git-scribe 0.0.3 → 0.0.4
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- data/docbook-xsl/COPYING +47 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/VERSION +115 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/catalog.xml +8 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common.xsl +87 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/af.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/am.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ar.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/autoidx-kimber.xsl +43 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/autoidx-kosek.xsl +150 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/az.xml +672 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/bg.xml +724 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/bn.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/bs.xml +662 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ca.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/charmap.xml +185 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/charmap.xsl +221 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/common.xml +622 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/common.xsl +2019 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/cs.xml +700 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/cy.xml +1245 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/da.xml +664 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/de.xml +666 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/el.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/en.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/entities.ent +60 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/eo.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/es.xml +676 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/et.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/eu.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/fa.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/fi.xml +670 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/fr.xml +690 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ga.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/gentext.xsl +836 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/gl.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/gu.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/he.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/hi.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/hr.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/hu.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/id.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/insertfile.xsl +111 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/it.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ja.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/kn.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ko.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/l10n.dtd +63 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/l10n.xml +129 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/l10n.xsl +497 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/la.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/labels.xsl +869 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/lt.xml +678 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/lv.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/mn.xml +730 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/nb.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/nl.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/nn.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/olink.xsl +1149 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/or.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/pa.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/pi.xml +165 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/pi.xsl +346 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/pl.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/pt.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/pt_br.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/refentry.xml +781 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/refentry.xsl +1352 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ro.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ru.xml +726 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/sk.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/sl.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/sq.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/sr.xml +720 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/sr_Latn.xml +679 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/stripns.xsl +289 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/subtitles.xsl +155 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/sv.xml +664 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/ta.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/table.xsl +514 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/targetdatabase.dtd +49 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/targets.xsl +272 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/th.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/titles.xsl +752 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/tl.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/tr.xml +666 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/uk.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/utility.xml +259 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/utility.xsl +290 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/vi.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/xh.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/zh_cn.xml +660 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/common/zh_tw.xml +1229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/authors.xml +10 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/copyright.xml +18 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/license.xml +23 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/page.png +0 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/reference.css +60 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/reference.xml +229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/reference.xml.included +32701 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/docsrc/warranty.xml +11 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/epub/README +88 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/epub/bin/dbtoepub +65 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/epub/bin/lib/docbook.rb +206 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/epub/docbook.xsl +1638 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/extensions/README.LIBXSLT +52 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/extensions/docbook.py +240 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/extensions/saxon65.jar +0 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/extensions/xalan27.jar +0 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/extensions/xslt.py +83 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl +152 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/admon.xsl +130 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/annotations.xsl +18 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx-kimber.xsl +178 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx-kosek.xsl +150 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx-ng.xsl +20 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/autoidx.xsl +1310 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/autotoc.xsl +892 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/axf.xsl +110 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/biblio-iso690.xsl +1300 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/biblio.xsl +1169 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/block.xsl +600 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/callout.xsl +231 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/component.xsl +811 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/division.xsl +611 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/docbook.xsl +336 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/ebnf.xsl +325 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/fo-rtf.xsl +154 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/fo.xsl +71 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/footnote.xsl +220 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/fop.xsl +93 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/fop1.xsl +174 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/formal.xsl +615 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/glossary.xsl +1112 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/graphics.xsl +642 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/highlight.xsl +75 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/htmltbl.xsl +217 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/index.xsl +481 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/info.xsl +34 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/inline.xsl +1275 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/keywords.xsl +21 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/lists.xsl +1260 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/math.xsl +140 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/pagesetup.xsl +2314 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/param.xml +11823 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/param.xsl +899 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/passivetex.xsl +36 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/pdf2index +140 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/pi.xml +969 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/pi.xsl +1052 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/profile-docbook.xsl +289 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/ptc.xsl +77 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/qandaset.xsl +393 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/refentry.xsl +637 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/sections.xsl +764 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/spaces.xsl +274 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/synop.xsl +1002 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/table.xml +135 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/table.xsl +1552 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/task.xsl +91 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.templates.xml +1311 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.templates.xsl +5094 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/titlepage.xsl +750 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/toc.xsl +274 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/verbatim.xsl +417 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/xep.xsl +180 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/fo/xref.xsl +1486 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/c-hl.xml +101 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/common.xsl +120 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/cpp-hl.xml +150 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/csharp-hl.xml +187 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/delphi-hl.xml +200 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/ini-hl.xml +45 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/java-hl.xml +117 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/javascript-hl.xml +147 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/m2-hl.xml +90 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/myxml-hl.xml +116 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/perl-hl.xml +120 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/php-hl.xml +149 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/python-hl.xml +100 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/ruby-hl.xml +109 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/tcl-hl.xml +180 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/highlighting/xslthl-config.xml +46 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/admon.xsl +132 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/annotations.xsl +169 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx-kimber.xsl +168 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx-kosek.xsl +125 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx-ng.xsl +20 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/autoidx.xsl +645 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/autotoc.xsl +675 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/biblio-iso690.xsl +1300 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/biblio.xsl +1247 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/block.xsl +434 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/callout.xsl +201 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/changebars.xsl +121 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk-changebars.xsl +99 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk-code.xsl +670 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk-common.xsl +1911 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/chunk.xsl +52 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/chunker.xsl +439 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/chunkfast.xsl +72 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/chunktoc.xsl +468 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/component.xsl +403 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/division.xsl +228 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/docbook.xsl +483 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/ebnf.xsl +329 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/footnote.xsl +308 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/formal.xsl +401 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/glossary.xsl +474 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/graphics.xsl +1515 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/highlight.xsl +71 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/html-rtf.xsl +336 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/html.xsl +268 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/htmltbl.xsl +56 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/index.xsl +229 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/info.xsl +43 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/inline.xsl +1497 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/keywords.xsl +35 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/lists.xsl +1143 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/maketoc.xsl +86 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/manifest.xsl +22 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/math.xsl +270 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/oldchunker.xsl +202 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/onechunk.xsl +37 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/param.xml +10397 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/param.xsl +422 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/pi.xml +1113 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/pi.xsl +1263 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-chunk-code.xsl +609 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-chunk.xsl +52 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-docbook.xsl +414 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/profile-onechunk.xsl +37 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/qandaset.xsl +389 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/refentry.xsl +309 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/sections.xsl +628 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/synop.xsl +1549 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/table.xsl +1130 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/html/task.xsl +76 -0
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- data/docbook-xsl/html/toc.xsl +169 -0
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- data/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl +22 -0
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- data/docbook-xsl/params/appendix.autolabel.xml +73 -0
- data/docbook-xsl/params/arbortext.extensions.xml +30 -0
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outside, I shall be with you in five minutes."</p>
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prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable
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inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent
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ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been
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vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that
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for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It
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Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our
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more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one."</p>
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here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here’s half a
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crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her
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villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up
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little woman to-night when she meets me at the door."</p>
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we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can
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can’t get the end of it into my hand. Now, I’ll state the case
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clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a
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spark where all is dark to me."</p>
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of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no
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Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of
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him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far
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as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while
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Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money
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troubles have been weighing upon his mind.</p>
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home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife
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received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his
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departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable
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offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up
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you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for
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got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through
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husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning
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to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she
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agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then
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you found me to-night—and running through the front room she
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whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who
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acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled
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with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the
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lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of
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constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The
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the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no
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sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was
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it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly
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a cascade of children’s bricks. It was the toy which he had
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abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a
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sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon
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bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On
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the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were
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all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of
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his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch—all were
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there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these
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garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St.
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swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of
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the tragedy.</p>
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implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the
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vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair’s story, he was
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seconds of her husband’s appearance at the window, he could
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hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence
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knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he
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gentleman’s clothes.</p>
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Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which
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regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some
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cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he
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greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I
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making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised
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at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His
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appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him
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without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face
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disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has
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turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a
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pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular
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contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid
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the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he
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thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now
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learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been
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the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest."</p>
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against a man in the prime of life?"</p>
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other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man.
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weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional
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strength in the others."</p>
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window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her
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presence could be of no help to them in their investigations.
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examination of the premises, but without finding anything which
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threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not
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arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes
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during which he might have communicated with his friend the
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Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and
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searched, without anything being found which could incriminate
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him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right
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shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been
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cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from
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there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and
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that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from
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the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr.
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Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in
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his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to
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Mrs. St. Clair’s assertion that she had actually seen her husband
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at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or
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dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the
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police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in
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the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue.</p>
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<p>"And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they
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had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair’s coat, and not
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Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And
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what do you think they found in the pockets?"</p>
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<p>"I cannot imagine."</p>
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<p>"No, I don’t think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with
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pennies and half-pennies—421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It
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was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a
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human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between
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the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the
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weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked
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away into the river."</p>
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<p>"But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the
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room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?"</p>
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<p>"No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose
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that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the
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window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed.
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What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him
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that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize
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the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it
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would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little
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time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried
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to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his
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Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street.
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There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret
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hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he
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stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the
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pockets to make sure of the coat’s sinking. He throws it out, and
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would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard
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the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the
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window when the police appeared."</p>
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<p>"It certainly sounds feasible."</p>
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<p>"Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a
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better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the
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station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before
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been anything against him. He had for years been known as a
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professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very
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quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and
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the questions which have to be solved—what Neville St. Clair was
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doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is
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he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance—are
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all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot
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recall any case within my experience which looked at the first
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glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties."</p>
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<p>While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of
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events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great
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town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and
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we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us.
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Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered
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villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows.</p>
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<p>"We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have
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touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in
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Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent.
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See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside
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that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have
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little doubt, caught the clink of our horse’s feet."</p>
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<p>"But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I
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asked.</p>
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<p>"Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here.
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Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and
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you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for
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my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have
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no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!"</p>
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<p>We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its
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own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse’s head, and
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springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding
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gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door
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flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad
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in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy
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pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure
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outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one
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half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head
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and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing
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question.</p>
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<p>"Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two
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of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw
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that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.</p>
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<p>"No good news?"</p>
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<p>"None."</p>
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<p>"No bad?"</p>
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<p>"No."</p>
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<p>"Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have
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had a long day."</p>
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<p>"This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to
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me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it
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possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this
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investigation."</p>
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<p>"I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly.
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"You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our
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arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so
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suddenly upon us."</p>
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<p>"My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were
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not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of
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any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be
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indeed happy."</p>
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<p>"Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a
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well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had
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been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two
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plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain
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answer."</p>
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<p>"Certainly, madam."</p>
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<p>"Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given
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to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion."</p>
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<p>"Upon what point?"</p>
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<p>"In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?"</p>
|
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+
<p>Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question.
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+
"Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking
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+
keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair.</p>
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|
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<p>"Frankly, then, madam, I do not."</p>
|
|
541
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+
<p>"You think that he is dead?"</p>
|
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+
<p>"I do."</p>
|
|
543
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+
<p>"Murdered?"</p>
|
|
544
|
+
<p>"I don’t say that. Perhaps."</p>
|
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+
<p>"And on what day did he meet his death?"</p>
|
|
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+
<p>"On Monday."</p>
|
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547
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+
<p>"Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how
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+
it is that I have received a letter from him to-day."</p>
|
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+
<p>Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been
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|
+
galvanised.</p>
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+
<p>"What!" he roared.</p>
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552
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+
<p>"Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of
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+
paper in the air.</p>
|
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+
<p>"May I see it?"</p>
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555
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+
<p>"Certainly."</p>
|
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+
<p>He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out
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+
upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I
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+
had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The
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+
envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend
|
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+
postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day
|
|
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+
before, for it was considerably after midnight.</p>
|
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+
<p>"Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your
|
|
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|
+
husband’s writing, madam."</p>
|
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+
<p>"No, but the enclosure is."</p>
|
|
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+
<p>"I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go
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|
+
and inquire as to the address."</p>
|
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567
|
+
<p>"How can you tell that?"</p>
|
|
568
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<p>"The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried
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|
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|
+
itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that
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blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight
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|
+
off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This
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|
+
man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before
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|
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|
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he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not
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|
+
familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is
|
|
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|
+
nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha!
|
|
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|
+
there has been an enclosure here!"</p>
|
|
577
|
+
<p>"Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"And you are sure that this is your husband’s hand?"</p>
|
|
579
|
+
<p>"One of his hands."</p>
|
|
580
|
+
<p>"One?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual
|
|
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|
+
writing, and yet I know it well."</p>
|
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|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a
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|
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+
huge error which it may take some little time to rectify.
|
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Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.</em></span> Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf
|
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+
of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in
|
|
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+
Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been
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|
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+
gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been
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+
chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband’s
|
|
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+
hand, madam?"</p>
|
|
591
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+
<p>"None. Neville wrote those words."</p>
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+
<p>"And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair,
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+
the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the
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+
danger is over."</p>
|
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+
<p>"But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes."</p>
|
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+
<p>"Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent.
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|
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+
The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from
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+
him."</p>
|
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+
<p>"No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!"</p>
|
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+
<p>"Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only
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+
posted to-day."</p>
|
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+
<p>"That is possible."</p>
|
|
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+
<p>"If so, much may have happened between."</p>
|
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|
+
<p>"Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is
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+
well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I
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|
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+
should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him
|
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+
last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room
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+
rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that
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|
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+
something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such
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|
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+
a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?"</p>
|
|
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+
<p>"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman
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|
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+
may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical
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|
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+
reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong
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|
+
piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband
|
|
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|
+
is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away
|
|
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|
+
from you?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"No."</p>
|
|
620
|
+
<p>"And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Very much so."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Was the window open?"</p>
|
|
623
|
+
<p>"Yes."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Then he might have called to you?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"He might."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?"</p>
|
|
627
|
+
<p>"Yes."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"A call for help, you thought?"</p>
|
|
629
|
+
<p>"Yes. He waved his hands."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the
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|
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|
+
unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?"</p>
|
|
632
|
+
<p>"It is possible."</p>
|
|
633
|
+
<p>"And you thought he was pulled back?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"He disappeared so suddenly."</p>
|
|
635
|
+
<p>"He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the
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+
room?"</p>
|
|
637
|
+
<p>"No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and
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|
638
|
+
the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his
|
|
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|
+
ordinary clothes on?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare
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|
+
throat."</p>
|
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|
+
<p>"Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Never."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Never."</p>
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|
+
<p>"Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about
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|
+
which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little
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|
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+
supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day
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+
to-morrow."</p>
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+
<p>A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our
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+
disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary
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|
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|
+
after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however,
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|
+
who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for
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|
+
days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over,
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|
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|
+
rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view
|
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+
until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his
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|
+
data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now
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|
+
preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and
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|
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+
waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered
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|
+
about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from
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|
+
the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of
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+
Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with
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an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front
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+
of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an
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+
old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the
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|
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|
+
corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him,
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|
+
silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set
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|
+
aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he
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|
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|
+
sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found
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|
+
the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still
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between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was
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full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of
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shag which I had seen upon the previous night.</p>
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<p>"Awake, Watson?" he asked.</p>
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<p>"Yes."</p>
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<p>"Game for a morning drive?"</p>
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<p>"Certainly."</p>
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<p>"Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the
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stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He
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chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed
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a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night.</p>
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<p>As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one
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was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly
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finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was
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putting in the horse.</p>
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<p>"I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his
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boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the
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presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve
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to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the
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key of the affair now."</p>
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<p>"And where is it?" I asked, smiling.</p>
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<p>"In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he
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continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been
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there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this
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Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will
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not fit the lock."</p>
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<p>We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into
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the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and
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trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both
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sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country
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carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but
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the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as
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some city in a dream.</p>
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<p>"It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes,
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flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been
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as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than
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never to learn it at all."</p>
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<p>In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily
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from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey
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side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the
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river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the
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right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well
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known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted
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him. One of them held the horse’s head while the other led us in.</p>
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<p>"Who is on duty?" asked Holmes.</p>
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<p>"Inspector Bradstreet, sir."</p>
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<p>"Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come
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down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged
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+
jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet."
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"Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small,
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office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a
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telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his
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desk.</p>
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<p>"What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?"</p>
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<p>"I called about that beggarman, Boone—the one who was charged
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with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St.
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+
Clair, of Lee."</p>
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729
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<p>"Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries."</p>
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730
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+
<p>"So I heard. You have him here?"</p>
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<p>"In the cells."</p>
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<p>"Is he quiet?"</p>
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733
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<p>"Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel."</p>
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734
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<p>"Dirty?"</p>
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735
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+
<p>"Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his
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face is as black as a tinker’s. Well, when once his case has been
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settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you
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+
saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it."</p>
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739
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<p>"I should like to see him very much."</p>
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<p>"Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave
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+
your bag."</p>
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742
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+
<p>"No, I think that I’ll take it."</p>
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743
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<p>"Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a
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passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and
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brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each
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|
+
side.</p>
|
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+
<p>"The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it
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+
is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door
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and glanced through.</p>
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<p>"He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well."</p>
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<p>We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his
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face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and
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heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his
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calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his
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tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely
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+
dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its
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+
repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right
|
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across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up
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+
one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a
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+
perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over
|
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+
his eyes and forehead.</p>
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+
<p>"He’s a beauty, isn’t he?" said the inspector.</p>
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+
<p>"He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that
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he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me."
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|
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+
He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my
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+
astonishment, a very large bath-sponge.</p>
|
|
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+
<p>"He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector.</p>
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+
<p>"Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very
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|
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+
quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable
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|
+
figure."</p>
|
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+
<p>"Well, I don’t know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn’t
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+
look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his
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key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The
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+
sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep
|
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+
slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge,
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|
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+
and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the
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+
prisoner’s face.</p>
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+
<p>"Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of
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|
+
Lee, in the county of Kent."</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man’s face peeled
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+
off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the
|
|
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+
coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had
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+
seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the
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784
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+
repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled
|
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+
red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale,
|
|
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|
+
sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned,
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|
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+
rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment.
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|
+
Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and
|
|
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|
+
threw himself down with his face to the pillow.</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing
|
|
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|
+
man. I know him from the photograph."</p>
|
|
792
|
+
<p>The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons
|
|
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|
+
himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I
|
|
794
|
+
charged with?"</p>
|
|
795
|
+
<p>"With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can’t be
|
|
796
|
+
charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of
|
|
797
|
+
it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been
|
|
798
|
+
twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake."</p>
|
|
799
|
+
<p>"If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime
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|
800
|
+
has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally
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|
801
|
+
detained."</p>
|
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802
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+
<p>"No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said
|
|
803
|
+
Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife."</p>
|
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804
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+
<p>"It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner.
|
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805
|
+
"God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My
|
|
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|
+
God! What an exposure! What can I do?"</p>
|
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|
+
<p>Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him
|
|
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|
+
kindly on the shoulder.</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said
|
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810
|
+
he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand,
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|
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|
+
if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible
|
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|
+
case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the
|
|
813
|
+
details should find their way into the papers. Inspector
|
|
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|
+
Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you
|
|
815
|
+
might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case
|
|
816
|
+
would then never go into court at all."</p>
|
|
817
|
+
<p>"God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have
|
|
818
|
+
endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left
|
|
819
|
+
my miserable secret as a family blot to my children.</p>
|
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|
+
<p>"You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a
|
|
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|
+
schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent
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|
+
education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and
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|
+
finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day
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+
my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the
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|
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+
metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point
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826
|
+
from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying
|
|
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|
+
begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to
|
|
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|
+
base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the
|
|
829
|
+
secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for
|
|
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|
+
my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my
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|
831
|
+
face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good
|
|
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|
+
scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a
|
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|
+
small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of
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|
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+
hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business
|
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|
+
part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a
|
|
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|
+
beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned
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|
+
home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no
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|
+
less than 26s. 4d.</p>
|
|
839
|
+
<p>"I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until,
|
|
840
|
+
some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ
|
|
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|
+
served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit’s end where to get
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|
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|
+
the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight’s
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|
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|
+
grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers,
|
|
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|
+
and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In
|
|
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|
+
ten days I had the money and had paid the debt.</p>
|
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|
+
<p>"Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous
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|
+
work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in
|
|
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|
+
a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on
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the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my
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+
pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up
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+
reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first
|
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+
chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets
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with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a
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low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could
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every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings
|
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transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow,
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a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that
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my secret was safe in his possession.</p>
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<p>"Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of
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money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London
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could earn 700 pounds a year—which is less than my average
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takings—but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making
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up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by
|
|
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+
practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City.
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|
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All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me,
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|
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|
+
and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds.</p>
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|
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<p>"As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the
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|
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|
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country, and eventually married, without anyone having a
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|
+
suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had
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business in the City. She little knew what.</p>
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+
<p>"Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my
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room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw,
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to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the
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street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of
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surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my
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confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from
|
|
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|
+
coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that
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|
+
she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on
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+
those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife’s
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+
eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it
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+
occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that
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+
the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening
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+
by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in
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|
+
the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was
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weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from
|
|
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|
+
the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of
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|
+
the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes
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|
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|
+
would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of
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+
constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather,
|
|
890
|
+
I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr.
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|
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|
+
Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer.</p>
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|
+
<p>"I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I
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893
|
+
was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and
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|
+
hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would
|
|
895
|
+
be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the
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|
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|
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Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together
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+
with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to
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|
+
fear."</p>
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|
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<p>"That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes.</p>
|
|
900
|
+
<p>"Good God! What a week she must have spent!"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet,
|
|
902
|
+
"and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to
|
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903
|
+
post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor
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904
|
+
customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days."</p>
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|
+
<p>"That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt
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|
906
|
+
of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?"</p>
|
|
907
|
+
<p>"Many times; but what was a fine to me?"</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are
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|
+
to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone."</p>
|
|
910
|
+
<p>"I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take."</p>
|
|
911
|
+
<p>"In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps
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|
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|
+
may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out.
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913
|
+
I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for
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|
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|
+
having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your
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|
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+
results."</p>
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|
+
<p>"I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five
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|
+
pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if
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|
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|
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we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast."</p>
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