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<s> ONE SUMMER NIGHT A FEW MONTHS AFTER MY MARRIAGE I WAS SEATED BY MY OWN HEARTH SMOKING A LAST PIPE AND NODDING OVER A NOVEL FOR MY DAY'S WORK HAD BEEN AN EXHAUSTING ONE </s>
<s> MY WIFE HAD ALREADY GONE UPSTAIRS AND THE SOUND OF THE LOCKING OF THE HALL DOOR SOME TIME BEFORE TOLD ME THAT THE SERVANTS HAD ALSO RETIRED </s>
<s> I HAD RISEN FROM MY SEAT AND WAS KNOCKING OUT THE ASHES OF MY PIPE WHEN I SUDDENLY HEARD THE CLANG OF THE BELL </s>
<s> I LOOKED AT THE CLOCK </s>
<s> IT WAS A QUARTER TO TWELVE </s>
<s> THIS COULD NOT BE A VISITOR AT SO LATE AN HOUR </s>
<s> A PATIENT EVIDENTLY AND POSSIBLY AN ALL NIGHT SITTING </s>
<s> WITH A WRY FACE I WENT OUT INTO THE HALL AND OPENED THE DOOR </s>
<s> TO MY ASTONISHMENT IT WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES WHO STOOD UPON MY STEP </s>
<s> QUOTE AH WATSON QUOTE SAID HE QUOTE I HOPED THAT I MIGHT NOT BE TOO LATE TO CATCH YOU QUOTE </s>
<s> MY DEAR FELLOW PRAY COME IN </s>
<s> YOU LOOK SURPRISED AND NO WONDER </s>
<s> RELIEVED TOO I FANCY </s>
<s> HUM </s>
<s> YOU STILL SMOKE THE ARCADIA MIXTURE OF YOUR BACHELOR DAYS THEN </s>
<s> THERE'S NO MISTAKING THAT FLUFFY ASH UPON YOUR COAT </s>
<s> IT'S EASY TO TELL THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO WEAR A UNIFORM WATSON </s>
<s> YOU'LL NEVER PASS AS A PURE BRED CIVILIAN AS LONG AS YOU KEEP THAT HABIT OF CARRYING YOUR HANDKERCHIEF IN YOUR SLEEVE </s>
<s> COULD YOU PUT ME UP TO NIGHT </s>
<s> WITH PLEASURE </s>
<s> YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU HAD BACHELOR QUARTERS FOR ONE AND I SEE THAT YOU HAVE NO GENTLEMAN VISITOR AT PRESENT </s>
<s> YOUR HAT STAND PROCLAIMS AS MUCH QUOTE </s>
<s> I SHALL BE DELIGHTED IF YOU WILL STAY </s>
<s> THANK YOU </s>
<s> I'LL FILL THE VACANT PEG THEN </s>
<s> SORRY TO SEE THAT YOU'VE HAD THE BRITISH WORKMAN IN THE HOUSE </s>
<s> HE'S A TOKEN OF EVIL </s>
<s> NOT THE DRAINS I HOPE </s>
<s> NO THE GAS </s>
<s> AH </s>
<s> HE HAS LEFT TWO NAIL MARKS FROM HIS BOOT UPON YOUR LINOLEUM JUST WHERE THE LIGHT STRIKES IT </s>
<s> NO THANK YOU I HAD SOME SUPPER AT WATERLOO BUT I'LL SMOKE A PIPE WITH YOU WITH PLEASURE QUOTE </s>
<s> I HANDED HIM MY POUCH AND HE SEATED HIMSELF OPPOSITE TO ME AND SMOKED FOR SOME TIME.IN SILENCE </s>
<s> I WAS WELL AWARE THAT NOTHING BUT BUSINESS OF IMPORTANCE WOULD HAVE BROUGHT HIM TO ME AT SUCH AN HOUR SO I WAITED PATIENTLY UNTIL HE SHOULD COME ROUND TO IT </s>
<s> I SEE THAT YOU ARE PROFESSIONALLY RATHER BUSY JUST NOW SAID HE GLANCING VERY KEENLY ACROSS AT ME </s>
<s> YES I'VE HAD A BUSY DAY I ANSWERED </s>
<s> IT MAY SEEM VERY FOOLISH IN YOUR EYES I ADDED BUT REALLY I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DEDUCED IT </s>
<s> HOLMES CHUCKLED TO HIMSELF </s>
<s> I HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWING YOUR HABITS MY DEAR WATSON SAID HE </s>
<s> WHEN YOUR ROUND IS A SHORT ONE YOU WALK AND WHEN IT IS A LONG ONE YOU USE A HANSOM </s>
<s> AS I PERCEIVE THAT YOUR BOOTS ALTHOUGH USED ARE BY NO MEANS DIRTY I CANNOT DOUBT THAT YOU ARE AT PRESENT BUSY ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY THE HANSOM QUOTE </s>
<s> EXCELLENT </s>
<s> I CRIED </s>
<s> ELEMENTARY SAID HE </s>
<s> IT IS ONE OF THOSE INSTANCES WHERE THE REASONER CAN PRODUCE AN EFFECT WHICH SEEMS REMARKABLE TO HIS NEIGHBOUR BECAUSE THE LATTER HAS MISSED THE ONE LITTLE POINT WHICH IS THE BASIS OF THE DEDUCTION </s>
<s> THE SAME MAY BE SAID MY DEAR FELLOW FOR THE EFFECT OF SOME OF THESE LITTLE SKETCHES OF YOURS WHICH IS ENTIRELY MERETRICIOUS DEPENDING AS IT DOES UPON YOUR RETAINING IN YOUR OWN HANDS SOME FACTORS IN THE PROBLEM WHICH ARE NEVER IMPARTED TO THE READER </s>
<s> NOW AT PRESENT I AM IN THE POSITION OF THESE SAME READERS FOR I HOLD IN THIS HAND SEVERAL THREADS OF ONE OF THE STRANGEST CASES WHICH EVER PERPLEXED A MAN'S BRAIN AND YET I LACK THE ONE OR TWO WHICH ARE NEEDFUL TO COMPLETE MY THEORY </s>
<s> BUT I'LL HAVE THEM WATSON I'LL HAVE THEM </s>
<s> HIS EYES KINDLED AND A SLIGHT FLUSH SPRANG INTO HIS THIN CHEEKS </s>
<s> FOR AN INSTANT THE VEIL HAD LIFTED UPON HIS KEEN INTENSE NATURE BUT FOR AN INSTANT ONLY </s>
<s> WHEN I GLANCED AGAIN HIS FACE HAD RESUMED THAT RED INDIAN COMPOSURE WHICH HAD MADE SO MANY REGARD HIM AS A MACHINE RATHER THAN A MAN </s>
<s> THE PROBLEM PRESENTS FEATURES OF INTEREST SAID HE </s>
<s> QUOTE I MAY EVEN SAY EXCEPTIONAL FEATURES OF INTEREST </s>
<s> I HAVE ALREADY LOOKED INTO THE MATTER AND HAVE COME AS I THINK WITHIN SIGHT OF MY SOLUTION </s>
<s> IF YOU COULD ACCOMPANY ME IN THAT LAST STEP YOU MIGHT BE OF CONSIDERABLE SERVICE TO ME </s>
<s> I SHOULD BE DELIGHTED </s>
<s> COULD YOU GO AS FAR AS ALDERSHOT TO MORROW </s>
<s> I HAVE NO DOUBT JACKSON WOULD TAKE MY PRACTICE </s>
<s> VERY GOOD </s>
<s> I WANT TO START BY THE ELEVEN TEN FROM WATERLOO QUOTE </s>
<s> THAT WOULD GIVE ME TIME </s>
<s> THEN IF YOU ARE NOT TOO SLEEPY I WILL GIVE YOU A SKETCH OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND OF WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE </s>
<s> I WAS SLEEPY BEFORE YOU CAME </s>
<s> I AM QUITE WAKEFUL NOW </s>
<s> I WILL COMPRESS THE STORY AS FAR AS MAY BE DONE WITHOUT OMITTING ANYTHING VITAL TO THE CASE </s>
<s> IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT YOU MAY EVEN HAVE READ SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MATTER </s>
<s> IT IS THE SUPPOSED MURDER OF COLONEL BARCLAY OF THE ROYAL MUNSTERS AT ALDERSHOT WHICH I AM INVESTIGATING QUOTE </s>
<s> I HAVE HEARD NOTHING OF IT </s>
<s> IT HAS NOT EXCITED MUCH ATTENTION YET EXCEPT LOCALLY </s>
<s> THE FACTS ARE ONLY TWO DAYS OLD </s>
<s> BRIEFLY THEY ARE THESE </s>
<s> THE ROYAL MUNSTERS IS AS YOU KNOW ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS IRISH REGIMENTS IN THE BRITISH ARMY </s>
<s> IT DID WONDERS BOTH IN THE CRIMEA AND THE MUTINY AND HAS SINCE THAT TIME DISTINGUISHED ITSELF UPON EVERY POSSIBLE OCCASION </s>
<s> IT WAS COMMANDED UP TO MONDAY NIGHT BY JAMES BARCLAY A GALLANT VETERAN WHO STARTED AS A FULL PRIVATE WAS RAISED TO COMMISSIONED RANK FOR HIS BRAVERY AT THE TIME OF THE MUTINY AND SO LIVED TO COMMAND THE REGIMENT IN WHICH HE HAD ONCE CARRIED A MUSKET </s>
<s> COLONEL BARCLAY HAD MARRIED AT THE TIME WHEN HE WAS A SERGEANT AND HIS WIFE WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS MISS NANCY DEVOY WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A FORMER COLOUR SERGEANT IN THE SAME CORPS </s>
<s> THERE WAS THEREFORE AS CAN BE IMAGINED SOME LITTLE SOCIAL FRICTION WHEN THE YOUNG COUPLE FOR THEY WERE STILL YOUNG FOUND THEMSELVES IN THEIR NEW SURROUNDINGS </s>
<s> THEY APPEAR HOWEVER TO HAVE QUICKLY ADAPTED THEMSELVES AND MRS. BARCLAY HAS ALWAYS I UNDERSTAND BEEN AS POPULAR WITH THE LADIES OF THE REGIMENT AS HER HUSBAND WAS WITH HIS BROTHER OFFICERS </s>
<s> I MAY ADD THAT SHE WAS A WOMAN OF GREAT BEAUTY AND THAT EVEN NOW WHEN SHE HAS BEEN MARRIED FOR UPWARD OF THIRTY YEARS SHE IS STILL OF A STRIKING AND QUEENLY APPEARANCE </s>
<s> COLONEL BARCLAY'S FAMILY LIFE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A UNIFORMLY HAPPY ONE </s>
<s> MAJOR MURPHY TO WHOM I OWE MOST OF MY FACTS ASSURES ME THAT HE HAS NEVER HEARD OF ANY MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PAIR </s>
<s> ON THE WHOLE HE THINKS THAT BARCLAY'S DEVOTION TO HIS WIFE WAS GREATER THAN HIS WIFE'S TO BARCLAY </s>
<s> HE WAS ACUTELY UNEASY IF HE WERE ABSENT FROM HER FOR A DAY </s>
<s> SHE ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH DEVOTED AND FAITHFUL WAS LESS OBTRUSIVELY AFFECTIONATE </s>
<s> BUT THEY WERE REGARDED IN THE REGIMENT AS THE VERY MODEL OF A MIDDLE AGED COUPLE </s>
<s> THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THE TRAGEDY WHICH WAS TO FOLLOW </s>
<s> QUOTE COLONEL BARCLAY HIMSELF SEEMS TO HAVE HAD SOME SINGULAR TRAITS IN HIS CHARACTER </s>
<s> HE WAS A DASHING JOVIAL OLD SOLDIER IN HIS USUAL MOOD BUT THERE WERE OCCASIONS ON WHICH HE SEEMED TO SHOW HIMSELF CAPABLE OF CONSIDERABLE VIOLENCE AND VINDICTIVENESS </s>
<s> THIS SIDE OF HIS NATURE HOWEVER APPEARS NEVER TO HAVE BEEN TURNED TOWARDS HIS WIFE </s>
<s> ANOTHER FACT WHICH HAD STRUCK MAJOR MURPHY AND THREE OUT OF FIVE OF THE OTHER OFFICERS WITH WHOM I CONVERSED WAS THE SINGULAR SORT OF DEPRESSION WHICH CAME UPON HIM AT TIMES </s>
<s> AS THE MAJOR EXPRESSED IT THE SMILE HAS OFTEN BEEN STRUCK FROM HIS MOUTH AS IF BY SOME INVISIBLE HAND WHEN HE HAS BEEN JOINING IN THE GAIETIES AND CHAFF OF THE MESS TABLE </s>
<s> FOR DAYS ON END WHEN THE MOOD WAS ON HIM HE HAS BEEN SUNK IN THE DEEPEST GLOOM </s>
<s> THIS AND A CERTAIN TINGE OF SUPERSTITION WERE THE ONLY UNUSUAL TRAITS IN HIS CHARACTER WHICH HIS BROTHER OFFICERS HAD OBSERVED </s>
<s> THE LATTER PECULIARITY TOOK THE FORM OF A DISLIKE TO BEING LEFT ALONE ESPECIALLY AFTER DARK </s>
<s> THIS PUERILE FEATURE IN A NATURE WHICH WAS CONSPICUOUSLY MANLY HAD OFTEN GIVEN RISE TO COMMENT AND CONJECTURE </s>
<s> THE FIRST BATTALION OF THE ROYAL MUNSTERS WHICH IS THE OLD ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH HAS BEEN STATIONED AT ALDERSHOT FOR SOME YEARS </s>
<s> THE MARRIED OFFICERS LIVE OUT OF BARRACKS AND THE COLONEL HAS DURING ALL THIS TIME OCCUPIED A VILLA CALLED LACHINE ABOUT HALF A MILE FROM THE NORTH CAMP </s>
<s> THE HOUSE STANDS IN ITS OWN GROUNDS BUT THE WEST SIDE OF IT IS NOT MORE THAN THIRTY YARDS FROM THE HIGHROAD </s>
<s> A COACHMAN AND TWO MAIDS FORM THE STAFF OF SERVANTS </s>
<s> THESE WITH THEIR MASTER AND MISTRESS WERE THE SOLE OCCUPANTS OF LACHINE FOR THE BARCLAYS HAD NO CHILDREN NOR WAS IT USUAL FOR THEM TO HAVE RESIDENT VISITORS </s>
<s> NOW FOR THE EVENTS AT LACHINE BETWEEN NINE AND TEN ON THE EVENING OF LAST MONDAY </s>
<s> MRS. BARCLAY WAS IT APPEARS A MEMBER OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND HAD INTERESTED HERSELF VERY MUCH IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GUILD OF SAINT GEORGE WHICH WAS FORMED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WATT STREET CHAPEL FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPLYING THE POOR WITH CAST OFF CLOTHING </s>
<s> A MEETING OF THE GUILD HAD BEEN HELD THAT EVENING AT EIGHT AND MRS. BARCLAY HAD HURRIED OVER HER DINNER IN ORDER TO BE PRESENT AT IT </s>
<s> WHEN LEAVING THE HOUSE SHE WAS HEARD BY THE COACHMAN TO MAKE SOME COMMONPLACE REMARK TO HER HUSBAND AND TO ASSURE HIM THAT SHE WOULD BE BACK BEFORE VERY LONG </s>
<s> SHE THEN CALLED FOR MISS MORRISON A YOUNG LADY WHO LIVES IN THE NEXT VILLA AND THE TWO WENT OFF TOGETHER TO THEIR MEETING </s>
<s> IT LASTED FORTY MINUTES AND AT A QUARTER PAST NINE MRS. BARCLAY RETURNED HOME HAVING LEFT MISS MORRISON AT HER DOOR AS SHE PASSED </s>
<s> THERE IS A ROOM WHICH IS USED AS A MORNING ROOM AT LACHINE </s>
<s> THIS FACES THE ROAD AND OPENS BY A LARGE GLASS FOLDING DOOR ON TO THE LAWN </s>
<s> THE LAWN IS THIRTY YARDS ACROSS AND IS ONLY DIVIDED FROM THE HIGHWAY BY A LOW WALL WITH AN IRON RAIL ABOVE IT </s>
<s> IT WAS INTO THIS ROOM THAT MRS. BARCLAY WENT UPON HER RETURN </s>
<s> THE BLINDS WERE NOT DOWN FOR THE ROOM WAS SELDOM USED IN THE EVENING BUT MRS. BARCLAY HERSELF LIT THE LAMP AND THEN RANG THE BELL ASKING JANE STEWART THE HOUSEMAID TO BRING HER A CUP OF TEA WHICH WAS QUITE CONTRARY TO HER USUAL HABITS </s>
<s> THE COLONEL HAD BEEN SITTING IN THE DINING ROOM BUT HEARING THAT HIS WIFE HAD RETURNED HE JOINED HER IN THE MORNING ROOM </s>
<s> THE COACHMAN SAW HIM CROSS THE HALL AND ENTER IT </s>
<s> HE WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN ALIVE </s>
<s> THE TEA WHICH HAD BEEN ORDERED WAS BROUGHT UP AT THE END OF TEN MINUTES BUT THE MAID AS SHE APPROACHED THE DOOR WAS SURPRISED TO HEAR THE VOICES OF HER MASTER AND MISTRESS IN FURIOUS ALTERCATION </s>
<s> SHE KNOCKED WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY ANSWER AND EVEN TURNED THE HANDLE BUT ONLY TO FIND THAT THE DOOR WAS LOCKED UPON THE INSIDE </s>
<s> NATURALLY ENOUGH SHE RAN DOWN TO TELL THE COOK AND THE TWO WOMEN WITH THE COACHMAN CAME UP INTO THE HALL AND LISTENED TO THE DISPUTE WHICH WAS STILL RAGING </s>
<s> THEY ALL AGREED THAT ONLY TWO VOICES WERE TO BE HEARD THOSE OF BARCLAY AND OF HIS WIFE </s>
<s> BARCLAY'S REMARKS WERE SUBDUED AND ABRUPT SO THAT NONE OF THEM WERE AUDIBLE TO THE LISTENERS </s>
<s> THE LADY'S ON THE OTHER HAND WERE MOST BITTER AND WHEN SHE RAISED HER VOICE COULD BE PLAINLY HEARD </s>
<s> YOU COWARD SHE REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN </s>
<s> WHAT CAN BE DONE NOW </s>
<s> WHAT CAN BE DONE NOW </s>
<s> GIVE ME BACK MY LIFE </s>
<s> I WILL NEVER SO MUCH AS BREATHE THE SAME AIR WITH YOU AGAIN </s>
<s> YOU COWARD </s>
<s> YOU COWARD </s>
<s> THOSE WERE SCRAPS OF HER CONVERSATION ENDING IN A SUDDEN DREADFUL CRY IN THE MAN'S VOICE WITH A CRASH AND A PIERCING SCREAM FROM THE WOMAN </s>
<s> CONVINCED THAT SOME TRAGEDY HAD OCCURRED THE COACHMAN RUSHED TO THE DOOR AND STROVE TO FORCE IT WHILE SCREAM AFTER SCREAM ISSUED FROM WITHIN </s>
<s> HE WAS UNABLE HOWEVER TO MAKE HIS WAY IN AND THE MAIDS WERE TOO DISTRACTED WITH FEAR TO BE OF ANY ASSISTANCE TO HIM </s>
<s> A SUDDEN THOUGHT STRUCK HIM HOWEVER AND HE RAN THROUGH THE HALL DOOR AND ROUND TO THE LAWN UPON WHICH THE LONG FRENCH WINDOWS OPEN </s>
<s> ONE SIDE OF THE WINDOW WAS OPEN WHICH I UNDERSTAND WAS QUITE USUAL IN THE SUMMERTIME AND HE PASSED WITHOUT DIFFICULTY INTO THE ROOM </s>
<s> HIS MISTRESS HAD CEASED TO SCREAM AND WAS STRETCHED INSENSIBLE UPON A COUCH WHILE WITH HIS FEET TILTED OVER THE SIDE OF AN ARMCHAIR AND HIS HEAD UPON THE GROUND NEAR THE CORNER OF THE FENDER WAS IYING THE UNFORTUNATE SOLDIER STONE DEAD IN A POOL OF HIS OWN BLOOD </s>
<s> QUOTE NATURALLY THE COACHMAN'S FIRST THOUGHT ON FINDING THAT HE COULD DO NOTHING FOR HIS MASTER WAS TO OPEN THE DOOR </s>
<s> BUT HERE AN UNEXPECTED AND SINGULAR DIFFICULTY PRESENTED ITSELF </s>