARROW SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT THERE WERE MANY WHOLE COUNTRY WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER THAT SINGLE ADVERTISEMENT EVERY SHADE COLOUR THEY WERE—STRAW LEMON ORANGE BRICK IRISH-SETTER LIVER CLAY SPAULDING SAID THERE WERE MANY REAL VIVID FLAME-COLOURED TINT WHEN MANY WERE WAITING WOULD HAVE GIVEN DESPAIR SPAULDING WOULD HEAR COULD IMAGINE PUSHED PULLED BUTTED UNTIL THROUGH CROWD RIGHT STEPS WHICH OFFICE THERE DOUBLE STREAM UPON STAIR SOME GOING HOPE SOME COMING BACK DEJECTED WEDGED WELL COULD SOON FOUND OURSELVES OFFICE “YOUR EXPERIENCE BEEN MOST ENTERTAINING REMARKED HOLMES CLIENT PAUSED REFRESHED MEMORY WITH HUGE PINCH SNUFF “PRAY CONTINUE YOUR VERY INTERESTING STATEMENT “THERE NOTHING OFFICE COUPLE WOODEN CHAIRS DEAL TABLE BEHIND WHICH SMALL WITH HEAD THAT EVEN REDDER THAN MINE SAID WORDS EACH CANDIDATE CAME THEN ALWAYS MANAGED FIND SOME FAULT THEM WHICH WOULD DISQUALIFY THEM GETTING VACANCY SEEM SUCH VERY EASY MATTER AFTER HOWEVER WHEN TURN CAME LITTLE MUCH MORE FAVOURABLE THAN OTHERS CLOSED DOOR ENTERED THAT MIGHT HAVE PRIVATE WORD WITH ‘THIS JABEZ WILSON SAID ASSISTANT ‘AND WILLING FILL VACANCY LEAGUE ‘AND ADMIRABLY SUITED OTHER ANSWERED EVERY REQUIREMENT CANNOT RECALL WHEN HAVE SEEN ANYTHING FINE TOOK STEP BACKWARD COCKED HEAD SIDE GAZED HAIR UNTIL FELT QUITE BASHFUL THEN SUDDENLY PLUNGED FORWARD WRUNG HAND CONGRATULATED WARMLY SUCCESS WOULD INJUSTICE HESITATE SAID ‘YOU WILL HOWEVER SURE EXCUSE TAKING OBVIOUS PRECAUTION WITH THAT SEIZED HAIR BOTH HANDS TUGGED UNTIL YELLED WITH PAIN ‘THERE WATER YOUR EYES SAID RELEASED PERCEIVE THAT SHOULD HAVE CAREFUL HAVE TWICE BEEN DECEIVED WIGS ONCE PAINT COULD TELL TALES COBBLER’S WHICH WOULD DISGUST WITH HUMAN NATURE STEPPED OVER WINDOW SHOUTED THROUGH VOICE THAT VACANCY FILLED GROAN DISAPPOINTMENT CAME FROM BELOW FOLK TROOPED AWAY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS UNTIL THERE RED-HEAD SEEN EXCEPT THAT MANAGER NAME SAID DUNCAN ROSS MYSELF PENSIONERS UPON FUND LEFT NOBLE BENEFACTOR MARRIED WILSON HAVE FAMILY ANSWERED THAT “HIS FACE FELL IMMEDIATELY ‘DEAR SAID GRAVELY ‘THAT VERY SERIOUS INDEED SORRY HEAR THAT FUND COURSE PROPAGATION SPREAD RED-HEADS WELL THEIR MAINTENANCE EXCEEDINGLY UNFORTUNATE THAT SHOULD BACHELOR FACE LENGTHENED THIS HOLMES THOUGHT THAT HAVE VACANCY AFTER AFTER THINKING OVER MINUTES SAID THAT WOULD RIGHT CASE ANOTHER SAID ‘THE OBJECTION MIGHT FATAL MUST STRETCH POINT FAVOUR WITH SUCH HEAD HAIR YOURS WHEN SHALL ABLE ENTER UPON YOUR DUTIES ‘WELL LITTLE AWKWARD HAVE BUSINESS ALREADY SAID NEVER MIND ABOUT THAT WILSON SAID VINCENT SPAULDING SHOULD ABLE LOOK AFTER THAT ‘WHAT WOULD HOURS ASKED ‘TEN “NOW PAWNBROKER’S BUSINESS MOSTLY DONE EVENING HOLMES ESPECIALLY THURSDAY FRIDAY EVENING WHICH JUST BEFORE PAY-DAY WOULD SUIT VERY WELL EARN LITTLE MORNINGS BESIDES KNEW THAT ASSISTANT GOOD THAT WOULD ANYTHING THAT TURNED ‘THAT WOULD SUIT VERY WELL SAID ‘AND WEEK ‘AND WORK PURELY NOMINAL ‘WHAT CALL PURELY NOMINAL ‘WELL HAVE OFFICE LEAST BUILDING WHOLE TIME LEAVE FORFEIT YOUR WHOLE POSITION FOREVER WILL VERY CLEAR UPON THAT POINT DON’T COMPLY WITH CONDITIONS BUDGE FROM OFFICE DURING THAT TIME ‘IT’S ONLY FOUR HOURS SHOULD THINK LEAVING SAID EXCUSE WILL AVAIL SAID DUNCAN ROSS ‘NEITHER SICKNESS BUSINESS ANYTHING ELSE THERE MUST STAY LOSE YOUR BILLET ‘AND WORK COPY ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA THERE FIRST VOLUME THAT PRESS MUST FIND YOUR PENS BLOTTING-PAPER PROVIDE THIS TABLE CHAIR WILL READY TO-MORROW ‘CERTAINLY ANSWERED ‘THEN GOOD-BYE JABEZ WILSON CONGRATULATE ONCE MORE IMPORTANT POSITION WHICH HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH GAIN BOWED ROOM WENT HOME WITH ASSISTANT HARDLY KNOWING WHAT PLEASED GOOD FORTUNE “WELL THOUGHT OVER MATTER EVENING SPIRITS AGAIN QUITE PERSUADED MYSELF THAT WHOLE AFFAIR MUST SOME GREAT HOAX FRAUD THOUGH WHAT OBJECT MIGHT COULD IMAGINE SEEMED ALTOGETHER PAST BELIEF THAT ANYONE COULD MAKE SUCH WILL THAT THEY WOULD SUCH DOING ANYTHING SIMPLE COPYING ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA VINCENT SPAULDING WHAT COULD CHEER BEDTIME REASONED MYSELF WHOLE THING HOWEVER MORNING DETERMINED HAVE LOOK ANYHOW BOUGHT PENNY BOTTLE WITH QUILL-PEN SEVEN SHEETS FOOLSCAP PAPER STARTED POPE’S COURT “WELL SURPRISE DELIGHT EVERYTHING RIGHT POSSIBLE TABLE READY DUNCAN ROSS THERE THAT FAIRLY WORK STARTED UPON LETTER THEN LEFT WOULD DROP FROM TIME TIME THAT RIGHT WITH O’CLOCK BADE GOOD-DAY COMPLIMENTED UPON AMOUNT THAT WRITTEN LOCKED DOOR OFFICE AFTER “THIS WENT AFTER HOLMES SATURDAY MANAGER CAME PLANKED DOWN FOUR GOLDEN SOVEREIGNS WEEK’S WORK SAME NEXT WEEK SAME WEEK AFTER EVERY MORNING THERE EVERY AFTERNOON LEFT DEGREES DUNCAN ROSS TOOK COMING ONLY ONCE MORNING THEN AFTER TIME COME STILL COURSE NEVER DARED LEAVE ROOM INSTANT SURE WHEN MIGHT COME BILLET SUCH GOOD SUITED WELL THAT WOULD RISK LOSS “EIGHT WEEKS PASSED AWAY LIKE THIS WRITTEN ABOUT ABBOTS ARCHERY ARMOUR ARCHITECTURE ATTICA HOPED WITH DILIGENCE THAT MIGHT BEFORE VERY LONG COST SOMETHING FOOLSCAP PRETTY NEARLY FILLED SHELF WITH WRITINGS THEN SUDDENLY WHOLE BUSINESS CAME “YES LATER THAN THIS MORNING WENT WORK USUAL O’CLOCK DOOR SHUT LOCKED WITH LITTLE SQUARE CARDBOARD HAMMERED MIDDLE PANEL WITH TACK HERE READ YOURSELF HELD PIECE WHITE CARDBOARD ABOUT SIZE SHEET NOTE-PAPER READ THIS FASHION RED-HEADED LEAGUE DISSOLVED OCTOBER SHERLOCK HOLMES SURVEYED THIS CURT ANNOUNCEMENT RUEFUL FACE BEHIND UNTIL COMICAL SIDE AFFAIR COMPLETELY OVERTOPPED EVERY OTHER CONSIDERATION THAT BOTH BURST INTO ROAR LAUGHTER CANNOT THAT THERE ANYTHING VERY FUNNY CRIED CLIENT FLUSHING ROOTS FLAMING HEAD NOTHING BETTER THAN LAUGH ELSEWHERE CRIED HOLMES SHOVING BACK INTO CHAIR FROM WHICH HALF RISEN REALLY WOULDN’T MISS YOUR CASE WORLD MOST REFRESHINGLY UNUSUAL THERE WILL EXCUSE SAYING SOMETHING JUST LITTLE FUNNY ABOUT PRAY WHAT STEPS TAKE WHEN FOUND CARD UPON DOOR STAGGERED KNOW WHAT THEN CALLED OFFICES ROUND NONE THEM SEEMED KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FINALLY WENT LANDLORD ACCOUNTANT LIVING GROUND FLOOR ASKED COULD TELL WHAT BECOME RED-HEADED LEAGUE SAID THAT NEVER HEARD SUCH BODY THEN ASKED DUNCAN ROSS ANSWERED THAT NAME ‘WELL SAID ‘THE GENTLEMAN ‘WHAT RED-HEADED ‘YES SAID ‘HIS NAME WILLIAM MORRIS SOLICITOR USING ROOM TEMPORARY CONVENIENCE UNTIL PREMISES WERE READY MOVED YESTERDAY ‘WHERE COULD FIND OFFICES TELL ADDRESS KING EDWARD STREET NEAR PAUL’S STARTED HOLMES WHEN THAT ADDRESS MANUFACTORY ARTIFICIAL KNEE-CAPS EVER HEARD EITHER WILLIAM MORRIS DUNCAN ROSS “AND WHAT THEN ASKED HOLMES WENT HOME SAXE-COBURG SQUARE TOOK ADVICE ASSISTANT COULD HELP COULD ONLY THAT WAITED SHOULD HEAR POST THAT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH HOLMES WISH LOSE SUCH PLACE WITHOUT STRUGGLE HEARD THAT WERE GOOD ENOUGH GIVE ADVICE POOR FOLK WERE NEED CAME RIGHT AWAY “AND VERY WISELY SAID HOLMES “YOUR CASE EXCEEDINGLY REMARKABLE SHALL HAPPY LOOK INTO FROM WHAT HAVE TOLD THINK THAT POSSIBLE THAT GRAVER ISSUES HANG FROM THAN MIGHT FIRST SIGHT APPEAR “GRAVE ENOUGH SAID JABEZ WILSON “WHY HAVE LOST FOUR POUND WEEK PERSONALLY CONCERNED REMARKED HOLMES THAT HAVE GRIEVANCE AGAINST THIS EXTRAORDINARY LEAGUE CONTRARY UNDERSTAND RICHER SOME NOTHING MINUTE KNOWLEDGE WHICH HAVE GAINED EVERY SUBJECT WHICH COMES UNDER LETTER HAVE LOST NOTHING THEM WANT FIND ABOUT THEM THEY WHAT THEIR OBJECT PLAYING THIS PRANK—IF PRANK—UPON PRETTY EXPENSIVE JOKE THEM COST THEM THIRTY POUNDS SHALL ENDEAVOUR CLEAR THESE POINTS FIRST QUESTIONS WILSON THIS ASSISTANT YOURS FIRST CALLED YOUR ATTENTION ADVERTISEMENT—HOW LONG BEEN WITH “ABOUT MONTH THEN “HOW COME ANSWER ADVERTISEMENT “WAS ONLY APPLICANT DOZEN “WHY PICK “BECAUSE HANDY WOULD COME CHEAP HALF WAGES FACT “YES “WHAT LIKE THIS VINCENT SPAULDING “SMALL STOUT-BUILT VERY QUICK WAYS HAIR FACE THOUGH HE’S SHORT THIRTY WHITE SPLASH ACID UPON FOREHEAD HOLMES CHAIR CONSIDERABLE EXCITEMENT THOUGHT MUCH SAID “HAVE EVER OBSERVED THAT EARS PIERCED EARRINGS “YES TOLD THAT GIPSY DONE WHEN “HUM SAID HOLMES SINKING BACK DEEP THOUGHT STILL WITH HAVE ONLY JUST LEFT “AND YOUR BUSINESS BEEN ATTENDED YOUR ABSENCE “NOTHING COMPLAIN THERE’S NEVER VERY MUCH MORNING “THAT WILL WILSON SHALL HAPPY GIVE OPINION UPON SUBJECT COURSE TO-DAY SATURDAY HOPE THAT MONDAY COME CONCLUSION “WELL WATSON SAID HOLMES WHEN VISITOR LEFT “WHAT MAKE MAKE NOTHING ANSWERED FRANKLY MOST MYSTERIOUS BUSINESS RULE SAID HOLMES “THE MORE BIZARRE THING LESS MYSTERIOUS PROVES YOUR COMMONPLACE FEATURELESS CRIMES WHICH REALLY PUZZLING JUST COMMONPLACE FACE MOST DIFFICULT IDENTIFY MUST PROMPT OVER THIS MATTER “WHAT GOING THEN ASKED SMOKE ANSWERED QUITE THREE PIPE PROBLEM THAT WON’T SPEAK FIFTY MINUTES CURLED HIMSELF CHAIR WITH THIN KNEES DRAWN HAWK-LIKE NOSE THERE WITH EYES CLOSED BLACK CLAY PIPE THRUSTING LIKE BILL SOME STRANGE BIRD COME CONCLUSION THAT DROPPED ASLEEP INDEED NODDING MYSELF WHEN SUDDENLY SPRANG CHAIR WITH GESTURE MADE MIND PIPE DOWN UPON MANTELPIECE “SARASATE PLAYS JAMES’S HALL THIS AFTERNOON REMARKED “WHAT THINK WATSON COULD YOUR PATIENTS SPARE HOURS HAVE NOTHING TO-DAY PRACTICE NEVER VERY ABSORBING “THEN YOUR COME GOING THROUGH CITY FIRST HAVE SOME LUNCH OBSERVE THAT THERE GOOD DEAL GERMAN MUSIC PROGRAMME WHICH RATHER MORE TASTE THAN ITALIAN FRENCH INTROSPECTIVE WANT INTROSPECT COME ALONG TRAVELLED UNDERGROUND ALDERSGATE SHORT WALK TOOK SAXE-COBURG SQUARE SCENE SINGULAR STORY WHICH LISTENED MORNING POKY LITTLE SHABBY-GENTEEL PLACE WHERE FOUR LINES DINGY TWO-STORIED BRICK HOUSES LOOKED INTO SMALL RAILED-IN ENCLOSURE WHERE LAWN WEEDY GRASS CLUMPS FADED LAUREL BUSHES MADE HARD FIGHT AGAINST SMOKE-LADEN UNCONGENIAL ATMOSPHERE THREE GILT BALLS BROWN BOARD WITH “JABEZ WILSON” WHITE LETTERS UPON CORNER HOUSE ANNOUNCED PLACE WHERE RED-HEADED CLIENT CARRIED BUSINESS SHERLOCK HOLMES STOPPED FRONT WITH HEAD SIDE LOOKED OVER WITH EYES SHINING BRIGHTLY BETWEEN PUCKERED LIDS THEN WALKED SLOWLY STREET THEN DOWN AGAIN CORNER STILL LOOKING KEENLY HOUSES FINALLY RETURNED PAWNBROKER’S HAVING THUMPED VIGOROUSLY UPON PAVEMENT WITH STICK THREE TIMES WENT DOOR KNOCKED INSTANTLY OPENED BRIGHT-LOOKING CLEAN-SHAVEN YOUNG FELLOW ASKED STEP “THANK SAID HOLMES ONLY WISHED WOULD FROM HERE STRAND “THIRD RIGHT FOURTH LEFT ANSWERED ASSISTANT PROMPTLY CLOSING DOOR “SMART FELLOW THAT OBSERVED HOLMES WALKED AWAY JUDGMENT FOURTH SMARTEST LONDON DARING SURE THAT CLAIM THIRD HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING BEFORE “EVIDENTLY SAID WILSON’S ASSISTANT COUNTS GOOD DEAL THIS MYSTERY RED-HEADED LEAGUE SURE THAT INQUIRED YOUR MERELY ORDER THAT MIGHT “NOT “WHAT THEN “THE KNEES TROUSERS “AND WHAT “WHAT EXPECTED “WHY BEAT PAVEMENT DEAR DOCTOR THIS TIME OBSERVATION TALK SPIES ENEMY’S COUNTRY KNOW SOMETHING SAXE-COBURG SQUARE EXPLORE PARTS WHICH BEHIND ROAD WHICH FOUND OURSELVES TURNED ROUND CORNER FROM RETIRED SAXE-COBURG SQUARE PRESENTED GREAT CONTRAST FRONT PICTURE DOES BACK MAIN ARTERIES WHICH CONVEYED TRAFFIC CITY NORTH WEST ROADWAY BLOCKED WITH IMMENSE STREAM COMMERCE FLOWING DOUBLE TIDE INWARD OUTWARD WHILE FOOTPATHS WERE BLACK WITH HURRYING SWARM PEDESTRIANS DIFFICULT REALISE LOOKED LINE FINE SHOPS STATELY BUSINESS PREMISES THAT THEY REALLY ABUTTED OTHER SIDE UPON FADED STAGNANT SQUARE WHICH JUST QUITTED “LET SAID HOLMES STANDING CORNER GLANCING ALONG LINE SHOULD LIKE JUST REMEMBER ORDER HOUSES HERE HOBBY MINE HAVE EXACT KNOWLEDGE LONDON THERE MORTIMER’S TOBACCONIST LITTLE NEWSPAPER SHOP COBURG BRANCH CITY SUBURBAN BANK VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT MCFARLANE’S CARRIAGE-BUILDING DEPOT THAT CARRIES RIGHT OTHER BLOCK DOCTOR WE’VE DONE WORK IT’S TIME SOME PLAY SANDWICH COFFEE THEN VIOLIN-LAND WHERE SWEETNESS DELICACY HARMONY THERE RED-HEADED CLIENTS WITH THEIR CONUNDRUMS FRIEND ENTHUSIASTIC MUSICIAN BEING HIMSELF ONLY VERY CAPABLE PERFORMER COMPOSER ORDINARY MERIT AFTERNOON STALLS WRAPPED MOST PERFECT HAPPINESS GENTLY WAVING LONG THIN FINGERS TIME MUSIC WHILE GENTLY SMILING FACE LANGUID DREAMY EYES WERE UNLIKE THOSE HOLMES SLEUTH-HOUND HOLMES RELENTLESS KEEN-WITTED READY-HANDED CRIMINAL AGENT POSSIBLE CONCEIVE SINGULAR CHARACTER DUAL NATURE ALTERNATELY ASSERTED ITSELF EXTREME EXACTNESS ASTUTENESS REPRESENTED HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT REACTION AGAINST POETIC CONTEMPLATIVE MOOD WHICH OCCASIONALLY PREDOMINATED SWING NATURE TOOK FROM EXTREME LANGUOR DEVOURING ENERGY KNEW WELL NEVER TRULY FORMIDABLE WHEN DAYS BEEN LOUNGING ARMCHAIR AMID IMPROVISATIONS BLACK-LETTER EDITIONS THEN THAT LUST CHASE WOULD SUDDENLY COME UPON THAT BRILLIANT REASONING POWER WOULD RISE LEVEL INTUITION UNTIL THOSE WERE UNACQUAINTED WITH METHODS WOULD LOOK ASKANCE WHOSE KNOWLEDGE THAT OTHER MORTALS WHEN THAT AFTERNOON ENWRAPPED MUSIC JAMES’S HALL FELT THAT EVIL TIME MIGHT COMING UPON THOSE WHOM HIMSELF HUNT DOWN “YOU WANT HOME DOUBT DOCTOR REMARKED EMERGED “YES WOULD WELL “AND HAVE SOME BUSINESS WHICH WILL TAKE SOME HOURS THIS BUSINESS COBURG SQUARE SERIOUS “WHY SERIOUS CONSIDERABLE CRIME CONTEMPLATION HAVE EVERY REASON BELIEVE THAT SHALL TIME STOP TO-DAY BEING SATURDAY RATHER COMPLICATES MATTERS SHALL WANT YOUR HELP TO-NIGHT WHAT TIME “TEN WILL EARLY ENOUGH SHALL BAKER STREET “VERY WELL DOCTOR THERE SOME LITTLE DANGER KINDLY YOUR ARMY REVOLVER YOUR POCKET WAVED HAND TURNED HEEL DISAPPEARED INSTANT AMONG CROWD TRUST THAT MORE DENSE THAN NEIGHBOURS ALWAYS OPPRESSED WITH SENSE STUPIDITY DEALINGS WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES HERE HEARD WHAT HEARD SEEN WHAT SEEN FROM WORDS EVIDENT THAT CLEARLY ONLY WHAT HAPPENED WHAT ABOUT HAPPEN WHILE WHOLE BUSINESS STILL CONFUSED GROTESQUE DROVE HOME HOUSE KENSINGTON THOUGHT OVER FROM EXTRAORDINARY STORY RED-HEADED COPIER ENCYCLOPAEDIA DOWN VISIT SAXE-COBURG SQUARE OMINOUS WORDS WITH WHICH PARTED FROM WHAT THIS NOCTURNAL EXPEDITION SHOULD ARMED WHERE WERE GOING WHAT WERE HINT FROM HOLMES THAT THIS SMOOTH-FACED PAWNBROKER’S ASSISTANT FORMIDABLE MAN—A MIGHT PLAY DEEP GAME TRIED PUZZLE GAVE DESPAIR MATTER ASIDE UNTIL NIGHT SHOULD BRING EXPLANATION QUARTER-PAST NINE WHEN STARTED FROM HOME MADE ACROSS PARK THROUGH OXFORD STREET BAKER STREET HANSOMS WERE STANDING DOOR ENTERED PASSAGE HEARD SOUND VOICES FROM ABOVE ENTERING ROOM FOUND HOLMES ANIMATED CONVERSATION WITH WHOM RECOGNISED PETER JONES OFFICIAL POLICE AGENT WHILE OTHER LONG THIN SAD-FACED WITH VERY SHINY OPPRESSIVELY RESPECTABLE FROCK-COAT PARTY COMPLETE SAID HOLMES BUTTONING PEA-JACKET TAKING HEAVY HUNTING CROP FROM RACK “WATSON THINK KNOW JONES SCOTLAND YARD INTRODUCE MERRYWEATHER COMPANION TO-NIGHT’S ADVENTURE “WE’RE HUNTING COUPLES AGAIN DOCTOR SAID JONES CONSEQUENTIAL “OUR FRIEND HERE WONDERFUL STARTING CHASE WANTS HELP RUNNING DOWN HOPE WILD GOOSE PROVE CHASE OBSERVED MERRYWEATHER GLOOMILY “YOU PLACE CONSIDERABLE CONFIDENCE HOLMES SAID POLICE AGENT LOFTILY LITTLE METHODS WHICH WON’T MIND SAYING JUST LITTLE THEORETICAL FANTASTIC MAKINGS DETECTIVE MUCH THAT ONCE TWICE THAT BUSINESS SHOLTO MURDER AGRA TREASURE BEEN MORE NEARLY CORRECT THAN OFFICIAL FORCE JONES RIGHT SAID STRANGER WITH DEFERENCE “STILL CONFESS THAT MISS RUBBER FIRST SATURDAY NIGHT SEVEN-AND-TWENTY YEARS THAT HAVE RUBBER THINK WILL FIND SAID SHERLOCK HOLMES “THAT WILL PLAY HIGHER STAKE TO-NIGHT THAN HAVE EVER DONE THAT PLAY WILL MORE EXCITING MERRYWEATHER STAKE WILL SOME JONES WILL UPON WHOM WISH YOUR HANDS “JOHN CLAY MURDERER THIEF SMASHER FORGER HE’S YOUNG MERRYWEATHER HEAD PROFESSION WOULD RATHER HAVE BRACELETS THAN CRIMINAL LONDON HE’S REMARKABLE YOUNG JOHN CLAY GRANDFATHER ROYAL DUKE HIMSELF BEEN ETON OXFORD BRAIN CUNNING FINGERS THOUGH MEET SIGNS EVERY TURN NEVER KNOW WHERE FIND HIMSELF HE’LL CRACK CRIB SCOTLAND WEEK RAISING MONEY BUILD ORPHANAGE CORNWALL NEXT I’VE BEEN TRACK YEARS HAVE NEVER EYES HOPE THAT HAVE PLEASURE INTRODUCING TO-NIGHT I’VE LITTLE TURNS ALSO WITH JOHN CLAY AGREE WITH THAT HEAD PROFESSION PAST HOWEVER QUITE TIME THAT STARTED WILL TAKE FIRST HANSOM WATSON WILL FOLLOW SECOND SHERLOCK HOLMES VERY COMMUNICATIVE DURING LONG DRIVE BACK HUMMING TUNES WHICH HEARD AFTERNOON RATTLED THROUGH ENDLESS LABYRINTH GAS-LIT STREETS UNTIL EMERGED INTO FARRINGTON STREET CLOSE THERE FRIEND REMARKED “THIS FELLOW MERRYWEATHER BANK DIRECTOR PERSONALLY INTERESTED MATTER THOUGHT WELL HAVE JONES WITH ALSO FELLOW THOUGH ABSOLUTE IMBECILE PROFESSION POSITIVE VIRTUE BRAVE BULLDOG TENACIOUS LOBSTER GETS CLAWS UPON ANYONE HERE THEY WAITING REACHED SAME CROWDED THOROUGHFARE WHICH FOUND OURSELVES MORNING CABS WERE DISMISSED FOLLOWING GUIDANCE MERRYWEATHER PASSED DOWN NARROW PASSAGE THROUGH SIDE DOOR WHICH OPENED WITHIN THERE SMALL CORRIDOR WHICH ENDED VERY MASSIVE IRON GATE THIS ALSO OPENED DOWN FLIGHT WINDING STONE STEPS WHICH TERMINATED ANOTHER FORMIDABLE GATE MERRYWEATHER STOPPED LIGHT LANTERN THEN CONDUCTED DOWN DARK EARTH-SMELLING PASSAGE AFTER OPENING THIRD DOOR INTO HUGE VAULT CELLAR WHICH PILED ROUND WITH CRATES MASSIVE BOXES “YOU VERY VULNERABLE FROM ABOVE HOLMES REMARKED HELD LANTERN GAZED ABOUT “NOR FROM BELOW SAID MERRYWEATHER STRIKING STICK UPON FLAGS WHICH LINED FLOOR “WHY DEAR SOUNDS QUITE HOLLOW REMARKED LOOKING SURPRISE MUST REALLY LITTLE MORE QUIET SAID HOLMES SEVERELY “YOU HAVE ALREADY IMPERILLED WHOLE SUCCESS EXPEDITION MIGHT THAT WOULD HAVE GOODNESS DOWN UPON THOSE BOXES INTERFERE SOLEMN MERRYWEATHER PERCHED HIMSELF UPON CRATE WITH VERY INJURED EXPRESSION UPON FACE WHILE HOLMES FELL UPON KNEES UPON FLOOR WITH LANTERN MAGNIFYING LENS BEGAN EXAMINE MINUTELY CRACKS BETWEEN STONES SECONDS SUFFICED SATISFY SPRANG FEET AGAIN GLASS POCKET HAVE LEAST HOUR BEFORE REMARKED “FOR THEY HARDLY TAKE STEPS UNTIL GOOD PAWNBROKER SAFELY THEN THEY WILL LOSE MINUTE SOONER THEY THEIR WORK LONGER TIME THEY WILL HAVE THEIR ESCAPE PRESENT DOCTOR—AS DOUBT HAVE DIVINED—IN CELLAR CITY BRANCH PRINCIPAL LONDON BANKS MERRYWEATHER CHAIRMAN DIRECTORS WILL EXPLAIN THAT THERE REASONS MORE DARING CRIMINALS LONDON SHOULD TAKE CONSIDERABLE INTEREST THIS CELLAR PRESENT FRENCH GOLD WHISPERED DIRECTOR HAVE SEVERAL WARNINGS THAT ATTEMPT MIGHT MADE UPON “YOUR FRENCH GOLD “YES OCCASION SOME MONTHS STRENGTHEN RESOURCES BORROWED THAT PURPOSE NAPOLEONS FROM BANK FRANCE BECOME KNOWN THAT HAVE NEVER OCCASION UNPACK MONEY THAT STILL LYING CELLAR CRATE UPON WHICH CONTAINS NAPOLEONS PACKED BETWEEN LAYERS LEAD FOIL RESERVE BULLION MUCH LARGER PRESENT THAN USUALLY KEPT SINGLE BRANCH OFFICE DIRECTORS HAVE MISGIVINGS UPON SUBJECT “WHICH WERE VERY WELL JUSTIFIED OBSERVED HOLMES “AND TIME THAT ARRANGED LITTLE PLANS EXPECT THAT WITHIN HOUR MATTERS WILL COME HEAD MEANTIME MERRYWEATHER MUST SCREEN OVER THAT DARK LANTERN “AND DARK AFRAID BROUGHT PACK CARDS POCKET THOUGHT THAT WERE PARTIE CARRéE MIGHT HAVE YOUR RUBBER AFTER THAT ENEMY’S PREPARATIONS HAVE GONE THAT CANNOT RISK PRESENCE LIGHT FIRST MUST CHOOSE POSITIONS THESE DARING THOUGH SHALL TAKE THEM DISADVANTAGE THEY SOME HARM UNLESS CAREFUL SHALL STAND BEHIND THIS CRATE CONCEAL YOURSELVES BEHIND THOSE THEN WHEN FLASH LIGHT UPON THEM CLOSE SWIFTLY THEY FIRE WATSON HAVE COMPUNCTION ABOUT SHOOTING THEM DOWN PLACED REVOLVER COCKED UPON WOODEN CASE BEHIND WHICH CROUCHED HOLMES SHOT SLIDE ACROSS FRONT LANTERN LEFT PITCH DARKNESS—SUCH ABSOLUTE DARKNESS HAVE NEVER BEFORE EXPERIENCED SMELL METAL REMAINED ASSURE THAT LIGHT STILL THERE READY FLASH MOMENT’S NOTICE WITH NERVES WORKED PITCH EXPECTANCY THERE SOMETHING DEPRESSING SUBDUING SUDDEN GLOOM COLD DANK VAULT “THEY HAVE RETREAT WHISPERED HOLMES “THAT BACK THROUGH HOUSE INTO SAXE-COBURG SQUARE HOPE THAT HAVE DONE WHAT ASKED JONES HAVE INSPECTOR OFFICERS WAITING FRONT DOOR “THEN HAVE STOPPED HOLES MUST SILENT WAIT WHAT TIME SEEMED FROM COMPARING NOTES AFTERWARDS HOUR QUARTER APPEARED THAT NIGHT MUST HAVE ALMOST GONE DAWN BREAKING ABOVE LIMBS WERE WEARY STIFF FEARED CHANGE POSITION NERVES WERE WORKED HIGHEST PITCH TENSION HEARING ACUTE THAT COULD ONLY HEAR GENTLE BREATHING COMPANIONS COULD DISTINGUISH DEEPER HEAVIER IN-BREATH BULKY JONES FROM THIN SIGHING NOTE BANK DIRECTOR FROM POSITION COULD LOOK OVER CASE DIRECTION FLOOR SUDDENLY EYES CAUGHT GLINT LIGHT FIRST LURID SPARK UPON STONE PAVEMENT THEN LENGTHENED UNTIL BECAME YELLOW LINE THEN WITHOUT WARNING SOUND GASH SEEMED OPEN HAND APPEARED WHITE ALMOST WOMANLY HAND WHICH FELT ABOUT CENTRE LITTLE AREA LIGHT MINUTE MORE HAND WITH WRITHING FINGERS PROTRUDED FLOOR THEN WITHDRAWN SUDDENLY APPEARED DARK AGAIN SAVE SINGLE LURID SPARK WHICH MARKED CHINK BETWEEN STONES DISAPPEARANCE HOWEVER MOMENTARY WITH RENDING TEARING SOUND BROAD WHITE STONES TURNED OVER UPON SIDE LEFT SQUARE GAPING HOLE THROUGH WHICH STREAMED LIGHT LANTERN OVER EDGE THERE PEEPED CLEAN-CUT BOYISH FACE WHICH LOOKED KEENLY ABOUT THEN WITH HAND EITHER SIDE APERTURE DREW ITSELF SHOULDER-HIGH WAIST-HIGH UNTIL KNEE RESTED UPON EDGE ANOTHER INSTANT STOOD SIDE HOLE HAULING AFTER COMPANION LITHE SMALL LIKE HIMSELF WITH PALE FACE SHOCK VERY HAIR “IT’S CLEAR WHISPERED “HAVE CHISEL BAGS GREAT SCOTT JUMP ARCHIE JUMP I’LL SWING SHERLOCK HOLMES SPRUNG SEIZED INTRUDER COLLAR OTHER DIVED DOWN HOLE HEARD SOUND RENDING CLOTH JONES CLUTCHED SKIRTS LIGHT FLASHED UPON BARREL REVOLVER HOLMES’ HUNTING CROP CAME DOWN MAN’S WRIST PISTOL CLINKED UPON STONE FLOOR “IT’S JOHN CLAY SAID HOLMES BLANDLY “YOU HAVE CHANCE OTHER ANSWERED WITH UTMOST COOLNESS FANCY THAT RIGHT THOUGH HAVE COAT-TAILS “THERE THREE WAITING DOOR SAID HOLMES INDEED SEEM HAVE DONE THING VERY COMPLETELY MUST COMPLIMENT “AND HOLMES ANSWERED “YOUR RED-HEADED IDEA VERY EFFECTIVE “YOU’LL YOUR AGAIN PRESENTLY SAID JONES “HE’S QUICKER CLIMBING DOWN HOLES THAN JUST HOLD WHILE DERBIES THAT WILL TOUCH WITH YOUR FILTHY HANDS REMARKED PRISONER HANDCUFFS CLATTERED UPON WRISTS “YOU AWARE THAT HAVE ROYAL BLOOD VEINS HAVE GOODNESS ALSO WHEN ADDRESS ALWAYS ‘SIR’ ‘PLEASE “ALL RIGHT SAID JONES WITH STARE SNIGGER “WELL WOULD PLEASE MARCH UPSTAIRS WHERE CARRY YOUR HIGHNESS POLICE-STATION “THAT BETTER SAID JOHN CLAY SERENELY MADE SWEEPING THREE WALKED QUIETLY CUSTODY DETECTIVE “REALLY HOLMES SAID MERRYWEATHER FOLLOWED THEM FROM CELLAR KNOW BANK THANK REPAY THERE DOUBT THAT HAVE DETECTED DEFEATED MOST COMPLETE MANNER MOST DETERMINED ATTEMPTS BANK ROBBERY THAT HAVE EVER COME WITHIN EXPERIENCE HAVE LITTLE SCORES SETTLE WITH JOHN CLAY SAID HOLMES HAVE BEEN SOME SMALL EXPENSE OVER THIS MATTER WHICH SHALL EXPECT BANK REFUND BEYOND THAT AMPLY REPAID HAVING EXPERIENCE WHICH MANY WAYS UNIQUE HEARING VERY REMARKABLE NARRATIVE RED-HEADED LEAGUE “YOU WATSON EXPLAINED EARLY HOURS MORNING OVER GLASS WHISKY SODA BAKER STREET PERFECTLY OBVIOUS FROM FIRST THAT ONLY POSSIBLE OBJECT THIS RATHER FANTASTIC BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT LEAGUE COPYING ENCYCLOPAEDIA MUST THIS OVER-BRIGHT PAWNBROKER NUMBER HOURS EVERY CURIOUS MANAGING REALLY WOULD DIFFICULT SUGGEST BETTER METHOD DOUBT SUGGESTED CLAY’S INGENIOUS MIND COLOUR ACCOMPLICE’S HAIR WEEK LURE WHICH MUST DRAW WHAT THEM WERE PLAYING THOUSANDS THEY ADVERTISEMENT ROGUE TEMPORARY OFFICE OTHER ROGUE INCITES APPLY TOGETHER THEY MANAGE SECURE ABSENCE EVERY MORNING WEEK FROM TIME THAT HEARD ASSISTANT HAVING COME HALF WAGES OBVIOUS THAT SOME STRONG MOTIVE SECURING SITUATION “BUT COULD GUESS WHAT MOTIVE “HAD THERE BEEN WOMEN HOUSE SHOULD HAVE SUSPECTED MERE VULGAR INTRIGUE THAT HOWEVER QUESTION MAN’S BUSINESS SMALL THERE NOTHING HOUSE WHICH COULD ACCOUNT SUCH ELABORATE PREPARATIONS SUCH EXPENDITURE THEY WERE MUST THEN SOMETHING HOUSE WHAT COULD THOUGHT ASSISTANT’S FONDNESS PHOTOGRAPHY TRICK VANISHING INTO CELLAR CELLAR THERE THIS TANGLED CLUE THEN MADE INQUIRIES THIS MYSTERIOUS ASSISTANT FOUND THAT DEAL WITH COOLEST MOST DARING CRIMINALS LONDON DOING SOMETHING CELLAR—SOMETHING WHICH TOOK MANY HOURS MONTHS WHAT COULD ONCE MORE COULD THINK NOTHING SAVE THAT RUNNING TUNNEL SOME OTHER BUILDING WHEN WENT VISIT SCENE ACTION SURPRISED BEATING UPON PAVEMENT WITH STICK ASCERTAINING WHETHER CELLAR STRETCHED FRONT BEHIND FRONT THEN RANG BELL HOPED ASSISTANT ANSWERED HAVE SOME SKIRMISHES NEVER EYES UPON EACH OTHER BEFORE HARDLY LOOKED FACE KNEES WERE WHAT WISHED MUST YOURSELF HAVE REMARKED WORN WRINKLED STAINED THEY WERE THEY SPOKE THOSE HOURS BURROWING ONLY REMAINING POINT WHAT THEY WERE BURROWING WALKED ROUND CORNER CITY SUBURBAN BANK ABUTTED FRIEND’S PREMISES FELT THAT SOLVED PROBLEM WHEN DROVE HOME AFTER CONCERT CALLED UPON SCOTLAND YARD UPON CHAIRMAN BANK DIRECTORS WITH RESULT THAT HAVE SEEN “AND COULD TELL THAT THEY WOULD MAKE THEIR ATTEMPT TO-NIGHT ASKED “WELL WHEN THEY CLOSED THEIR LEAGUE OFFICES THAT SIGN THAT THEY CARED LONGER ABOUT JABEZ WILSON’S PRESENCE—IN OTHER WORDS THAT THEY COMPLETED THEIR TUNNEL ESSENTIAL THAT THEY SHOULD SOON MIGHT DISCOVERED BULLION MIGHT REMOVED SATURDAY WOULD SUIT THEM BETTER THAN OTHER WOULD GIVE THEM DAYS THEIR ESCAPE THESE REASONS EXPECTED THEM COME TO-NIGHT “YOU REASONED BEAUTIFULLY EXCLAIMED UNFEIGNED ADMIRATION LONG CHAIN EVERY LINK RINGS TRUE SAVED FROM ENNUI ANSWERED YAWNING “ALAS ALREADY FEEL CLOSING UPON LIFE SPENT LONG EFFORT ESCAPE FROM COMMONPLACES EXISTENCE THESE LITTLE PROBLEMS HELP “AND BENEFACTOR RACE SAID SHRUGGED SHOULDERS “WELL PERHAPS AFTER SOME LITTLE REMARKED ‘L’HOMME C’EST RIEN—L’OEUVRE C’EST TOUT GUSTAVE FLAUBERT WROTE GEORGE SAND ADVENTURE CASE IDE
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