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<s> WELL SIR WHAT OF THAT </s><s> DON'T YOU SEE ANY BEARING UPON THE CASE </s><s> WELL WELL </s><s> I DON'T INSIST UPON IT </s><s> NO DOUBT I AM WRONG </s><s> AND YET IT SEEMS TO ME TO BE SUGGESTIVE </s><s> COME WITH ME AND INTRODUCE ME </s><s> WE PASSED DOWN THE PASSAGE WHICH WAS OF THE SAME LENGTH AS THAT WHICH LED TO THE GARDEN </s><s> AT THE END WAS A SHORT FLIGHT OF STEPS ENDING IN A DOOR </s><s> OUR GUIDE KNOCKED AND THEN USHERED US INTO THE PROFESSOR'S BEDROOM </s><s> IT WAS A VERY LARGE CHAMBER LINED WITH INNUMERABLE VOLUMES WHICH HAD OVERFLOWED FROM THE SHELVES AND LAY IN PILES IN THE CORNERS OR WERE STACKED ALL ROUND AT THE BASE OF THE CASES </s><s> THE BED WAS IN THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM AND IN IT PROPPED UP WITH PILLOWS WAS THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE </s><s> I HAVE SELDOM SEEN A MORE REMARKABLE LOOKING PERSON </s><s> IT WAS A GAUNT AQUILINE FACE WHICH WAS TURNED TOWARDS US WITH PIERCING DARK EYES WHICH LURKED IN DEEP HOLLOWS UNDER OVERHUNG AND TUFTED BROWS </s><s> HIS HAIR AND BEARD WERE WHITE SAVE THAT THE LATTER WAS CURIOUSLY STAINED WITH YELLOW AROUND HIS MOUTH </s><s> A CIGARETTE GLOWED AMID THE TANGLE OF WHITE HAIR AND THE AIR OF THE ROOM WAS FETID WITH STALE TOBACCO SMOKE </s><s> AS HE HELD OUT HIS HAND TO HOLMES I PERCEIVED THAT IT WAS ALSO STAINED WITH YELLOW NICOTINE </s><s> A SMOKER MR. HOLMES SAID HE SPEAKING IN WELL CHOSEN ENGLISH WITH A CURIOUS LITTLE MINCING ACCENT </s><s> PRAY TAKE A CIGARETTE </s><s> AND YOU SIR </s><s> I CAN RECOMMEND THEM FOR I HAVE THEM ESPECIALLY PREPARED BY LONIDES OF ALEXANDRIA </s><s> HE SENDS ME A THOUSAND AT A TIME AND I GRIEVE TO SAY THAT I HAVE TO ARRANGE FOR A FRESH SUPRLY EVERY FORTNIGHT </s><s> BAD SIR VERY BAD BUT AN OLD MAN HAS FEW PLEASURES </s><s> TOBACCO AND MY WORK THAT IS ALL THAT IS LEFT TO ME QUOTE </s><s> HOLMES HAD LIT A CIGARETTE AND WAS SHOOTING LITTLE DARTING GLANCES ALL OVER THE ROOM </s><s> TOBACCO AND MY WORK BUT NOW ONLY TOBACCO THE OLD MAN EXCLAIMED </s><s> ALAS WHAT A FATAL INTERRUPTION </s><s> WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN SUCH A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE </s><s> SO ESTIMABLE A YOUNG MAN </s><s> I ASSURE YOU THAT AFTER A FEW MONTHS' TRAINING HE WAS AN ADMIRABLE ASSISTANT </s><s> WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE MATTER MR. HOLMES </s><s> I HAVE NOT YET MADE UP MY MIND </s><s> I SHALL INDEED BE INDEBTED TO YOU IF YOU CAN THROW A LIGHT WHERE ALL IS SO DARK TO US </s><s> TO A POOR BOOKWORM AND INVALID LIKE MYSELF SUCH A BLOW IS PARALYZING </s><s> I SEEM TO HAVE LOST THE FACULTY OF THOUGHT </s><s> BUT YOU ARE A MAN OF ACTION YOU ARE A MAN OF AFFAIRS </s><s> IT IS PART OF THE EVERYDAY ROUTINE OF YOUR LIFE </s><s> YOU CAN PRESERVE YOUR BALANCE IN EVERY EMERGENCY </s><s> WE ARE FORTUNATE INDEED IN HAVING YOU AT OUR SIDE QUOTE </s><s> HOLMES WAS PACING UP AND DOWN ONE SIDE OF THE ROOM WHILST THE OLD PROFESSOR WAS TALKING </s><s> I OBSERVED THAT HE WAS SMOKING WITH EXTRAORDINARY RAPIDITY </s><s> IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE SHARED OUR HOST'S LIKING FOR THE FRESH ALEXANDRIAN CIGARETTES </s><s> YES SIR IT IS A CRUSHING BLOW SAID THE OLD MAN </s><s> THAT IS MY MAGNUM OPUS THE PILE OF PAPERS ON THE SIDE TABLE YONDER </s><s> IT IS MY ANALYSIS OF THE DOCUMENTS FOUND IN THE COPTIC MONASTERIES OF SYRIA AND EGYPT A WORK WHICH WILL CUT DEEP AT THE VERY FOUNDATION OF REVEALED RELIGION </s><s> WITH MY ENFEEBLED HEALTH I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER I SHALL EVER BE ABLE TO COMPLETE IT NOW THAT MY ASSISTANT HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM ME </s><s> DEAR ME </s><s> MR. HOLMES WHY YOU ARE EVEN A QUICKER SMOKER THAN I AM MYSELF </s><s> HOLMES SMILED </s><s> I AM A CONNOISSEUR SAID HE TAKING ANOTHER CIGARETTE FROM THE BOX HIS FOURTH AND LIGHTING IT FROM THE STUB OF THAT WHICH HE HAD FINISHED </s><s> I WILL NOT TROUBLE YOU WITH ANY LENGTHY CROSSEXAMINATION PROFESSOR CORAM SINCE I GATHER THAT YOU WERE IN BED AT THE TIME OF THE CRIME AND COULD KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT </s><s> I WOULD ONLY ASK THIS WHAT DO YOU IMAGINE THAT THIS POOR FELLOW MEANT BY HIS LAST WORDS THE PROFESSOR IT WAS SHE QUOTE </s><s> THE PROFESSOR SHOOK HIS HEAD </s><s> SUSAN IS A COUNTRY GIRL SAID HE AND YOU KNOW THE INCREDIBLE STUPIDITY OF THAT CLASS </s><s> I FANCY THAT THE POOR FELLOW MURMURED SOME INCOHERENT DELIRIOUS WORDS AND THAT SHE TWISTED THEM INTO THIS MEANINGLESS MESSAGE </s><s> I SEE </s><s> YOU HAVE NO EXPLANATION YOURSELF OF THE TRAGEDY </s><s> POSSIBLY AN ACCIDENT POSSIBLY I ONLY BREATHE IT AMONG OURSELVES A SUICIDE </s><s> YOUNG MEN HAVE THEIR HIDDEN TROUBLES SOME AFFAIR OF THE HEART PERHAPS WHICH WE HAVE NEVER KNOWN </s><s> IT IS A MORE PROBABLE SUPPOSITION THAN MURDER QUOTE </s><s> BUT THE EYEGLASSES </s><s> AH </s><s> I AM ONLY A STUDENT A MAN OF DREAMS </s><s> I CANNOT EXPLAIN THE PRACTICAL THINGS OF LIFE </s><s> BUT STILL WE ARE AWARE MY FRIEND THAT LOVE GAGES MAY TAKE STRANGE SHAPES </s><s> BY ALL MEANS TAKE ANOTHER CIGARETTE </s><s> IT IS A PLEASURE TO SEE ANYONE APPRECIATE THEM SO </s><s> A FAN A GLOVE GLASSES WHO KNOWS WHAT ARTICLE MAY BE CARRIED AS A TOKEN OR TREASURED WHEN A MAN PUTS AN END TO HIS LIFE </s><s> THIS GENTLEMAN SPEAKS OF FOOTSTEPS IN THE GRASS BUT AFTER ALL IT IS EASY TO BE MISTAKEN ON SUCH A POINT </s><s> AS TO THE KNIFE IT MIGHT WELL BE THROWN FAR FROM THE UNFORTUNATE MAN AS HE FELL </s><s> IT IS POSSIBLE THAT I SPEAK AS A CHILD BUT TO ME IT SEEMS THAT WILLOUGHBY SMITH HAS MET HIS FATE BY HIS OWN HAND </s><s> HOLMES SEEMED STRUCK BY THE THEORY THUS PUT FORWARD AND H. C. CONTINUED TO WALK UP AND DOWN FOR SOME TIME LOST IN THOUGHT AND CONSUMING CIGARETTE AFTER CIGARETTE </s><s> TELL ME PROFESSOR CORAM HE SAID AT LAST WHAT IS IN THAT CUPBOARD IN THE BUREAU </s><s> NOTHING THAT WOULD HELP A THIEF </s><s> FAMILY PAPERS LETTERS FROM MY POOR WIFE DIPLOMAS OF UNIVERSITIES WHICH HAVE DONE ME HONOUR </s><s> HERE IS THE KEY </s><s> YOU CAN LOOK FOR YOURSELF QUOTE </s><s> HOLMES PICKED UP THE KEY AND LOOKED AT IT FOR AN INSTANT THEN HE HANDED IT BACK </s><s> NO I HARDLY THINK THAT IT WOULD HELP ME SAID HE </s><s> I SHOULD PREFER TO GO QUIETLY DOWN TO YOUR GARDEN AND TURN THE WHOLE MATTER OVER IN MY HEAD </s><s> THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR THE THEORY OF SUICIDE WHICH YOU HAVE PUT FORWARD </s><s> WE MUST APOLOGIZE FOR HAVING INTRUDED UPON YOU PROFESSOR CORAM AND I PROMISE THAT WE WON'T DISTURB YOU UNTIL AFTER LUNCH </s><s> AT TWO O'CLOCK WE WILL COME AGAIN AND REPORT TO YOU ANYTHING WHICH MAY HAVE HAPPENED IN THE INTERVAL </s><s> HOLMES WAS CURIOUSLY DISTRAIT AND WE WALKED UP AND DOWN THE GARDEN PATH FOR SOME TIME IN SILENCE </s><s> HAVE YOU A CLUE </s><s> I ASKED AT LAST </s><s> IT DEPENDS UPON THOSE CIGARETTES THAT I SMOKED SAID HE </s><s> QUOTE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT I AM UTTERLY MISTAKEN </s><s> THE CIGARETTES WILL SHOW ME </s><s> WELL WELL YOU MAY SEE FOR YOURSELF </s><s> IF NOT THERE'S NO HARM DONE </s><s> OF COURSE WE ALWAYS HAVE THE OPTICIAN CLUE TO FALL BACK UPON BUT I TAKE A SHORT CUT WHEN I CAN GET IT </s><s> AH HERE IS THE GOOD MRS. MARKER </s><s> LET US ENJOY FIVE MINUTES OF INSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION WITH HER </s><s> I MAY HAVE REMARKED BEFORE THAT HOLMES HAD WHEN HE LIKED A PECULIARLY INGRATIATING WAY WITH WOMEN AND THAT HE VERY READILY ESTABLISHED TERMS OF CONFIDENCE WITH THEM </s><s> IN HALF THE TIME WHICH HE HAD NAMED HE HAD CAPTURED THE HOUSEKEEPER'S GOODWILL AND WAS CHATTING WITH HER AS IF HE HAD KNOWN HER FOR YEARS </s><s> YES MR. HOLMES IT IS AS YOU SAY SIR </s><s> HE DOES SMOKE SOMETHING TERRIBLE </s><s> ALL DAY AND SOMETIMES ALL NIGHT SIR </s><s> I'VE SEEN THAT ROOM OF A MORNING WELL SIR YOU'D HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS A LONDON FOG </s><s> POOR YOUNG MR. SMITH HE WAS A SMOKER ALSO BUT NOT AS BAD AS THE PROFESSOR </s><s> HIS HEALTH WELL I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S BETTER NOR WORSE FOR THE SMOKING </s><s> QUOTE AH QUOTE SAID HOLMES QUOTE BUT IT KILLS THE APPETITE QUOTE </s><s> WELL I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT SIR </s><s> I SUPPOSE THE PROFESSOR EATS HARDLY ANYTHING </s><s> WELL HE IS VARIABLE </s><s> I'LL SAY THAT FOR HIM </s><s> I'LL WAGER HE TOOK NO BREAKFAST THIS MORNING AND WON'T FACE HIS LUNCH AFTER ALL THE CIGARETTES I SAW HIM CONSUME </s><s> QUOTE WELL YOU'RE OUT THERE SIR AS IT HAPPENS FOR HE ATE A REMARKABLE BIG BREAKFAST THIS MORNING </s><s> I DON'T KNOW WHEN I'VE KNOWN HIM MAKE A BETTER ONE AND HE'S ORDERED A GOOD DISH OF CUTLETS FOR HIS LUNCH </s><s> I'M SURPRISED MYSELF FOR SINCE I CAME INTO THAT ROOM YESTERDAY AND SAW YOUNG MR. SMITH LYING THERE ON THE FLOOR I COULDN'T BEAR TO LOOK AT FOOD </s><s> WELL IT TAKES ALL SORTS TO MAKE A WORLD AND THE PROFESSOR HASN'T LET IT TAKE HIS APPETITE AWAY </s><s> WE LOITERED THE MORNING AWAY IN THE GARDEN </s><s> STANLEY HOPKINS HAD GONE DOWN TO THE VILLAGE TO LOOK INTO SOME RUMOURS OF A STRANGE WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN SEEN BY SOME CHILDREN ON THE CHATHAM ROAD THE PREVIOUS MORNING </s><s> AS TO MY FRIEND ALL HIS USUAL ENERGY SEEMED TO HAVE DESERTED HIM </s><s> I HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM HANDLE A CASE IN SUCH A HALF HEARTED FASHION </s><s> EVEN THE NEWS BROUGHT BACK BY HOPKINS THAT HE HAD FOUND THE CHILDREN AND THAT THEY HAD UNDOUBTEDLY SEEN A WOMAN EXACTLY CORRESPONDING WITH HOLMES'S DESCRIPTION AND WEARING EITHER SPECTACLES OR EYEGLASSES FAILED TO ROUSE ANY SIGN OF KEEN INTEREST </s><s> HE WAS MORE ATTENTIVE WHEN SUSAN WHO WAITED UPON US AT LUNCH VOLUNTEERED THE INFORMATION THAT SHE BELIEVED MR. SMITH HAD BEEN OUT FOR A WALK YESTERDAY MORNING AND THAT HE HAD ONLY RETURNED HALF AN HOUR BEFORE THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED </s><s> I COULD NOT MYSELF SEE THE BEARING OF THIS INCIDENT BUT I CLEARLY PERCEIVED THAT HOLMES WAS WEAVING IT INTO THE GENERAL SCHEME WHICH HE HAD FORMED IN HIS BRAIN </s><s> SUDDENLY HE SPRANG FROM HIS CHAIR AND GLANCED AT HIS WATCH </s><s> TWO O'CLOCK GENTLEMEN SAID HE </s><s> WE MUST GO UP AND HAVE IT OUT WITH OUR FRIEND THE PROFESSOR </s><s> THE OLD MAN HAD JUST FINISHED HIS LUNCH AND CERTAINLY HIS EMPTY DISH BORE EVIDENCE TO THE GOOD APPETITE WITH WHICH HIS HOUSEKEEPER HAD CREDITED HIM </s><s> HE WAS INDEED A WEIRD FIGURE AS HE TURNED HIS WHITE MANE AND HIS GLOWING EYES TOWARDS US </s><s> THE ETERNAL CIGARETTE SMOULDERED IN HIS MOUTH </s><s> HE HAD BEEN DRESSED AND WAS SEATED IN AN ARMCHAIR BY THE FIRE </s><s> WELL MR. HOLMES HAVE YOU SOLVED THIS MYSTERY YET </s><s> HE SHOVED THE LARGE TIN OF CIGARETTES WHICH STOOD ON A TABLE BESIDE HIM TOWARDS MY COMPANION </s><s> HOLMES STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND AT THE SAME MOMENT AND BETWEEN THEM THEY TIPPED THE BOX OVER THE EDGE </s><s> FOR A MINUTE OR TWO WE WERE ALL ON OUR KNEES RETRIEVING STRAY CIGARETTES FROM IMPOSSIBLE PLACES </s><s> WHEN WE ROSE AGAIN I OBSERVED HOLMES'S EYES WERE SHINING AND HIS CHEEKS TINGED WITH COLOUR </s><s> ONLY AT A CRISIS HAVE I SEEN THOSE BATTLE SIGNALS FLYING </s><s> YES SAID HE I HAVE SOLVED IT </s><s> STANLEY HOPKINS AND I STARED IN AMAZEMENT </s><s> SOMETHING LIKE A SNEER QUIVERED OVER THE GAUNT FEATURES OF THE OLD PROFESSOR </s><s> QUOTE INDEED </s><s> IN THE GARDEN </s><s> NO HERE </s><s> HERE </s><s> WHEN </s><s> THIS INSTANT </s><s> QUOTE YOU ARE SURELY JOKING MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES </s><s> YOU COMPEL ME TO TELL YOU THAT THIS IS TOO SERIOUS A MATTER TO BE TREATED IN SUCH A FASHION </s><s> I HAVE FORGED AND TESTED EVERY LINK OF MY CHAIN PROFESSOR CORAM AND I AM SURE THAT IT IS SOUND </s><s> WHAT YOUR MOTIVES ARE OR WHAT EXACT PART YOU PLAY IN THIS STRANGE BUSINESS I AM NOT YET ABLE TO SAY </s><s> IN A FEW MINUTES I SHALL PROBABLY HEAR IT FROM YOUR OWN LIPS </s><s> MEANWHILE I WILL RECONSTRUCT WHAT IS PAST FOR YOUR BENEFIT SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW THE INFORMATION WHICH I STILL REQUIRE </s><s> A LADY YESTERDAY ENTERED YOUR STUDY </s><s> SHE CAME WITH THE INTENTION OF POSSESSING HERSELF OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE IN YOUR BUREAU </s><s> SHE HAD A KEY OF HER OWN </s><s> I HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY OF EXAMINING YOURS AND I DO NOT FIND THAT SLIGHT DISCOLOURATION WHICH THE SCRATCH MADE UPON THE VARNISH WOULD HAVE PRODUCED </s><s> YOU WERE NOT AN ACCESSORY THEREFORE AND SHE CAME SO FAR AS I CAN READ THE EVIDENCE WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO ROB YOU </s><s> THE PROFESSOR BLEW A CLOUD FROM HIS LIPS </s><s> THIS IS MOST INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE SAID HE </s><s> QUOTE HAVE YOU NO MORE TO ADD </s><s> SURELY HAVING TRACED THIS LADY SO FAR YOU CAN ALSO SAY WHAT HAS BECOME OF HER </s><s> I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO DO SO </s><s> IN THE FIRST PLACE SHE WAS SEIZED BY YOUR SECRETARY AND STABBED HIM IN ORDER TO ESCAPE </s><s> THIS CATASTROPHE I AM INCLINED TO REGARD AS AN UNHAPPY ACCIDENT FOR I AM CONVINCED THAT THE LADY HAD NO INTENTION OF INFLICTING SO GRIEVOUS AN INJURY </s><s> AN ASSASSIN DOES NOT COME UNARMED </s><s> HORRIFIED BY WHAT SHE HAD DONE SHE RUSHED WILDLY AWAY FROM THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY </s>
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