The fact is, your Grace, said he, that my colleague, Dr. Watson, and myself had an assurance from Dr. Huxtable that a reward had been offered in this case. I should like to have this confirmed from your own lips. Certainly, Mr. Holmes. It amounted, i...
At eleven o'clock next morning my friend and I were walking up the famous yew avenue of Holdernesse Hall. We were ushered through the magnificent Elizabethan doorway and into his Grace's study. There we found Mr. James Wilder, demure and courtly, but...
What do you make of that, Watson? Holmes whispered. It looks like a flight. A single man in a dog-cart, so far as I could see. Well, it certainly was not Mr. James Wilder, for there he is at the door. A red square of light had sprung out of the darkn...
You're welcome to all you can find out in my smithy, said he. But look here, mister, I don't care for folk poking about my place without my leave, so the sooner you pay your score and get out of this the better I shall be pleased. All right, Mr. Haye...
Now, Watson, make an effort; throw your mind back! Can you see those tracks upon the path? Yes, I can. Can you recall that the tracks were sometimes like that, Watsonhe arranged a number of bread-crumbs in this fashion: : : : :and sometimes like this...
As we approached the forbidding and squalid inn, with I've less reason to wish the Dook well than most men, said he, for I was his head coachman once, and cruel bad he treated me. It was him that sacked me without a character on the word of a lying c...
the sign of a game-cock above the door, Holmes gave a sudden groan and clutched me by the shoulder to save himself from falling. He had had one of those violent strains of the ankle which leave a man helpless. With difficulty he limped up to the door...
So it would seem. Now I come to the critical part of my argument. The natural action of a man in pursuing a little boy would be to run after him. He would know that he could overtake him. But the German does not do so. He turns to his bicycle. I am t...
Holmes turned the body over reverently, and examined it with great attention. He then sat in deep thought for a time, and I could see by his ruffled brow that this grim discovery had not, in his opinion, advanced us much in our inquiry. It is a littl...
Here is Herr Heidegger, sure enough! cried Holmes, exultantly. My reasoning seems to have been pretty sound, Watson. I congratulate you. But we have a long way still to go. Kindly walk clear of the path. Now let us follow the trail. I fear that it wi...
