Half an hour later we were seated, all four, in the small sitting-room of Signora Lucca, listening to her remarkable narrative of those sinister events, the ending of which we had chanced to witness. She spoke in rapid and fluent but very unconventio...
I do not understand how you know these things, she said. Giuseppe Gorgianohow did he She paused, and then suddenly her face lit up with pride and delight. Now I see it! My Gennaro! My splendid, beautiful Gennaro, who has guarded me safe from all harm...
Perhaps not. That is why I thought it best to summon this lady to your aid. We all turned round at the words. There, framed in the doorway, was a tall and beautiful womanthe mysterious lodger of Bloomsbury. Slowly she advanced, her face pale and draw...
In the middle of the floor of the empty room was huddled the figure of an enormous man, his clean-shaven, swarthy face grotesquely horrible in its contortion and his head encircled by a ghastly crimson halo of blood, lying in a broad wet circle upon...
Why do you think so? Well, it figures out that way, does it not? Here he is, sending out messages to an accomplicethere are several of his gang in London. Then suddenly, just as by your own account he was telling them that there was danger, he broke...
Who is he? Well, well, we score over you for once, Mr. Holmes. You must give us best this time. He struck his stick sharply upon the ground, on which a cabman, his whip in his hand, sauntered over from a four-wheeler which stood on the far side of th...
Shall I go for the police? We must define the situation a little more clearly. It may bear some more innocent interpretation. Come, Watson, let us go across ourselves and see what we can make of it. Chapter II. Part Two As we walked rapidly down Howe...
A cipher message, Holmes. My companion gave a sudden chuckle of comprehension. And not a very obscure cipher, Watson, said he. Why, of course, it is Italian! The A means that it is addressed to a woman. Beware! Beware! Beware! How's that, Watson? I b...
Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it? What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee? For my education, Holmes. Education never ends, Wa...
I will call again in the evening, said he to the expectant landlady. I think, Watson, we can discuss this business better in our own quarters. My surmise, as you saw, proved to be correct, said he, speaking from the depths of his easy-chair. There ha...
