The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
the official force.” “Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right,” said the stranger with deference. “Stil ...
stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after o ...
head. In the meantime Mr. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern.” “And sit in the d ...
suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink betwee ...
“Really, Mr. Holmes,” said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them from the cellar, “I do not know how ...
other building. “So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I surprised you by beating upo ...
III. A CASE OF IDENTITY “My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire i ...
case, and, as it happens, I was engaged in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The h ...
who leaves the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp clang of the bell. “I have seen thos ...
would not go to the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he would do nothing and kept o ...
Kindly tell us now all about your connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel.” A flush stole over Miss Sutherla ...
Hosmer—Mr. Angel—was a cashier in an office in Leadenhall Street—and—” “What office?” “That’s the worst of it, Mr ...
was only a few years older than me; but I didn’t want to do anything on the sly, so I wrote to fat ...
borrowed my money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, there might be some reason, but ...
the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of infinite languor in his face. “Quite ...
“But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and interested on glancing down to observe that, ...
“I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able to deny his signature if an acti ...
The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet opened his lips to reply, when we heard a ...
some of these days on the typewriter and its relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devot ...
But soon he found that that would not answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her ri ...
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