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Books at bedtime by Calmingg Anxiert the sign of the four chapter six Sherlock Holmes

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gives a demonstration.

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"Now Watson," said Holmes, rubbing his hands, "we have half an hour to ourselves.

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Let us make good use of it.

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My case is, as I have told you, almost complete, but we must not err on the side of over

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confidence.

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Simple as the case seems now.

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There may be something deeper underlying it."

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"Simple?"

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I ejaculated.

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"Surely," said he.

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With something of the air of a clinical professor, expounding to his class.

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Just sit in the corner there, that your footprints may not complicate matters.

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Now to work.

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In the first place, how did these folks come and how did they go?

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The door has not been opened since last night.

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How of the window?

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He carried the lamp across to it, muttering his observations allowed the while, but addressing

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them to himself rather than to me.

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Window is snubbed on the inner side.

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Framework is solid.

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No hinges at the side.

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Better say, "Open it."

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I walked pipe near, roofed quite out of reach, yet a man has mounted by the window.

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It rained a little last night.

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Here is the print of a foot emolled upon the cell.

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And here is a circular muddy mark.

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And here again upon the floor, and here again by the table.

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See here, Watson?

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This is rarely a very pretty demonstration.

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I looked at the round, well-defined muddy discs.

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"That is not a footprint," said I.

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"It is something much more valuable to us.

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It is the impression of a wooden stump."

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You see here on the cell is the bootmark, a heavy boot, with the broad metal heel, and

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the side at the mark of a timber shoe.

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It is the wooden-legged man.

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Quite so, but there has been someone else, a very able and efficient ally.

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Could you scale that wall, Doctor?

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I looked out at the open window.

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The moon still shone brightly on the angle of the house.

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You are a good 60 feet above the ground, and look where I would, I could see no foot hold,

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nor is much as a crevice in the brickwork.

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It is absolutely impossible, I answered.

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Without aid, it is so.

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But suppose you had a friend up here who lowered you this good stout rope, which I see in the

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corner, securing one end of it to the great hook in the wall.

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Then, I think, if you were an active man, you might swarm up wooden leg and all.

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You would depart, of course, in the same fashion, and your ally would draw up the rope,

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untie it from the hook, shut the window, snip it on the inside, and get away in the way

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here it really came in.

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As a minor point, it may be noted, he continued, fingering the rope, that our wooden-legged friend,

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though a fair climber, was not a professional sailor.

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His hands were far from horny.

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My lens discloses more than one bloodmark, especially towards the end of the rope, from which

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I gather that he slipped down with such velocity that he took the skin off his hand.

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"This is all very well," said I, "but the thing becomes more unintelligible than ever.

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How about this mysterious ally?

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How came he into the room?"

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"Yes, the ally," repeated Holmes, pensively.

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"There are features of interest about this ally.

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He lifts the case from the regions of the commonplace."

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"I fancy that this ally breaks fresh ground in the aniles of crime in this country, though

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parallel cases suggest themselves from India, and if my memory serves me, from Senengambia."

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"He came in, then," I reiterated.

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The door is locked, the window is in accessible.

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Was it through the chimney?

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The grate is much too small, he answered.

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I had already considered that possibility.

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"How then?" I persisted.

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"You will not apply my precept," he said, shaking his head.

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"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,

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however imporable must be the truth?"

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We know that he did not come through the door.

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The window or the chimney.

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We also know that he could not have been concealed in the room, as there is no concealment

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possible.

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Went slain, did he?

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He came through the hole in the roof, I cried.

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Of course he did, he must have done so.

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If you will have the kindness to hold the lamp for me, we shall now extend our researchers

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to the room above, the secret room in which the treasure was found.

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He mounted the steps, and seizing a rafter with either hand, he swung himself up into

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the garret, then lying on his face, he reached down for the lamp and held it a while as I followed

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him.

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The chamber in which we found ourselves was about ten feet, one way and six the other.

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The floor was formed by the rafters, within last and plaster between them, so that in

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walking one had to step from beam to beam.

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The roof ran up to an apex, and was evidently the inner shell of the true roof of the house.

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There was no third of any sort, and the accumulated dust of the ears lay thick upon the floor.

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"Here you are," you see.

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The Sherlock Holmes putting his hand against the sloping wall.

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This is a trap door which leads out onto the roof.

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I can press it back, and here is the roof itself, sloping at a gentle angle.

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This then is the way by which number one entered.

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Let us see if we can find any other traces of his individuality.

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He held down the lamp to the floor.

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And as he did so, I saw for the second time that night a startled surprise look came of

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over his face.

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For myself, as I followed his gaze, my skin was cold under my clothes.

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The floor was covered thickly with the prints of a naked foot, clear, well-defined, perfectly

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formed, but scarce half the size of those of an ordinary man.

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"Homes," I said in a whisper.

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A child has done this horrid thing.

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He had recovered his self-possession in an instant.

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"I was slagged for the moment," he said.

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"But the thing is quite natural.

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My memory failed me, or I should have been able to foretell it.

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There is nothing more to be learned here.

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Let us go down."

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What is your theory then? as to those footmarks I asked, ealy, when we had regained the

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lower room once more.

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My dear Watson, try a little analysis yourself," said he, with a touch of impatience.

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"You know my methods.

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Apply them, and it will be instructive to compare results.

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I cannot conceive anything which will cover the facts I answered.

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It will be clear enough to you soon," he said in an offhand way.

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"I think that there is nothing else of importance here, but I will look."

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He whipped out his lens and a tape measure, and hurried about the room on his knees, measuring,

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comparing, examining, with his long, thin nose only a few inches from the planks, and his

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BDI's gleaming and deep-set like those of a bird.

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So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained bloodhound picking up

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a scent that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned

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his energy and sagacity against the law, instead of exerting them in its defense.

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As he hunted about, he kept muttering to himself, and finally he broke out into a loud crow

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of delight.

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"We are certainly in luck," said he.

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"We ought to have very little trouble now."

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Number one, has had the misfortune to tread in creasod.

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You can see the outline of the edge of his small foot here at the side of this evil smelling

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mess.

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"Carboy has been cracked."

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You see, that's the stuff that is leaked out.

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What then I asked?

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"Why?"

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"We have got him, that's all," said he.

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"I know a dog that would follow that scent to the world's end."

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"If a pack can track a trailed herring across a shire, how far can a specially trained

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hound follow so pungent to smell as this?"

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It sounds like a sum in a rule of three.

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The answers should give us, but halah, here are the accredited representatives of the law.

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Heavy steps, and the clamor of loud voices were audible from below, and the hall door shut

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with a loud crash.

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"Before they come," said Holmes, "just put your hand here on this poor fellow's arm, and

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here on his leg, what do you feel?"

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The muscles are as hard as a board, I answered, quite so.

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They are in a state of extreme contraction, far exceeding the usual rigour mortis.

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Coupled with this distortion of the face, this hypocritic smile, or recessed sardinicus,

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as the old rite is called it, "What conclusion could you suggest in your mind?"

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Death, from some very powerful vegetable alkaloid, I answered, "Some strict mean-like substance,

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which would produce tetanus."

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That was the idea which occurred to me.

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The instant I saw the drawn muscles on the face, on getting into the room, I at once looked

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for the means by which the poison had entered the system.

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As you saw, I discovered a thorn which had been driven or shot with no great force into

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the scalp.

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You observe that the parts struck was that which could be turned towards the hole in the ceiling

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if a man were erect in his chair.

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Now examine the thorn.

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I took it up gingerly and held it to the light of the lantern.

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It was long, sharp and black, with a glazed look near the point as though some gummy substances

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had dried upon it.

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The blunt end had been trimmed and rounded off with a knife.

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"Is that an English thorn?" he asked.

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"No, it certainly is not.

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With all these daties, you should be able to draw just some inference, but here are the

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regulars, so the auxiliary forces may beat or treat."

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As he spoke, the steps which had been coming nearer sounded loudly on the passage, and a

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very stout, portly man in a grey suit, rode heavily into the room.

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He was red-faced, burly and plathoric, with a pair of small twinkling eyes which looked

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keenly out from between swollen and puffy pouches.

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He was closely followed by an Inspectoran uniform, and by the still palpating, Theodor's

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shoulder.

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"Here's a business," he cried, in a muffled husky voice.

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"Here's a pretty business."

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"But who are all these? Why? The house seems to be as full as a rabbit wearing."

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"I think you must recollect me," Mr. Atty Jones said home quietly.

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"Why, of course, I do," he weased.

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"It's Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the theorist."

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"Remember you, I'll never forget, how you lectured us all on causes and inferences,

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and the effects in the Bishop's Scale Jewel case."

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"It's true. You set us on the right track.

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But you're alone now, that it would be as more of good luck than good guidance."

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"It was a piece of very simple reasoning."

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"Oh, come now, come. Never be ashamed to own up. But what is all this? Bad business, bad

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business. Stirn facts here. No room for theories. How lucky that I happened to be out at Norwood

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over another case. I was at the station when the message arrived.

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What do you think the man died of?"

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"Oh, Mrs. Hardley, a case for me to theorise over," said Holmes dryly.

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"No, no, still. We can't deny that you hit the nail on the head sometimes."

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"Dear me, door locked, I understand. Jewels worth half a million missing. How was the

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window?"

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"Far-send. But there are steps on the cell."

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"Well, well. If it was a far-send, the steps could have done nothing to do with the matter.

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That's common sense. Man might have died in a fit, but then the jewels are missing.

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Ha, I have a theory."

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These flashes come to me at times. Just step outside, Sergeant, and you, Mr. Sholto, your friend

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can remain.

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"What do you think of this, Holmes?" Sholto was, on his own confession, was his brother

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last night. The brother died in a fit on which Sholto walked off for the Trevor. How's that?

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On which the dead man very considerably got up and locked the door on the inside.

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Hmm, there's a floor there. Let us apply common sense to the manor. This, thaddy, is Sholto,

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was with his brother. There was a quarrel, so much we know. The brother is dead, and the jewels

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are gone. So much also we know. Now, no one saw the brother from the time Thaddeus left him.

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His bed had not been slept in. Thaddeus is evidently in a most disturbed state of mind.

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His appearance is, well, not attractive. You see that I'm weaving my web around Thaddeus.

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The net begins to close upon him.

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"You are not quite in possession of the faxia,," said Holmes. "This splinter of wood, which I've

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every reason to believe to be poisoned, was in the man's scalp where you still see them out.

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This card, inscribed as you see it, was on the table, and beside it lay the rather curious,

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stone-headed instrument."

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"How does all that fit into your theory?"

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Confirms it in every respect said the fact detective pomposely.

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"How's his full of indian curiosity?"

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Thaddeus brought this up, and if this splinter be poisonous,

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Thaddeus may well have made murderous use of it as any other man.

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The card is some hocus-pocus, a blind, as light is not.

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The only question is, how did he depart?

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"Ah, of course. Here is the hole in the roof."

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With great activity, considering his bulk, he sprang up the steps and squeezed through into the

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carrot, and immediately afterwards, we heard his ex-tling voice proclaiming that he had found the

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trap door. He can find something remarked home shrugging his shoulders. He has occasional glimmers of reason.

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"You see," said at our felony, James, reappearing down the steps again, faxia better than me a

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theory's after all. "My view of the case is confirmed. There is a trap door communicating with

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the roof, and it is partly open. It was I who opened it."

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"Oh indeed, you did notice it then. He seemed a little crestful and at this discovery."

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"Well, whoever noticed it, it shows how our gentleman got away."

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"Inspector?"

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"Yes sir, from the passage."

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"Ask Mr. Shalto to step this way."

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"Mr. Shalto, it is my duty to inform you that you are anything, which you say may

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you will be used against you. I arrest you in the queen's name as being concerned in the death of

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your brother." "There, now."

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"Didn't I tell you?" cried the poor little man, throwing out his hands and looking from one of us

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to the other. "Don't trouble yourself about it, Mr. Shalto," said Holmes, "I think I can engage

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to clear you of the charge." "Don't promise too much, Mr. Thearest. Don't promise too much."

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"Snap the detective. You may find it harder matter than you think."

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"Not only will I clear him, Mr. Jones, but I will make you a free present to the name and

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description of the one of the two people who were here in this room last night. His name,

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I have every reason to believe, is Jonathan Small. He is a poorly educated man,

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small, active, with his right leg off and wearing a wooden stump which is worn

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away upon the inner side. His left boot has a coarse, square toad sole, with an iron band round

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the heel. He is a middle-aged man, much sunburned, and has been a convict. These few indications may be

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of some assistance to you. Coupled with the fact there is a good deal of skin missing from the palm of

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his hand. The other man are, the other man asked a felony Jones in a sneering voice, but impressed

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nonetheless as I could easily see, by the precision of the other's manner. "Is a rather curious

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person," said Sherlock Holmes, turning upon his heel, "I hope that before very long to be able to

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introduce you to the pair of them. A word with you, Watson." He led me out of the head of the stairs.

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"There's unexpected occurrence," he said, "has caused us rather to lose sight of the original

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purpose of our journey." "I have just been thinking so," I answered. "It is not right that Miss

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Morston should remain in the stricken house." "No, you must escort her home."

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She lives with Mrs. Cecil Forrester in Lower Campbellwell, so it is not very far.

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"I will wait for you here, if you will drive out again, or perhaps you are too tired."

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By no means, I don't think I could rest until I know more of this fantastic business.

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I have seen something of the rough side of life, but I give you my word that this quick

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succession of strange surprises tonight has shaken my nerve completely. I should like,

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however, to see the matter through with you, now that I have got so far."

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"Your presence will be of great service to me," he answered.

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"We shall work the case out independently, and leave this fellow Jones to exalt over any

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mayorsness which he may choose to construct."

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"When you have dropped Miss Morston off, I wish you to go on to number three, Pinch and Lane,

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down near the water's edge at Lambarth."

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The third house on the right hand side is a bird's stuff, Sherman is the name.

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"You will see a weasel holding a young rabbit in the window."

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"Knock, old Sherman up, and tell him with my compliments that I want Toby at once."

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"You will bring Toby back in the cap with you."

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"A dog, I suppose?"

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"Yes, a queer mongrel with the most amazing paracent.

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I would rather have Toby's help than that of the whole detective force of London."

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"I shall bring him here then," said I. "It is one now. I ought to be back before three if I can get

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a fresh horse, and I said homes. She'll see what I can learn from Mrs Bernstun, and from the

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Indian servant who, Mr Faddeus, tells me, sleeps in the next carrot."

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"Then I shall study the great Jones methods, and listen to his not too delicate sarcasm."

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"The sinned gewon to dimass machen overhormen visinnecht verstehen."

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"Goth is always pity."

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