📄 lady_frances_carfax.txt
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<s> I PUT YOU ON YOUR HONOUR THAT YOU WILL TAKE NO STEP WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE AND CONSENT </s><s> FOR TWO DAYS THE HON </s><s> PHILIP GREEN HE WAS I MAY MENTION THE SON OF THE FAMOUS ADMIRAL OF THAT NAME WHO COMMANDED THE SEA OF AZOF FLEET IN THE CRIMEAN WAR BROUGHT US NO NEWS </s><s> ON THE EVENING OF THE THIRD HE RUSHED INTO OUR SITTING ROOM PALE TREMBLING WITH EVERY MUSCLE OF HIS POWERFUL FRAME QUIVERING WITH EXCITEMENT </s><s> QUOTE WE HAVE HIM </s><s> WE HAVE HIM HE CRIED </s><s> HE WAS INCOHERENT IN HIS AGITATION </s><s> HOLMES SOOTHED HIM WITH A FEW WORDS AND THRUST HIM INTO AN ARMCHAIR </s><s> COME NOW GIVE US THE ORDER OF EVENTS SAID HE </s><s> SHE CAME ONLY AN HOUR AGO </s><s> IT WAS THE WIFE THIS TIME BUT THE PENDANT SHE BROUGHT WAS THE FELLOW OF THE OTHER </s><s> SHE IS A TALL PALE WOMAN WITH FERRET EYES </s><s> THAT IS THE LADY SAID HOLMES </s><s> QUOTE SHE LEFT THE OFFICE AND I FOLLOWED HER </s><s> SHE WALKED UP THE KENNINGTON ROAD AND I KEPT BEHIND HER </s><s> PRESENTLY SHE WENT INTO A SHOP </s><s> MR. HOLMES IT WAS AN UNDERTAKER'S </s><s> MY COMPANION STARTED </s><s> WELL HE ASKED IN THAT VIBRANT VOICE WHICH TOLD OF THE FIERY SOUL BEHIND THE COLD GRAY FACE </s><s> SHE WAS TALKING TO THE WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER </s><s> I ENTERED AS WELL </s><s> IT IS LATE I HEARD HER SAY OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT </s><s> THE WOMAN WAS EXCUSING HERSELF </s><s> IT SHOULD BE THERE BEFORE NOW SHE ANSWERED </s><s> IT TOOK LONGER BEING OUT OF THE ORDINARY </s><s> THEY BOTH STOPPED AND LOOKED AT ME SO I ASKED SOME QUESTION AND THEN LEFT THE SHOP </s><s> YOU DID EXCELLENTLY WELL </s><s> WHAT HAPPENED NEXT QUOTE </s><s> THE WOMAN CAME OUT BUT I HAD HID MYSELF IN A DOORWAY </s><s> HER SUSPICIONS HAD BEEN AROUSED I THINK FOR SHE LOOKED ROUND HER </s><s> THEN SHE CALLED A CAB AND GOT IN </s><s> I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET ANOTHER AND SO TO FOLLOW HER </s><s> SHE GOT DOWN AT LAST AT NUMBER THIRTY SIX POULTNEY SQUARE BRIXTON </s><s> I DROVE PAST LEFT MY CAB AT THE CORNER OF THE SQUARE AND WATCHED THE HOUSE </s><s> DID YOU SEE ANYONE </s><s> THE WINDOWS WERE ALL IN DARKNESS SAVE ONE ON THE LOWER FLOOR </s><s> THE BLIND WAS DOWN AND I COULD NOT SEE IN </s><s> I WAS STANDING THERE WONDERING WHAT I SHOULD DO NEXT WHEN A COVERED VAN DROVE UP WITH TWO MEN IN IT </s><s> THEY DESCENDED TOOK SOMETHING OUT OF THE VAN AND CARRIED IT UP THE STEPS TO THE HALL DOOR </s><s> MR. HOLMES IT WAS A COFFIN </s><s> QUOTE AH QUOTE </s><s> FOR AN INSTANT I WAS ON THE POINT OF RUSHING IN </s><s> THE DOOR HAD BEEN OPENED TO ADMIT THE MEN AND THEIR BURDEN </s><s> IT WAS THE WOMAN WHO HAD OPENED IT </s><s> BUT AS I STOOD THERE SHE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF ME AND I THINK THAT SHE RECOGNIZED ME </s><s> I SAW HER START AND SHE HASTILY CLOSED THE DOOR </s><s> I REMEMBERED MY PROMISE TO YOU AND HERE I AM </s><s> YOU HAVE DONE EXCELLENT WORK SAID HOLMES SCRIBBLING A FEW WORDS UPON A HALF SHEET OF PAPER </s><s> WE CAN DO NOTHING LEGAL WITHOUT A WARRANT AND YOU CAN SERVE THE CAUSE BEST BY TAKING THIS NOTE DOWN TO THE AUTHORITIES AND GETTING ONE </s><s> THERE MAY BE SOME DIFFICULTY BUT I SHOULD THINK THAT THE SALE OF THE JEWELLERY SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT </s><s> LESTRADE WILL SEE TO ALL DETAILS </s><s> QUOTE BUT THEY MAY MURDER HER IN THE MEANWHILE </s><s> WHAT COULD THE COFFIN MEAN AND FOR WHOM COULD IT BE BUT FOR HER </s><s> WE WILL DO ALL THAT CAN BE DONE MR. GREEN </s><s> NOT A MOMENT WILL BE LOST </s><s> LEAVE IT IN OUR HANDS </s><s> NOW WATSON HE ADDED AS OUR CLIENT HURRIED AWAY HE WILL SET THE REGULAR FORCES ON THE MOVE </s><s> WE ARE AS USUAL THE IRREGULARS AND WE MUST TAKE OUR OWN LINE OF ACTION </s><s> THE SITUATION STRIKES ME AS SO DESPERATE THAT THE MOST EXTREME MEASURES ARE JUSTIFIED </s><s> NOT A MOMENT IS TO BE LOST IN GETTING TO POULTNEY SQUARE </s><s> LET US TRY TO RECONSTRUCT THE SITUATION SAID HE AS WE DROVE SWIFTLY PAST THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AND OVER WESTMINSTER BRIDGE </s><s> THESE VILLAINS HAVE COAXED THIS UNHAPPY LADY TO LONDON AFTER FIRST ALIENATING HER FROM HER FAITHFUL MAID </s><s> IF SHE HAS WRITTEN ANY LETTERS THEY HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED </s><s> THROUGH SOME CONFEDERATE THEY HAVE ENGAGED A FURNISHED HOUSE </s><s> ONCE INSIDE IT THEY HAVE MADE HER A PRISONER AND THEY HAVE BECOME POSSESSED OF THE VALUABLE JEWELLERY WHICH HAS BEEN THEIR OBJECT FROM THE FIRST </s><s> ALREADY THEY HAVE BEGUN TO SELL PART OF IT WHICH SEEMS SAFE ENOUGH TO THEM SINCE THEY HAVE NO REASON TO THINK THAT ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN THE LADY'S FATE </s><s> WHEN SHE IS RELEASED SHE WILL OF COURSE DENOUNCE THEM </s><s> THEREFORE SHE MUST NOT BE RELEASED </s><s> BUT THEY CANNOT KEEP HER UNDER LOCK AND KEY FOREVER </s><s> SO MURDER IS THEIR ONLY SOLUTION QUOTE </s><s> THAT SEEMS VERY CLEAR </s><s> NOW WE WILL TAKE ANOTHER LINE OF REASONING </s><s> WHEN YOU FOLLOW TWO SEPARATE CHAINS OF THOUGHT WATSON YOU WILL FIND SOME POINT OF INTERSECTION WHICH SHOULD APPROXIMATE TO THE TRUTH </s><s> WE WILL START NOW NOT FROM THE LADY BUT FROM THE COFFIN AND ARGUE BACKWARD </s><s> THAT INCIDENT PROVES I FEAR BEYOND ALL DOUBT THAT THE LADY IS DEAD </s><s> IT POINTS ALSO TO AN ORTHODOX BURIAL WITH PROPER ACCOMPANIMENT OF MEDICAL CERTIFICATE AND OFFICIAL SANCTION </s><s> HAD THE LADY BEEN OBVIOUSLY MURDERED THEY WOULD HAVE BURIED HER IN A HOLE IN THE BACK GARDEN </s><s> BUT HERE ALL IS OPEN AND REGULAR </s><s> WHAT DOES THAT MEAN </s><s> SURELY THAT THEY HAVE DONE HER TO DEATH IN SOME WAY WHICH HAS DECEIVED THE DOCTOR AND SIMULATED A NATURAL END POISONING PERHAPS </s><s> AND YET HOW STRANGE THAT THEY SHOULD EVER LET A DOCTOR APPROACH HER UNLESS HE WERE A CONFEDERATE WHICH IS HARDLY A CREDIBLE PROPOSITION </s><s> COULD THEY HAVE FORGED A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE </s><s> DANGEROUS WATSON VERY DANGEROUS </s><s> NO I HARDLY SEE THEM DOING THAT </s><s> PULL UP CABBY </s><s> THIS IS EVIDENTLY THE UNDERTAKER'S FOR WE HAVE JUST PASSED THE PAWNBROKER'S </s><s> WOULD YOU GO IN WATSON </s><s> YOUR APPEARANCE INSPIRES CONFIDENCE </s><s> ASK WHAT HOUR THE POULTNEY SQUARE FUNERAL TAKES PLACE TO MORROW QUOTE </s><s> THE WOMAN IN THE SHOP ANSWERED ME WITHOUT HESITATION THAT IT WAS TO BE AT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING </s><s> YOU SEE WATSON NO MYSTERY EVERYTHING ABOVEBOARD </s><s> IN SOME WAY THE LEGAL FORMS HAVE UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN COMPLIED WITH AND THEY THINK THAT THEY HAVE LITTLE TO FEAR </s><s> WELL THERE'S NOTHING FOR IT NOW BUT A DIRECT FRONTAL ATTACK </s><s> ARE YOU ARMED </s><s> MY STICK </s><s> WELL WELL WE SHALL BE STRONG ENOUGH </s><s> THRICE IS HE ARMED WHO HATH HIS QUARREL JUST </s><s> WE SIMPLY CAN'T AFFORD TO WAIT FOR THE POLICE OR TO KEEP WITHIN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE LAW </s><s> YOU CAN DRIVE OFF CABBY </s><s> NOW WATSON WE'LL JUST TAKE OUR LUCK TOGETHER AS WE HAVE OCCASIONALLY DONE IN THE PAST </s><s> HE HAD RUNG LOUDLY AT THE DOOR OF A GREAT DARK HOUSE IN THE CENTRE OF POULTNEY SQUARE </s><s> IT WAS OPENED IMMEDIATELY AND THE FIGURE OF A TALL WOMAN WAS OUTLINED AGAINST THE DIM LIT HALL </s><s> QUOTE WELL WHAT DO YOU WANT QUOTE SHE ASKED SHARPLY PEERING AT US THROUGH THE DARKNESS </s><s> I WANT TO SPEAK TO DOCTOR SHLESSINGER SAID HOLMES </s><s> THERE IS NO SUCH PERSON HERE SHE ANSWERED AND TRIED TO CLOSE THE DOOR BUT HOLMES HAD JAMMED IT WITH HIS FOOT </s><s> WELL I WANT TO SEE THE MAN WHO LIVES HERE WHATEVER HE MAY CALL HIMSELF SAID HOLMES FIRMLY </s><s> SHE HESITATED </s><s> THEN SHE THREW OPEN THE DOOR </s><s> WELL COME IN SAID SHE </s><s> MY HUSBAND IS NOT AFRAID TO FACE ANY MAN IN THE WORLD </s><s> SHE CLOSED THE DOOR BEHIND US AND SHOWED US INTO A SITTING ROOM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HALL TURNING UP THE GAS AS SHE LEFT US </s><s> QUOTE MR. PETERS WILL BE WITH YOU IN AN INSTANT QUOTE SHE SAID </s><s> HER WORDS WERE LITERALLY TRUE FOR WE HAD HARDLY TIME TO LOOK AROUND THE DUSTY AND MOTH EATEN APARTMENT IN WHICH WE FOUND OURSELVES BEFORE THE DOOR OPENED AND A BIG CLEAN SHAVEN BALDHEADED MAN STEPPED LIGHTLY INTO THE ROOM </s><s> HE HAD A LARGE RED FACE WITH PENDULOUS CHEEKS AND A GENERAL AIR OF SUPERFICIAL BENEVOLENCE WHICH WAS MARRED BY A CRUEL VICIOUS MOUTH </s><s> THERE IS SURELY SOME MISTAKE HERE GENTLEMEN HE SAID IN AN UNCTUOUS MAKE EVERYTHING EASY VOICE </s><s> I FANCY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED </s><s> POSSIBLY IF YOU TRIED FARTHER DOWN THE STREET </s><s> THAT WILL DO WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE SAID MY COMPANION FIRMLY </s><s> YOU ARE HENRY PETERS OF ADELAIDE LATE THE REVEREND DOCTOR SHLESSINGER OF BADEN AND SOUTH AMERICA </s><s> I AM AS SURE OF THAT AS THAT MY OWN NAME IS SHERLOCK HOLMES QUOTE </s><s> PETERS AS I WILL NOW CALL HIM STARTED AND STARED HARD AT HIS FORMIDABLE PURSUER </s><s> I GUESS YOUR NAME DOES NOT FRIGHTEN ME MR. HOLMES SAID HE COOLLY </s><s> WHEN A MAN'S CONSCIENCE IS EASY YOU CAN'T RATTLE HIM </s><s> WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS IN MY HOUSE </s><s> I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WITH THE LADY FRANCES CARFAX WHOM YOU BROUGHT AWAY WITH YOU FROM BADEN </s><s> I'D BE VERY GLAD IF YOU COULD TELL ME WHERE THAT LADY MAY BE PETERS ANSWERED COOLLY </s><s> QUOTE I'VE A BILL AGAINST HER FOR NEARLY A HUNDRED POUNDS AND NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT BUT A COUPLE OF TRUMPERY PENDANTS THAT THE DEALER WOULD HARDLY LOOK AT </s><s> SHE ATTACHED HERSELF TO MRS. PETERS AND ME AT BADEN IT IS A FACT THAT I WAS USING ANOTHER NAME AT THE TIME AND SHE STUCK ON TO US UNTIL WE CAME TO LONDON </s><s> I PAID HER BILL AND HER TICKET </s><s> ONCE IN LONDON SHE GAVE US THE SLIP AND AS I SAY LEFT THESE OUT OF DATE JEWELS TO PAY HER BILLS </s><s> YOU FIND HER MR. HOLMES AND I'M YOUR DEBTOR </s><s> I MEAN TO FIND HER SAID SHERLOCK HOLMES </s><s> I'M GOING THROUGH THIS HOUSE TILL I DO FIND HER </s><s> WHERE IS YOUR WARRANT </s><s> HOLMES HALF DREW A REVOLVER FROM HIS POCKET </s><s> THIS WILL HAVE TO SERVE TILL A BETTER ONE COMES </s><s> QUOTE WHY YOU ARE A COMMON BURGLAR QUOTE </s><s> SO YOU MIGHT DESCRIBE ME SAID HOLMES CHEERFULLY </s><s> MY COMPANION IS ALSO A DANGEROUS RUFFIAN </s><s> AND TOGETHER WE ARE GOING THROUGH YOUR HOUSE </s><s> OUR OPPONENT OPENED THE DOOR </s><s> FETCH A POLICEMAN ANNIE SAID HE </s><s> THERE WAS A WHISK OF FEMININE SKIRTS DOWN THE PASSAGE AND THE HALL DOOR WAS OPENED AND SHUT </s><s> OUR TIME IS LIMITED WATSON SAID HOLMES </s><s> QUOTE IF YOU TRY TO STOP US PETERS YOU WILL MOST CERTAINLY GET HURT </s><s> WHERE IS THAT COFFIN WHICH WAS BROUGHT INTO YOUR HOUSE </s><s> WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH THE COFFIN </s><s> IT IS IN USE </s><s> THERE IS A BODY IN IT </s><s> I MUST SEE THAT BODY </s><s> NEVER WITH MY CONSENT </s>
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