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<s> QUOTE WELL THEN ASK MRS. OAKSHOTT FOR IT QUOTE </s><s> SHE TOLD ME TO ASK YOU </s><s> WELL YOU CAN ASK THE KING OF PROOSIA FOR ALL I CARE </s><s> I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF IT </s><s> GET OUT OF THIS </s><s> HE RUSHED FIERCELY FORWARD AND THE INQUIRER FLITTED AWAY INTO THE DARKNESS </s><s> HA THIS MAY SAVE US A VISIT TO BRIXTON ROAD WHISPERED HOLMES </s><s> COME WITH ME AND WE WILL SEE WHAT IS TO BE MADE OF THIS FELLOW </s><s> STRIDING THROUGH THE SCATTERED KNOTS OF PEOPLE WHO LOUNGED ROUND THE FLARING STALLS MY COMPANION SPEEDILY OVERTOOK THE LITTLE MAN AND TOUCHED HIM UPON THE SHOULDER </s><s> HE SPRANG ROUND AND I COULD SEE IN THE GAS LIGHT THAT EVERY VESTIGE OF COLOUR HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM HIS FACE </s><s> QUOTE WHO ARE YOU THEN </s><s> WHAT DO YOU WANT HE ASKED IN A QUAVERING VOICE </s><s> YOU WILL EXCUSE ME SAID HOLMES BLANDLY BUT I COULD NOT HELP OVERHEARING THE QUESTIONS WHICH YOU PUT TO THE SALESMAN JUST NOW </s><s> I THINK THAT I COULD BE OF ASSISTANCE TO YOU </s><s> YOU </s><s> WHO ARE YOU </s><s> HOW COULD YOU KNOW ANYTHING OF THE MATTER </s><s> QUOTE MY NAME IS SHERLOCK HOLMES </s><s> IT IS MY BUSINESS TO KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DON'T KNOW </s><s> BUT YOU CAN KNOW NOTHING OF THIS </s><s> EXCUSE ME I KNOW EVERYTHING OF IT </s><s> YOU ARE ENDEAVOURING TO TRACE SOME GEESE WHICH WERE SOLD BY MRS. OAKSHOTT OF BRIXTON ROAD TO A SALESMAN NAMED BRECKINRIDGE BY HIM IN TURN TO MR. WINDIGATE OF THE ALPHA AND BY HIM TO HIS CLUB OF WHICH MR. HENRY BAKER IS A MEMBER </s><s> OH SIR YOU ARE THE VERY MAN WHOM I HAVE LONGED TO MEET CRIED THE LITTLE FELLOW WITH OUTSTRETCHED HANDS AND QUIVERING FINGERS </s><s> QUOTE I CAN HARDLY EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW INTERESTED I AM IN THIS MATTER QUOTE </s><s> SHERLOCK HOLMES HAILED A FOUR WHEELER WHICH WAS PASSING </s><s> IN THAT CASE WE HAD BETTER DISCUSS IT IN A COSY ROOM RATHER THAN IN THIS WIND SWEPT MARKET PLACE SAID HE </s><s> BUT PRAY TELL ME BEFORE WE GO FARTHER WHO IT IS THAT I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF ASSISTING </s><s> THE MAN HESITATED FOR AN INSTANT </s><s> MY NAME IS JOHN ROBINSON HE ANSWERED WITH A SIDELONG GLANCE </s><s> NO NO THE REAL NAME SAID HOLMES SWEETLY </s><s> IT IS ALWAYS AWKWARD DOING BUSINESS WITH AN ALIAS </s><s> A FLUSH SPRANG TO THE WHITE CHEEKS OF THE STRANGER </s><s> QUOTE WELL THEN QUOTE SAID HE QUOTE MY REAL NAME IS JAMES RYDER QUOTE </s><s> PRECISELY SO </s><s> HEAD ATTENDANT AT THE HOTEL COSMOPOLITAN </s><s> PRAY STEP INTO THE CAB AND I SHALL SOON BE ABLE TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING WHICH YOU WOULD WISH TO KNOW </s><s> THE LITTLE MAN STOOD GLANCING FROM ONE TO THE OTHER OF US WITH HALF FRIGHTENED HALF HOPEFUL EYES AS ONE WHO IS NOT SURE WHETHER HE IS ON THE VERGE OF A WINDFALL OR OF A CATASTROPHE </s><s> THEN HE STEPPED INTO THE CAB AND IN HALF AN HOUR WE WERE BACK IN THE SITTING ROOM AT BAKER STREET </s><s> NOTHING HAD BEEN SAID DURING OUR DRIVE BUT THE HIGH THIN BREATHING OF OUR NEW COMPANION AND THE CLASPINGS AND UNCLASPINGS OF HIS HANDS SPOKE OF THE NERVOUS TENSION WITHIN HIM </s><s> HERE WE ARE SAID HOLMES CHEERILY AS WE FILED INTO THE ROOM </s><s> THE FIRE LOOKS VERY SEASONABE IN THIS WEATHER </s><s> YOU LOOK COLD MR. RYDER </s><s> PRAY TAKE THE BASKET CHAIR </s><s> I WILL JUST PUT ON MY SLIPPERS BEFORE WE SETTLE THIS LITTLE MATTER OF YOURS </s><s> NOW THEN </s><s> YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT BECAME OF THOSE GEESE </s><s> QUOTE YES SIR QUOTE </s><s> OR RATHER I FANCY OF THAT GOOSE </s><s> IT WAS ONE BIRD I IMAGINE IN WHICH YOU WERE INTERESTED WHITE WITH A BLACK BAR ACROSS THE TAIL </s><s> RYDER QUIVERED WITH EMOTION </s><s> OH SIR HE CRIED CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE IT WENT TO </s><s> IT CAME HERE </s><s> HERE </s><s> QUOTE YES AND A MOST REMARKABLE BIRD IT PROVED </s><s> I DON'T WONDER THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE AN INTEREST IN IT </s><s> IT LAID AN EGG AFTER IT WAS DEAD THE BONNIEST BRIGHTEST LITTLE BLUE EGG THAT EVER WAS SEEN </s><s> I HAVE IT HERE IN MY MUSEUM </s><s> OUR VISITOR STAGGERED TO HIS FEET AND CLUTCHED THE MANTELPIECE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND </s><s> HOLMES UNLOCKED HIS STRONG BOX AND HELD UP THE BLUE CARBUNCLE WHICH SHONE OUT LIKE A STAR WITH A COLD BRILLIANT MANY POINTED RADIANCE </s><s> RYDER STOOD GLARING WITH A DRAWN FACE UNCERTAIN WHETHER TO CLAIM OR TO DISOWN IT </s><s> THE GAME'S UP RYDER SAID HOLMES QUIETLY </s><s> HOLD UP MAN OR YOU'LL BE INTO THE FIRE </s><s> GIVE HIM AN ARM BACK INTO HIS CHAIR WATSON </s><s> HE'S NOT GOT BLOOD ENOUGH TO GO IN FOR FELONY WITH IMPUNITY </s><s> GIVE HIM A DASH OF BRANDY </s><s> SO </s><s> NOW HE LOOKS A LITTLE MORE HUMAN </s><s> WHAT A SHRIMP IT IS TO BE SURE </s><s> FOR A MOMENT HE HAD STAGGERED AND NEARLY FALLEN BUT THE BRANDY BROUGHT A TINGE OF COLOUR INTO HIS CHEEKS AND HE SAT STARING WITH FRIGHTENED EYES AT HIS ACCUSER </s><s> I HAVE ALMOST EVERY LINK IN MY HANDS AND ALL THE PROOFS WHICH I COULD POSSIBLY NEED SO THERE IS LITTLE WHICH YOU NEED TELL ME </s><s> STILL THAT LITTLE MAY AS WELL BE CLEARED UP TO MAKE THE CASE COMPLETE </s><s> YOU HAD HEARD RYDER OF THIS BLUE STONE OF THE COUNTESS OF MORCAR'S QUOTE </s><s> IT WAS CATHERINE CUSACK WHO TOLD ME OF IT SAID HE IN A CRACKLING VOICE </s><s> I SEE HER LADYSHIP'S WAITING MAID </s><s> WELL THE TEMPTATION OF SUDDEN WEALTH SO EASILY ACQUIRED WAS TOO MUCH FOR YOU AS IT HAS BEEN FOR BETTER MEN BEFORE YOU BUT YOU WERE NOT VERY SCRUPULOUS IN THE MEANS YOU USED </s><s> IT SEEMS TO ME RYDER THAT THERE IS THE MAKING OF A VERY PRETTY VILLAIN IN YOU </s><s> YOU KNEW THAT THIS MAN HORNER THE PLUMBER HAD BEEN CONCERNED IN SOME SUCH MATTER BEFORE AND THAT SUSPICION WOULD REST THE MORE READILY UPON HIM </s><s> WHAT DID YOU DO THEN </s><s> YOU MADE SOME SMALL JOB IN MY LADY'S ROOM YOU AND YOUR CONFEDERATE CUSACK AND YOU MANAGED THAT HE SHOULD BE THE MAN SENT FOR </s><s> THEN WHEN HE HAD LEFT YOU RIFLED THE JEWEL CASE RAISED THE ALARM AND HAD THIS UNFORTUNATE MAN ARRESTED </s><s> YOU THEN </s><s> RYDER THREW HIMSELF DOWN SUDDENLY UPON THE RUG AND CLUTCHED AT MY COMPANION'S KNEES </s><s> FOR GOD'S SAKE HAVE MERCY HE SHRIEKED </s><s> THINK OF MY FATHER OF MY MOTHER </s><s> IT WOULD BREAK THEIR HEARTS </s><s> I NEVER WENT WRONG BEFORE </s><s> I NEVER WILL AGAIN </s><s> I SWEAR IT </s><s> I'LL SWEAR IT ON A BIBLE </s><s> OH DON'T BRING IT INTO COURT </s><s> FOR CHRIST'S SAKE DON'T QUOTE </s><s> GET BACK INTO YOUR CHAIR SAID HOLMES STERNLY </s><s> IT IS VERY WELL TO CRINGE AND CRAWL NOW BUT YOU THOUGHT LITTLE ENOUGH OF THIS POOR HORNER IN THE DOCK FOR A CRIME OF WHICH HE KNEW NOTHING </s><s> I WILL FLY MR. HOLMES </s><s> I WILL LEAVE THE COUNTRY SIR </s><s> THEN THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM WILL BREAK DOWN </s><s> HUM </s><s> WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT </s><s> AND NOW LET US HEAR A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE NEXT ACT </s><s> HOW CAME THE STONE INTO THE GOOSE AND HOW CAME THE GOOSE INTO THE OPEN MARKET </s><s> TELL US THE TRUTH FOR THERE LIES YOUR ONLY HOPE OF SAFETY QUOTE </s><s> RYDER PASSED HIS TONGUE OVER HIS PARCHED LIPS </s><s> I WILL TELL YOU IT JUST AS IT HAPPENED SIR SAID HE </s><s> WHEN HORNER HAD BEEN ARRESTED IT SEEMED TO ME THAT IT WOULD BE BEST FOR ME TO GET AWAY WITH THE STONE AT ONCE FOR I DID NOT KNOW AT WHAT MOMENT THE POLICE MIGHT NOT TAKE IT INTO THEIR HEADS TO SEARCH ME AND MY ROOM </s><s> THERE WAS NO PLACE ABOUT THE HOTEL WHERE IT WOULD BE SAFE </s><s> I WENT OUT AS IF ON SOME COMMISSION AND I MADE FOR MY SISTER'S HOUSE </s><s> SHE HAD MARRIED A MAN NAMED OAKSHOTT AND LIVED IN BRIXTON ROAD WHERE SHE FATTENED FOWLS FOR THE MARKET </s><s> ALL THE WAY THERE EVERY MAN I MET SEEMED TO ME TO BE A POLICEMAN OR A DETECTIVE AND FOR ALL THAT IT WAS A COLD NIGHT THE SWEAT WAS POURING DOWN MY FACE BEFORE I CAME TO THE BRIXTON ROAD </s><s> MY SISTER ASKED ME WHAT WAS THE MATTER AND WHY I WAS SO PALE BUT I TOLD HER THAT I HAD BEEN UPSET BY THE JEWEL ROBBERY AT THE HOTEL </s><s> THEN I WENT INTO THE BACK YARD AND SMOKED A PIPE AND WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE BEST TO DO </s><s> I HAD A FRIEND ONCE CALLED MAUDSLEY WHO WENT TO THE BAD AND HAS JUST BEEN SERVING HIS TIME IN PENTONVILLE </s><s> ONE DAY HE HAD MET ME AND FELL INTO TALK ABOUT THE WAYS OF THIEVES AND HOW THEY COULD GET RID OF WHAT THEY STOLE </s><s> I KNEW THAT HE WOULD BE TRUE TO ME FOR I KNEW ONE OR TWO THINGS ABOUT HIM SO I MADE UP MY MIND TO GO RIGHT ON TO KILBURN WHERE HE LIVED AND TAKE HIM INTO MY CONFIDENCE </s><s> HE WOULD SHOW ME HOW TO TURN THE STONE INTO MONEY </s><s> BUT HOW TO GET TO HIM IN SAFETY </s><s> I THOUGHT OF THE AGONIES I HAD GONE THROUGH IN COMING FROM THE HOTEL </s><s> I MIGHT AT ANY MOMENT BE SEIZED AND SEARCHED AND THERE WOULD BE THE STONE IN MY WAISTCOAT POCKET </s><s> I WAS LEANING AGAINST THE WALL AT THE TIME AND LOOKING AT THE GEESE WHICH WERE WADDLING ABOUT ROUND MY FEET AND SUDDENLY AN IDEA CAME INTO MY HEAD WHICH SHOWED ME HOW I COULD BEAT THE BEST DETECTIVE THAT EVER LIVED </s><s> MY SISTER HAD TOLD ME SOME WEEKS BEFORE THAT I MIGHT HAVE THE PICK OF HER GEESE FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT AND I KNEW THAT SHE WAS ALWAYS AS GOOD AS HER WORD </s><s> I WOULD TAKE MY GOOSE NOW AND IN IT I WOULD CARRY MY STONE TO KILBURN </s><s> THERE WAS A LITTLE SHED IN THE YARD AND BEHIND THIS I DROVE ONE OF THE BIRDS A FINE BIG ONE WHITE WITH A BARRED TAIL </s><s> I CAUGHT IT AND PRYING ITS BILL OPEN I THRUST THE STONE DOWN ITS THROAT AS FAR AS MY FINGER COULD REACH </s><s> THE BIRD GAVE A GULP AND I FELT THE STONE PASS ALONG ITS GULLET AND DOWN INTO ITS CROP </s><s> BUT THE CREATURE FLAPPED AND STRUGGLED AND OUT CAME MY SISTER TO KNOW WHAT WAS THE MATTER </s><s> AS I TURNED TO SPEAK TO HER THE BRUTE BROKE LOOSE AND FLUTTERED OFF AMONG THE OTHERS </s><s> WHATEVER WERE YOU DOING WITH THAT BIRD JEM SAYS SHE </s><s> QUOTE WELL SAID I YOU SAID YOU'D GIVE ME ONE FOR CHRISTMAS AND I WAS FEELING WHICH WAS THE FATTEST </s><s> OH SAYS SHE WE'VE SET YOURS ASIDE FOR YOU JEM'S BIRD WE CALL IT </s><s> IT'S THE BIG WHITE ONE OVER YONDER </s><s> THERE'S TWENTY SIX OF THEM WHICH MAKES ONE FOR YOU AND ONE FOR US AND TWO DOZEN FOR THE MARKET </s><s> THANK YOU MAGGIE SAYS L. BUT IF IT IS ALL THE SAME TO YOU I'D RATHER HAVE THAT ONE I WAS HANDLING JUST NOW </s><s> THE OTHER IS A GOOD THREE POUND HEAVIER SAID SHE AND WE FATTENED IT EXPRESSLY FOR YOU </s><s> NEVER MIND </s><s> I'LL HAVE THE OTHER AND I'LL TAKE IT NOW SAID I </s><s> OH JUST AS YOU LIKE SAID SHE A LITTLE HUFFED </s><s> WHICH IS IT YOU WANT THEN </s><s> QUOTE THAT WHITE ONE WITH THE BARRED TAIL RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOCK </s><s> OH VERY WELL </s><s> KILL IT AND TAKE IT WITH YOU </s><s> WELL I DID WHAT SHE SAID MR. HOLMES AND I CARRIED THE BIRD ALL THE WAY TO KILBURN </s><s> I TOLD MY PAL WHAT I HAD DONE FOR HE WAS A MAN THAT IT WAS EASY TO TELL A THING LIKE THAT TO </s><s> HE LAUGHED UNTIL HE CHOKED AND WE GOT A KNIFE AND OPENED THE GOOSE </s><s> MY HEART TURNED TO WATER FOR THERE WAS NO SIGN OF THE STONE AND I KNEW THAT SOME TERRIBLE MISTAKE HAD OCCURRED </s><s> I LEFT THE BIRD RUSHED BACK TO MY SISTER'S AND HURRIED INTO THE BACK YARD </s><s> THERE WAS NOT A BIRD TO BE SEEN THERE </s><s> WHERE ARE THEY ALL MAGGIE </s><s> I CRIED </s><s> GONE TO THE DEALER'S JEM </s><s> WHICH DEALER'S </s><s> QUOTE BRECKINRIDGE OF COVENT GARDEN </s><s> BUT WAS THERE ANOTHER WITH A BARRED TAIL </s><s> I ASKED THE SAME AS THE ONE I CHOSE </s><s> YES JEM THERE WERE TWO BARRED TAILED ONES AND I COULD NEVER TELL THEM APART </s><s> WELL THEN OF COURSE I SAW IT ALL AND I RAN OFF AS HARD AS MY FEET WOULD CARRY ME TO THIS MAN BRECKINRIDGE BUT HE HAD SOLD THE LOT AT ONCE AND NOT ONE WORD WOULD HE TELL ME AS TO WHERE THEY HAD GONE </s><s> YOU HEARD HIM YOURSELVES TO NIGHT </s><s> WELL HE HAS ALWAYS ANSWERED ME LIKE THAT </s><s> MY SISTER THINKS THAT I AM GOING MAD </s><s> SOMETIMES I THINK THAT I AM MYSELF </s><s> AND NOW AND NOW I AM MYSELF A BRANDED THIEF WITHOUT EVER HAVING TOUCHED THE WEALTH FOR WHICH I SOLD MY CHARACTER </s><s> GOD HELP ME </s><s> GOD HELP ME </s><s> HE BURST INTO CONVULSIVE SOBBING WITH HIS FACE BURIED IN HIS HANDS </s><s> THERE WAS A LONG SILENCE BROKEN ONLY BY HIS HEAVY BREATHING AND BY THE MEASURED TAPPING OF SHERLOCK HOLMES'S FINGER TIPS UPON THE EDGE OF THE TABLE </s><s> THEN MY FRIEND ROSE AND THREW OPEN THE DOOR </s><s> GET OUT SAID HE </s><s> QUOTE WHAT SIR </s><s> OH HEAVEN BLESS YOU </s><s> NO MORE WORDS </s><s> GET OUT </s><s> AND NO MORE WORDS WERE NEEDED </s><s> THERE WAS A RUSH A CLATTER UPON THE STAIRS THE BANG OF A DOOR AND THE CRISP RATTLE OF RUNNING FOOTFALLS FROM THE STREET </s><s> AFTER ALL WATSON SAID HOLMES REACHING UP HIS HAND FOR HIS CLAY PIPE I AM NOT RETAINED BY THE POLICE TO SUPPLY THEIR DEFICIENCIES </s><s> IF HORNER WERE IN DANGER IT WOULD BE ANOTHER THING BUT THIS FELLOW WILL NOT APPEAR AGAINST HIM AND THE CASE MUST COLLAPSE </s><s> I SUPPOSE THAT I AM COMMUTING A FELONY BUT IT IS JUST POSSIBLE THAT I AM SAVING A SOUL </s><s> THIS FELLOW WILL NOT GO WRONG AGAIN HE IS TOO TERRIBLY FRIGHTENED </s><s> SEND HIM TO JAIL NOW AND YOU MAKE HIM A JAIL BIRD FOR LIFE </s><s> BESIDES IT IS THE SEASON OF FORGIVENESS </s><s> CHANCE HAS PUT IN OUR WAY A MOST SINGULAR AND WHIMSICAL PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION IS ITS OWN REWARD </s><s> IF YOU WILL HAVE THE GOODNESS TO TOUCH THE BELL DOCTOR WE WILL BEGIN ANOTHER INVESTIGATION IN WHICH ALSO A BIRD WILL BE THE CHIEF FEATURE </s>
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