Did William say anything to his mother before going out? She is very old and deaf, and we can get no information from her. The shock has made her half-witted, but I understand that she was never very bright. There is one very important circumstance,...
Good-morning, Colonel, said he; I hope I don't intrude, but we hear that Mr. Holmes of Baker Street is here. The Colonel waved his hand towards my friend, and the Inspector bowed. We thought that perhaps you would care to step across, Mr. Holmes. The...
The Colonel whistled. By Jove! said he. Who's killed, then? The J.P. or his son? Neither, sir. It was William the coachman. Shot through the heart, sir, and never spoke again. Who shot him, then? The burglar, sir. He was off like a shot and got clean...
On the evening of our arrival we were sitting in the Colonel's gun-room after dinner, Holmes stretched upon the sofa, while Hayter and I looked over his little armory of Eastern weapons. By the way, said he suddenly, I think I'll take one of these pi...
The Reigate Puzzle It was some time before the health of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes recovered from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of '87. The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of...
Ah, that is a question that will take some time to answer. And with that I sketched out to him the whole long chain of surmise and of proof which I had constructed. The twilight had closed in and the moon was shining brightly in the sky before my nar...
You must bear in mind, said I, that the royal party made head in England even after the death of the King, and that when they at last fled they probably left many of their most precious possessions buried behind them, with the intention of returning...
And now how was I to proceed to reconstruct this midnight drama? Clearly, only one could fit into the hole, and that one was Brunton. The girl must have waited above. Brunton then unlocked the box, handed up the contents presumablysince they were not...
I confess that so far, Watson, I had been disappointed in my investigation. I had reckoned upon solving the matter when once I had found the place referred to in the Ritual; but now I was there, and was apparently as far as ever from knowing what it...
And under, he cried. You have omitted the and under. I had thought that it meant that we were to dig, but now, of course, I saw at once that I was wrong. There is a cellar under this then? I cried. Yes, and as old as the house. Down here, through thi...
