dancing_men.txt

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<s> SO NOW I WAS IN POSSESSION OF C. ZERO AND M. AND I WAS IN A POSITION TO ATTACK THE FIRST MESSAGE ONCE MORE DIVIDING IT INTO WORDS AND PUTTING DOTS FOR EACH SYMBOL WHICH WAS STILL UNKNOWN </s>
<s> SO TREATED IT WORKED OUT IN THIS FASHION </s>
<s> M. </s>
<s> ERE </s>
<s> E. S. L. </s>
<s> NE </s>
<s> NOW THE FIRST LETTER CAN ONLY BE A WHICH IS A MOST USEFUL DISCOVERY SINCE IT OCCURS NO FEWER THAN THREE TIMES IN THIS SHORT SENTENCE AND THE H. IS ALSO APPARENT IN THE SECOND WORD </s>
<s> NOW IT BECOMES A. M. HERE A </s>
<s> E. SLANE </s>
<s> OR FILLING IN THE OBVIOUS VACANCIES IN THE NAME A. M. HERE ABE SLANEY </s>
<s> I HAD SO MANY LETTERS NOW THAT I COULD PROCEED WITH CONSIDERABLE CONFIDENCE TO THE SECOND MESSAGE WHICH WORKED OUT IN THIS FASHION A </s>
<s> ELRI </s>
<s> E. S. HERE I COULD ONLY MAKE SENSE BY PUTTING T. AND G. FOR THE MISSING LETTERS AND SUPPOSING THAT THE NAME WAS THAT OF SOME HOUSE OR INN AT WHICH THE WRITER WAS STAYING </s>
<s> INSPECTOR MARTIN AND I HAD LISTENED WITH THE UTMOST INTEREST TO THE FULL AND CLEAR ACCOUNT OF HOW MY FRIEND HAD PRODUCED RESULTS WHICH HAD LED TO SO COMPLETE A COMMAND OVER OUR DIFFICULTIES </s>
<s> QUOTE WHAT DID YOU DO THEN SIR QUOTE ASKED THE INSPECTOR </s>
<s> I HAD EVERY REASON TO SUPPOSE THAT THIS ABE SLANEY WAS AN AMERICAN SINCE ABE IS AN AMERICAN CONTRACTION AND SINCE A LETTER FROM AMERICA HAD BEEN THE STARTING POINT OF ALL THE TROUBLE </s>
<s> I HAD ALSO EVERY CAUSE TO THINK THAT THERE WAS SOME CRIMINAL SECRET IN THE MATTER </s>
<s> THE LADY'S ALLUSIONS TO HER PAST AND HER REFUSAL TO TAKE HER HUSBAND INTO HER CONFIDENCE BOTH POINTED IN THAT DIRECTION </s>
<s> I THEREFORE CABLED TO MY FRIEND WILSON HARGREAVE OF THE NEW YORK POLICE BUREAU WHO HAS MORE THAN ONCE MADE USE OF MY KNOWLEDGE OF LONDON CRIME </s>
<s> I ASKED HIM WHETHER THE NAME OF ABE SLANEY WAS KNOWN TO HIM </s>
<s> HERE IS HIS REPLY THE MOST DANGEROUS CROOK IN CHICAGO </s>
<s> ON THE VERY EVENING UPON WHICH I HAD HIS ANSWER HILTON CUBITT SENT ME THE LAST MESSAGE FROM SLANEY </s>
<s> WORKING WITH KNOWN LETTERS IT TOOK THIS FORM ELSIE </s>
<s> RE </s>
<s> ARE TO MEET THY GO </s>
<s> THE ADDITION OF A P. AND A D. COMPLETED A MESSAGE WHICH SHOWED ME THAT THE RASCAL WAS PROCEEDING FROM PERSUASION TO THREATS AND MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE CROOKS OF CHICAGO PREPARED ME TO FIND THAT HE MIGHT VERY RAPIDLY PUT HIS WORDS INTO ACTION </s>
<s> I AT ONCE CAME TO NORFOLK WITH MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE DOCTOR WATSON BUT UNHAPPILY ONLY IN TIME TO FIND THAT THE WORST HAD ALREADY OCCURRED </s>
<s> IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH YOU IN THE HANDLING OF A CASE SAID THE INSPECTOR WARMLY </s>
<s> YOU WILL EXCUSE ME HOWEVER IF I SPEAK FRANKLY TO YOU </s>
<s> YOU ARE ONLY ANSWERABLE TO YOURSELF BUT I HAVE TO ANSWER TO MY SUPERIORS </s>
<s> IF THIS ABE SLANEY LIVING AT ELRIGE'S IS INDEED THE MURDERER AND IF HE HAS MADE HIS ESCAPE WHILE I AM SEATED HERE I SHOULD CERTAINLY GET INTO SERIOUS TROUBLE </s>
<s> QUOTE YOU NEED NOT BE UNEASY </s>
<s> HE WILL NOT TRY TO ESCAPE </s>
<s> HOW DO YOU KNOW </s>
<s> TO FLY WOULD BE A CONFESSION OF GUILT </s>
<s> THEN LET US GO TO ARREST HIM </s>
<s> I EXPECT HIM HERE EVERY INSTANT </s>
<s> QUOTE BUT WHY SHOULD HE COME QUOTE </s>
<s> BECAUSE I HAVE WRITTEN AND ASKED HIM </s>
<s> BUT THIS IS INCREDIBLE MR. HOLMES </s>
<s> WHY SHOULD HE COME BECAUSE YOU HAVE ASKED HIM </s>
<s> WOULD NOT SUCH A REQUEST RATHER ROUSE HIS SUSPICIONS AND CAUSE HIM TO FLY </s>
<s> I THINK I HAVE KNOWN HOW TO FRAME THE LETTER SAID SHERLOCK HOLMES </s>
<s> IN FACT IF I AM NOT VERY MUCH MISTAKEN HERE IS THE GENTLEMAN HIMSELF COMING UP THE DNVE </s>
<s> A MAN WAS STRIDING UP THE PATH WHICH LED TO THE DOOR </s>
<s> HE WAS A TALL HANDSOME SWARTHY FELLOW CLAD IN A SUIT OF GRAY FLANNEL WITH A PANAMA HAT A BRISTLING BLACK BEARD AND A GREAT AGGRESSIVE HOOKED NOSE AND FLOURISHING A CANE AS HE WALKED </s>
<s> HE SWAGGERED UP THE PATH AS IF THE PLACE BELONGED TO HIM AND WE HEARD HIS LOUD CONFIDENT PEAL AT THE BELL </s>
<s> QUOTE I THINK GENTLEMEN QUOTE SAID HOLMES QUIETLY QUOTE THAT WE HAD BEST TAKE UP OUR POSITION BEHIND THE DOOR </s>
<s> EVERY PRECAUTION IS NECESSARY WHEN DEALING WITH SUCH A FELLOW </s>
<s> YOU WILL NEED YOUR HANDCUFFS INSPECTOR </s>
<s> YOU CAN LEAVE THE TALKING TO ME </s>
<s> WE WAITED IN SILENCE FOR A MINUTE ONE OF THOSE MINUTES WHICH ONE CAN NEVER FORGET </s>
<s> THEN THE DOOR OPENED AND THE MAN STEPPED IN </s>
<s> IN AN INSTANT HOLMES CLAPPED A PISTOL TO HIS HEAD AND MARTIN SLIPPED THE HANDCUFFS OVER HIS WRISTS </s>
<s> IT WAS ALL DONE SO SWIFTLY AND DEFTLY THAT THE FELLOW WAS HELPLESS BEFORE HE KNEW THAT HE WAS ATTACKED </s>
<s> HE GLARED FROM ONE TO THE OTHER OF US WITH A PAIR OF BLAZING BLACK EYES </s>
<s> THEN HE BURST INTO A BITTER LAUGH </s>
<s> WELL GENTLEMEN YOU HAVE THE DROP ON ME THIS TIME </s>
<s> I SEEM TO HAVE KNOCKED UP AGAINST SOMETHING HARD </s>
<s> BUT I CAME HERE IN ANSWER TO A LETTER FROM MRS. HILTON CUBITT </s>
<s> DON'T TELL ME THAT SHE IS IN THIS </s>
<s> DON'T TELL ME THAT SHE HELPED TO SET A TRAP FOR ME </s>
<s> MRS. HILTON CUBITT WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED AND IS AT DEATH'S DOOR </s>
<s> THE MAN GAVE A HOARSE CRY OF GRIEF WHICH RANG THROUGH THE HOUSE </s>
<s> YOU'RE CRAZY HE CRIED FIERCELY </s>
<s> QUOTE IT WAS HE THAT WAS HURT NOT SHE </s>
<s> WHO WOULD HAVE HURT LITTLE ELSIE </s>
<s> I MAY HAVE THREATENED HER GOD FORGIVE ME BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE TOUCHED A HAIR OF HER PRETTY HEAD </s>
<s> TAKE IT BACK YOU </s>
<s> SAY THAT SHE IS NOT HURT </s>
<s> SHE WAS FOUND BADLY WOUNDED BY THE SIDE OF HER DEAD HUSBAND </s>
<s> HE SANK WITH A DEEP GROAN ON TO THE SETTEE AND BURIED HIS FACE IN HIS MANACLED HANDS </s>
<s> FOR FIVE MINUTES HE WAS SILENT </s>
<s> THEN HE RAISED HIS FACE ONCE MORE AND SPOKE WITH THE COLD COMPOSURE OF DESPAIR </s>
<s> I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE FROM YOU GENTLEMEN SAID HE </s>
<s> IF I SHOT THE MAN HE HAD HIS SHOT AT ME AND THERE'S NO MURDER IN THAT </s>
<s> BUT IF YOU THINK I COULD HAVE HURT THAT WOMAN THEN YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER ME OR HER </s>
<s> I TELL YOU THERE WAS NEVER A MAN IN THIS WORLD LOVED A WOMAN MORE THAN I LOVED HER </s>
<s> I HAD A RIGHT TO HER </s>
<s> SHE WAS PLEDGED TO ME YEARS AGO </s>
<s> WHO WAS THIS ENGLISHMAN THAT HE SHOULD COME BETWEEN US </s>
<s> I TELL YOU THAT I HAD THE FIRST RIGHT TO HER AND THAT I WAS ONLY CLAIMING MY OWN </s>
<s> QUOTE SHE BROKE AWAY FROM YOUR INFLUENCE WHEN SHE FOUND THE MAN THAT YOU ARE QUOTE SAID HOLMES STERNLY </s>
<s> SHE FLED FROM AMERICA TO AVOID YOU AND SHE MARRIED AN HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN IN ENGLAND </s>
<s> YOU DOGGED HER AND FOLLOWED HER AND MADE HER LIFE A MISERY TO HER IN ORDER TO INDUCE HER TO ABANDON THE HUSBAND WHOM SHE LOVED AND RESPECTED IN ORDER TO FLY WITH YOU WHOM SHE FEARED AND HATED </s>
<s> YOU HAVE ENDED BY BRINGING ABOUT THE DEATH OF A NOBLE MAN AND DRIVING HIS WIFE TO SUICIDE </s>
<s> THAT IS YOUR RECORD IN THIS BUSINESS MR. ABE SLANEY AND YOU WILL ANSWER FOR IT TO THE LAW </s>
<s> IF ELSIE DIES I CARE NOTHING WHAT BECOMES OF ME SAID THE AMERICAN </s>
<s> HE OPENED ONE OF HIS HANDS AND LOOKED AT A NOTE CRUMPLED UP IN HIS PALM </s>
<s> SEE HERE MISTER HE CRIED WITH A GLEAM OF SUSPICION IN HIS EYES YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO SCARE ME OVER THIS ARE YOU </s>
<s> IF THE LADY IS HURT AS BAD AS YOU SAY WHO WAS IT THAT WROTE THIS NOTE </s>
<s> HE TOSSED IT FORWARD ON TO THE TABLE </s>
<s> I WROTE IT TO BRING YOU HERE </s>
<s> QUOTE YOU WROTE IT </s>
<s> THERE WAS NO ONE ON EARTH OUTSIDE THE JOINT WHO KNEW THE SECRET OF THE DANCING MEN </s>
<s> HOW CAME YOU TO WRITE IT </s>
<s> WHAT ONE MAN CAN INVENT ANOTHER CAN DISCOVER SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> THERE IS A CAB COMING TO CONVEY YOU TO NORWICH MR. SLANEY </s>
<s> BUT MEANWHILE YOU HAVE TIME TO MAKE SOME SMALL REPARATION FOR THE INJURY YOU HAVE WROUGHT </s>
<s> ARE YOU AWARE THAT MRS. HILTON CUBITT HAS HERSELF LAIN UNDER GRAVE SUSPICION OF THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND AND THAT IT WAS ONLY MY PRESENCE HERE AND THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH I HAPPENED TO POSSESS WHICH HAS SAVED HER FROM THE ACCUSATION </s>
<s> THE LEAST THAT YOU OWE HER IS TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE WHOLE WORLD THAT SHE WAS IN NO WAY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS TRAGIC END </s>
<s> I ASK NOTHING BETTER SAID THE AMERICAN </s>
<s> QUOTE I GUESS THE VERY BEST CASE I CAN MAKE FOR MYSELF IS THE ABSOLUTE NAKED TRUTH QUOTE </s>
<s> IT IS MY DUTY TO WARN YOU THAT IT WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU CRIED THE INSPECTOR WITH THE MAGNIFICENT FAIR PLAY OF THE BRITISH CRIMINAL LAW </s>
<s> SLANEY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS </s>
<s> I'LL CHANCE THAT SAID HE </s>
<s> FIRST OF ALL I WANT YOU GENTLEMEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE KNOWN THIS LADY SINCE SHE WAS A CHILD </s>
<s> THERE WERE SEVEN OF US IN A GANG IN CHICAGO AND ELSIE'S FATHER WAS THE BOSS OF THE JOINT </s>
<s> HE WAS A CLEVER MAN WAS OLD PATRICK </s>
<s> IT WAS HE WHO INVENTED THAT WRITING WHICH WOULD PASS AS A CHILD'S SCRAWL UNLESS YOU JUST HAPPENED TO HAVE THE KEY TO IT </s>
<s> WELL ELSIE LEARNED SOME OF OUR WAYS. BUT SHE COULDN'T STAND THE BUSINESS AND SHE HAD A BIT OF HONEST MONEY OF HER OWN. SO SHE GAVE US ALL THE SLIP AND GOT AWAY TO LONDON </s>
<s> SHE HAD BEEN ENGAGED TO ME AND SHE WOULD HAVE MARRIED ME I BELIEVE IF I HAD TAKEN OVER ANOTHER PROFESSION BUT SHE WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ON THE CROSS </s>
<s> IT WAS ONLY AFTER HER MARRIAGE TO THIS ENGLISHMAN THAT I WAS ABLE TO FIND OUT WHERE SHE WAS </s>
<s> I WROTE TO HER BUT GOT NO ANSWER </s>
<s> AFTER THAT I CAME OVER AND AS LETTERS WERE NO USE I PUT MY MESSAGES WHERE SHE COULD READ THEM </s>
<s> WELL I HAVE BEEN HERE A MONTH NOW </s>
<s> I LIVED IN THAT FARM WHERE I HAD A ROOM DOWN BELOW AND COULD GET IN AND OUT EVERY NIGHT AND NO ONE THE WISER </s>
<s> I TRIED ALL I COULD TO COAX ELSIE AWAY </s>
<s> I KNEW THAT SHE READ THE MESSAGES FOR ONCE SHE WROTE AN ANSWER UNDER ONE OF THEM </s>
<s> THEN MY TEMPER GOT THE BETTER OF ME AND I BEGAN TO THREATEN HER </s>
<s> SHE SENT ME A LETTER THEN IMPLORING ME TO GO AWAY AND SAYING THAT IT WOULD BREAK HER HEART IF ANY SCANDAL SHOULD COME UPON HER HUSBAND </s>
<s> SHE SAID THAT SHE WOULD COME DOWN WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS ASLEEP AT THREE IN THE MORNING AND SPEAK WITH ME THROUGH THE END WINDOW IF I WOULD GO AWAY AFTERWARDS AND LEAVE HER IN PEACE </s>
<s> SHE CAME DOWN AND BROUGHT MONEY WITH HER TRYING TO BRIBE ME TO GO </s>
<s> THIS MADE ME MAD AND I CAUGHT HER ARM AND TRIED TO PULL HER THROUGH THE WINDOW </s>
<s> AT THAT MOMENT IN RUSHED THE HUSBAND WITH HIS REVOLVER IN HIS HAND </s>
<s> ELSIE HAD SUNK DOWN UPON THE FLOOR AND WE WERE FACE TO FACE </s>
<s> I WAS HEELED ALSO AND I HELD UP MY GUN TO SCARE HIM OFF AND LET ME GET AWAY </s>
<s> HE FIRED AND MISSED ME </s>
<s> I PULLED OFF ALMOST AT THE SAME INSTANT AND DOWN HE DROPPED </s>
<s> I MADE AWAY ACROSS THE GARDEN AND AS I WENT I HEARD THE WINDOW SHUT BEHIND ME </s>
<s> THAT'S GOD'S TRUTH GENTLEMEN EVERY WORD OF IT AND I HEARD NO MORE ABOUT IT UNTIL THAT LAD CAME RIDING UP WITH A NOTE WHICH MADE ME WALK IN HERE LIKE A JAY AND GIVE MYSELF INTO YOUR HANDS </s>
<s> A CAB HAD DRIVEN UP WHILST THE AMERICAN HAD BEEN TALKING </s>
<s> TWO UNIFORMED POLICEMEN SAT INSIDE </s>
<s> INSPECTOR MARTIN ROSE AND TOUCHED HIS PRISONER ON THE SHOULDER </s>
<s> QUOTE IT IS TIME FOR US TO GO QUOTE </s>
<s> CAN I SEE HER FIRST </s>
<s> NO SHE IS NOT CONSCIOUS </s>
<s> MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES </s>
<s> I ONLY HOPE THAT IF EVER AGAIN I HAVE AN IMPORTANT CASE I SHALL HAVE THE GOOD FORTUNE TO HAVE YOU BY MY SIDE </s>
<s> WE STOOD AT THE WINDOW AND WATCHED THE CAB DRIVE AWAY </s>
<s> AS I TURNED BACK MY EYE CAUGHT THE PELLET OF PAPER WHICH THE PRISONER HAD TOSSED UPON THE TABLE </s>
<s> IT WAS THE NOTE WITH WHICH HOLMES HAD DECOYED HIM </s>
<s> SEE IF YOU CAN READ IT WATSON SAID HE WITH A SMILE </s>
<s> IF YOU USE THE CODE WHICH I HAVE EXPLAINED SAID HOLMES YOU WILL FIND THAT IT SIMPLY MEANS COME HERE AT ONCE </s>
<s> I WAS CONVINCED THAT IT WAS AN INVITATION WHICH HE WOULD NOT REFUSE SINCE HE COULD NEVER IMAGINE THAT IT COULD COME FROM ANYONE BUT THE LADY </s>
<s> AND SO MY DEAR WATSON WE HAVE ENDED BY TURNING THE DANCING MEN TO GOOD WHEN THEY HAVE SO OFTEN BEEN THE AGENTS OF EVIL AND I THINK THAT I HAVE FULFILLED MY PROMISE OF GIVING YOU SOMETHING UNUSUAL FOR YOUR NOTEBOOK </s>
<s> THREE FORTY IS OUR TRAIN AND I FANCY WE SHOULD BE BACK IN BAKER STREET FOR DINNER QUOTE </s>
<s> ONLY ONE WORD OF EPILOGUE </s>
<s> THE AMERICAN ABE SLANEY WAS CONDEMNED TO DEATH AT THE WINTER ASSIZES AT NORWICH BUT HIS PENALTY WAS CHANGED TO PENAL SERVITUDE IN CONSIDERATION OF MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE CERTAINTY THAT HILTON CUBITT HAD FIRED THE FIRST SHOT </s>
<s> OF MRS. HILTON CUBITT I ONLY KNOW THAT I HAVE HEARD SHE RECOVERED ENTIRELY AND THAT SHE STILL REMAINS A WIDOW DEVOTING HER WHOLE LIFE TO THE CARE OF THE POOR AND TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF HER HUSBAND'S ESTATE </s>