valley_of_fear.txt

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<s> QUOTE I AM INCLINED TO THINK QUOTE SAID I </s>
<s> I SHOULD DO SO SHERLOCK HOLMES REMARKED IMPATIENTLY </s>
<s> I BELIEVE THAT I AM ONE OF THE MOST LONG SUFFERING OF MORTALS BUT I'LL ADMIT THAT I WAS ANNOYED AT THE SARDONIC INTERRUPTION </s>
<s> REALLY HOLMES SAID I SEVERELY YOU ARE A LITTLE TRYING AT TIMES </s>
<s> HE WAS TOO MUCH ABSORBED WITH HIS OWN THOUGHTS TO GIVE ANY IMMEDIATE ANSWER TO MY REMONSTRANCE </s>
<s> HE LEANED UPON HIS HAND WITH HIS UNTASTED BREAKFAST BEFORE HIM AND HE STARED AT THE SLIP OF PAPER WHICH HE HAD JUST DRAWN FROM ITS ENVELOPE </s>
<s> THEN HE TOOK THE ENVELOPE ITSELF HELD IT UP TO THE LIGHT AND VERY CAREFULLY STUDIED BOTH THE EXTERIOR AND THE FLAP </s>
<s> IT IS PORLOCK'S WRITING SAID HE THOUGHTFULLY </s>
<s> I CAN HARDLY DOUBT THAT IT IS PORLOCK'S WRITING THOUGH I HAVE SEEN IT ONLY TWICE BEFORE </s>
<s> THE GREEK E. WITH THE PECULIAR TOP FLOURISH IS DISTINCTIVE </s>
<s> BUT IF IT IS PORLOCK THEN IT MUST BE SOMETHING OF THE VERY FIRST IMPORTANCE </s>
<s> HE WAS SPEAKING TO HIMSELF RATHER THAN TO ME BUT MY VEXATION DISAPPEARED IN THE INTEREST WHICH THE WORDS AWAKENED </s>
<s> QUOTE WHO THEN IS PORLOCK QUOTE </s>
<s> I ASKED </s>
<s> PORLOCK WATSON IS A NOM DE PLUME A MERE IDENTIFICATION MARK BUT BEHIND IT LIES A SHIFTY AND EVASIVE PERSONALITY </s>
<s> IN A FORMER LETTER HE FRANKLY INFORMED ME THAT THE NAME WAS NOT HIS OWN AND DEFIED ME EVER TO TRACE HIM AMONG THE TEEMING MILLIONS OF THIS GREAT CITY </s>
<s> PORLOCK IS IMPORTANT NOT FOR HIMSELF BUT FOR THE GREAT MAN WITH WHOM HE IS IN TOUCH </s>
<s> PICTURE TO YOURSELF THE PILOT FISH WITH THE SHARK THE JACKAL WITH THE LION ANYTHING THAT IS INSIGNIFICANT IN COMPANIONSHIP WITH WHAT IS FORMIDABLE NOT ONLY FORMIDABLE WATSON BUT SINISTER IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE SINISTER </s>
<s> THAT IS WHERE HE COMES WITHIN MY PURVIEW </s>
<s> YOU HAVE HEARD ME SPEAK OF PROFESSOR MORIARTY </s>
<s> MY BLUSHES WATSON </s>
<s> HOLMES MURMURED IN A DEPRECATING VOICE </s>
<s> I WAS ABOUT TO SAY AS HE IS UNKNOWN TO THE PUBLIC </s>
<s> A TOUCH </s>
<s> A DISTINCT TOUCH QUOTE CRIED HOLMES </s>
<s> YOU ARE DEVELOPING A CERTAIN UNEXPECTED VEIN OF PAWKY HUMOUR WATSON AGAINST WHICH I MUST LEARN TO GUARD MYSELF </s>
<s> BUT IN CALLING MORIARTY A CRIMINAL YOU ARE UTTERING LIBEL IN THE EYES OF THE LAW AND THERE LIE THE GLORY AND THE WONDER OF IT </s>
<s> THE GREATEST SCHEMER OF ALL TIME THE ORGANIZER OF EVERY DEVILTRY THE CONTROLLING BRAIN OF THE UNDERWORLD A BRAIN WHICH MIGHT HAVE MADE OR MARRED THE DESTINY OF NATIONS THAT'S THE MAN </s>
<s> BUT SO ALOOF IS HE FROM GENERAL SUSPICION SO IMMUNE FROM CRITICISM SO ADMIRABLE IN HIS MANAGEMENT AND SELF EFFACEMENT THAT FOR THOSE VERY WORDS THAT YOU HAVE UTTERED HE COULD HALE YOU TO A COURT AND EMERGE WITH YOUR YEAR'S PENSION AS A SOLATIUM FOR HIS WOUNDED CHARACTER </s>
<s> IS HE NOT THE CELEBRATED AUTHOR OF THE DYNAMICS OF AN ASTEROID A BOOK WHICH ASCENDS TO SUCH RAREFIED HEIGHTS OF PURE MATHEMATICS THAT IT IS SAID THAT THERE WAS NO MAN IN THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS CAPABLE OF CRITICIZING IT </s>
<s> IS THIS A MAN TO TRADUCE </s>
<s> FOULMOUTHED DOCTOR AND SLANDERED PROFESSOR SUCH WOULD BE YOUR RESPECTIVE ROLES </s>
<s> THAT'S GENIUS WATSON </s>
<s> BUT IF I AM SPARED BY LESSER MEN OUR DAY WILL SURELY COME </s>
<s> MAY I BE THERE TO SEE </s>
<s> I EXCLAIMED DEVOUTLY </s>
<s> BUT YOU WERE SPEAKING OF THIS MAN PORLOCK </s>
<s> AH YES THE SO CALLED PORLOCK IS A LINK IN THE CHAIN SOME LITTLE WAY FROM ITS GREAT ATTACHMENT </s>
<s> PORLOCK IS NOT QUITE A SOUND LINK BETWEEN OURSELVES </s>
<s> HE IS THE ONLY FLAW IN THAT CHAIN SO FAR AS I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TEST IT QUOTE </s>
<s> BUT NO CHAIN IS STRONGER THAN ITS WEAKEST LINK </s>
<s> EXACTLY MY DEAR WATSON </s>
<s> HENCE THE EXTREME IMPORTANCE OF PORLOCK </s>
<s> LED ON BY SOME RUDIMENTARY ASPIRATIONS TOWARDS RIGHT AND ENCOURAGED BY THE JUDICIOUS STIMULATION OF AN OCCASIONAL TEN POUND NOTE SENT TO HIM BY DEVIOUS METHODS HE HAS ONCE OR TWICE GIVEN ME ADVANCE INFORMATION WHICH HAS BEEN OF VALUE THAT HIGHEST VALUE WHICH ANTICIPATES AND PREVENTS RATHER THAN AVENGES CRIME </s>
<s> I CANNOT DOUBT THAT IF WE HAD THE CIPHER WE SHOULD FIND THAT THIS COMMUNICATION IS OF THE NATURE THAT I INDICATE </s>
<s> AGAIN HOLMES FLATTENED OUT THE PAPER UPON HIS UNUSED PLATE </s>
<s> I ROSE AND LEANING OVER HIM STARED DOWN AT THE CURIOUS INSCRIPTION WHICH RAN AS FOLLOWS FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR C. TWO THIRTEEN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN THIRTY SIX THIRTY ONE FOUR SEVENTEEN TWENTY ONE FORTY ONE DOUGLAS ONE HUNDRED NINE TWO HUNDRED NINETY THREE FIVE THIRTY SEVEN BIRLSTONE TWENTY SIX BIRLSTONE NINE FORTY SEVEN ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY ONE </s>
<s> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT HOLMES </s>
<s> IT IS OBVIOUSLY AN ATTEMPT TO CONVEY SECRET INFORMATION </s>
<s> QUOTE BUT WHAT IS THE USE OF A CIPHER MESSAGE WITHOUT THE CIPHER QUOTE </s>
<s> IN THIS INSTANCE NONE AT ALL </s>
<s> WHY DO YOU SAY IN THIS INSTANCE </s>
<s> BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY CIPHERS WHICH I WOULD READ AS EASILY AS I DO THE APOCRYPHA OF THE AGONY COLUMN SUCH CRUDE DEVICES AMUSE THE INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT FATIGUING IT </s>
<s> BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT </s>
<s> IT IS CLEARLY A REFERENCE TO THE WORDS IN A PAGE OF SOME BOOK </s>
<s> UNTIL I AM TOLD WHICH PAGE AND WHICH BOOK I AM POWERLESS </s>
<s> BUT WHY DOUGLAS AND BIRLSTONE </s>
<s> QUOTE CLEARLY BECAUSE THOSE ARE WORDS WHICH WERE NOT CONTAINED IN THE PAGE IN QUESTION QUOTE </s>
<s> THEN WHY HAS HE NOT INDICATED THE BOOK </s>
<s> YOW NATIVE SHREWDNESS MY DEAR WATSON THAT INNATE CUNNING WHICH IS THE DELIGHT OF YOUR FRIENDS WOULD SURELY PREVENT YOU FROM INCLOSING CIPHER AND MESSAGE IN THE SAME ENVELOPE </s>
<s> SHOULD IT MISCARRY YOU ARE UNDONE </s>
<s> AS IT IS BOTH HAVE TO GO WRONG BEFORE ANY HARM COMES FROM IT </s>
<s> OUR SECOND POST IS NOW OVERDUE AND I SHALL BE SURPRISED IF IT DOES NOT BRING US EITHER A FURTHER LETTER OF EXPLANATION OR AS IS MORE PROBABLE THE VERY VOLUME TO WHICH THESE FIGURES REFER </s>
<s> HOLMES'S CALCULATION WAS FULFILLED WITHIN A VERY FEW MINUTES BY THE APPEARANCE OF BILLY THE PAGE WITH THE VERY LETTER WHICH WE WERE EXPECTING </s>
<s> THE SAME WRITING REMARKED HOLMES AS HE OPENED THE ENVELOPE AND ACTUALLY SIGNED HE ADDED IN AN EXULTANT VOICE AS HE UNFOLDED THE EPISTLE </s>
<s> COME WE ARE GETTING ON WATSON </s>
<s> HIS BROW CLOUDED HOWEVER AS HE GLANCED OVER THE CONTENTS </s>
<s> QUOTE DEAR ME THIS IS VERY DISAPPOINTING </s>
<s> I FEAR WATSON THAT ALL OUR EXPECTATIONS COME TO NOTHING </s>
<s> I TRUST THAT THE MAN PORLOCK WILL COME TO NO HARM </s>
<s> DEAR MR. HOLMES HE SAYS I WILL GO NO FURTHER IN THIS MANER </s>
<s> IT IS TOO DANGEROUS HE SUSPECTS ME </s>
<s> I CAN SEE THAT HE SUSPECTS ME </s>
<s> HE CAME TO ME QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY AFTER I HAD ACTUALLY ADDRESSED THIS ENVE LOPE WITH THE INTENTION OF SENDING YOU THE KEY TO THE CIPHER </s>
<s> I WAS ABLE TO COVER IT UP </s>
<s> IF HE HAD SEEN IT IT WOULD HAVE GONE HARD WITH ME </s>
<s> BUT I READ SUSPICION IN HIS EYES </s>
<s> PLEASE BURN THE CIPHER MESSAGE WHICH CAN NOW BE OF NO USE TO YOU </s>
<s> FRED PORLOCK </s>
<s> HOLMES SAT FOR SOME LITTLE TIME TWISTING THIS LETTER BETWEEN HIS FINGERS AND FROWNING AS HE STARED INTO THE FIRE </s>
<s> AFTER ALL HE SAID AT LAST THERE MAY BE NOTHING IN IT </s>
<s> IT MAY BE ONLY HIS GUILTY CONSCIENCE </s>
<s> KNOWING HIMSELF TO BE A TRAITOR HE MAY HAVE READ THE ACCUSATION IN THE OTHER'S EYES </s>
<s> THE OTHER BEING I PRESUME PROFESSOR MORIARTY </s>
<s> QUOTE NO LESS </s>
<s> WHEN ANY OF THAT PARTY TALK ABOUT HE YOU KNOW WHOM THEY MEAN </s>
<s> THERE IS ONE PREDOMINANT HE FOR ALL OF THEM </s>
<s> BUT WHAT CAN HE DO </s>
<s> HUM </s>
<s> THAT'S A LARGE QUESTION </s>
<s> WHEN YOU HAVE ONE OF THE FIRST BRAINS OF EUROPE UP AGAINST YOU AND ALL THE POWERS OF DARKNESS AT HIS BACK THERE ARE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES </s>
<s> ANYHOW FRIEND PORLOCK IS EVIDENTLY SCARED OUT OF HIS SENSES KINDLY COMPARE THE WRITING IN THE NOTE TO THAT UPON ITS ENVELOPE WHICH WAS DONE HE TELLS US BEFORE THIS ILL OMENED VISIT </s>
<s> THE ONE IS CLEAR AND FIRM </s>
<s> THE OTHER HARDLY LEGIBLE </s>
<s> WHY DID HE WRITE AT ALL </s>
<s> WHY DID HE NOT SIMPLY DROP IT QUOTE </s>
<s> BECAUSE HE FEARED I WOULD MAKE SOME INQUIRY AFTER HIM IN THAT CASE AND POSSIBLY BRING TROUBLE ON HIM </s>
<s> NO DOUBT SAID I. OF COURSE </s>
<s> I HAD PICKED UP THE ORIGINAL CIPHER MESSAGE AND WAS BENDING MY BROWS OVER IT </s>
<s> IT'S PRETTY MADDENING TO THINK THAT AN IMPORTANT SECRET MAY LIE HERE ON THIS SLIP OF PAPER AND THAT IT IS BEYOND HUMAN POWER TO PENETRATE IT </s>
<s> SHERLOCK HOLMES HAD PUSHED AWAY HIS UNTASTED BREAKFAST AND LIT THE UNSAVOURY PIPE WHICH WAS THE COMPANION OF HIS DEEPEST MEDITATIONS </s>
<s> I WONDER SAID HE LEANING BACK AND STARING AT THE CEILING </s>
<s> PERHAPS THERE ARE POINTS WHICH HAVE ESCAPED YOUR MACHIAVELLIAN INTELLECT </s>
<s> LET US CONSIDER THE PROBLEM IN THE LIGHT OF PURE REASON </s>
<s> THIS MAN'S REFERENCE IS TO A BOOK </s>
<s> THAT IS OUR POINT OF DEPARTURE QUOTE </s>
<s> A SOMEWHAT VAGUE ONE </s>
<s> LET US SEE THEN IF WE CAN NARROW IT DOWN </s>
<s> AS I FOCUS MY MIND UPON IT IT SEEMS RATHER LESS IMPENETRABLE </s>
<s> WHAT INDICATIONS HAVE WE AS TO THIS BOOK </s>
<s> NONE </s>
<s> WELL WELL IT IS SURELY NOT QUITE SO BAD AS THAT </s>
<s> THE CIPHER MESSAGE BEGINS WITH A LARGE FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR DOES IT NOT </s>
<s> WE MAY TAKE IT AS A WORKING HYPOTHESIS THAT FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR IS THE PARTICULAR PAGE TO WHICH THE CIPHER REFERS </s>
<s> SO OUR BOOK HAS ALREADY BECOME A LARGE BOOK WHICH IS SURELY SOMETHING GAINED </s>
<s> WHAT OTHER INDICATIONS HAVE WE AS TO THE NATURE OF THIS LARGE BOOK </s>
<s> THE NEXT SIGN IS C. TWO </s>
<s> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT WATSON QUOTE </s>
<s> CHAPTER THE SECOND NO DOUBT </s>
<s> HARDLY THAT WATSON </s>
<s> YOU WILL I AM SURE AGREE WITH ME THAT IF THE PAGE BE GIVEN THE NUMBER OF THE CHAPTER IS IMMATERIAL </s>
<s> ALSO THAT IF PAGE FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR FINDS US ONLY IN THE SECOND CHAPTER THE LENGTH OF THE FIRST ONE MUST HAVE BEEN REALLY INTOLERABLE </s>
<s> COLUMN </s>
<s> I CRIED </s>
<s> BRILLIANT WATSON </s>
<s> YOU ARE SCINTILLATING THIS MORNING </s>
<s> IF IT IS NOT COLUMN THEN I AM VERY MUCH DECEIVED </s>
<s> SO NOW YOU SEE WE BEGIN TO VISUALIZE A LARGE BOOK PRINTED IN DOUBLE COLUMNS WHICH ARE EACH OF A CONSIDERABLE IENGTH SINCE ONE OF THE WORDS IS NUMBERED IN THE DOCUMENT AS THE TWO HUNDRED AND NINETYTHIRD </s>
<s> HAVE WE REACHED THE LIMITS OF WHAT REASON CAN SUPPLY QUOTE </s>
<s> I FEAR THAT WE HAVE </s>
<s> SURELY YOU DO YOURSELF AN INJUSTICE </s>
<s> ONE MORE CORUSCATION MY DEAR WATSON YET ANOTHER BRAIN WAVE </s>
<s> HAD THE VOLUME BEEN AN UNUSUAL ONE HE WOULD HAVE SENT IT TO ME </s>
<s> INSTEAD OF THAT HE HAD INTENDED BEFORE HIS PLANS WERE NIPPED TO SEND ME THE CLUE IN THIS ENVELOPE </s>
<s> HE SAYS SO IN HIS NOTE </s>
<s> THIS WOULD SEEM TO INDICATE THAT THE BOOK IS ONE WHICH HE THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN FINDING FOR MYSELF </s>
<s> HE HAD IT AND HE IMAGINED THAT I WOULD HAVE IT TOO </s>
<s> IN SHORT WATSON IT IS A VERY COMMON BOOK </s>
<s> WHAT YOU SAY CERTAINLY SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE </s>
<s> SO WE HAVE CONTRACTED OUR FIELD OF SEARCH TO A LARGE BOOK PRINTED IN DOUBLE COLUMNS AND IN COMMON USE </s>
<s> QUOTE THE BIBLE QUOTE </s>
<s> I CRIED TRIUMPHANTLY </s>
<s> GOOD WATSON GOOD </s>
<s> BUT NOT IF I MAY SAY SO QUITE GOOD ENOUGH </s>
<s> EVEN IF I ACCEPTED THE COMPLIMENT FOR MYSELF I COULD HARDLY NAME ANY VOLUME WHICH WOULD BE LESS LIKELY TO IIE AT THE ELBOW OF ONE OF MORIARTY'S ASSOCIATES </s>
<s> BESIDES THE EDITIONS OF HOLY WRIT ARE SO NUMEROUS THAT HE COULD HARDLY SUPPOSE THAT TWO COPIES WOULD HAVE THE SAME PAGINATION </s>
<s> THIS IS CLEARLY A BOOK WHICH IS STANDARDIZED </s>
<s> HE KNOWS FOR CERTAIN THAT HIS PAGE FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR WILL EXACTLY AGREE WITH MY PAGE FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR </s>
<s> BUT VERY FEW BOOKS WOULD CORRESPOND WITH THAT </s>
<s> EXACTLY </s>
<s> THEREIN LIES OUR SALVATION </s>
<s> OUR SEARCH IS NARROWED DOWN TO STANDARDIZED BOOKS WHICH ANYONE MAY BE SUPPOSED TO POSSESS </s>
<s> QUOTE BRADSHAW QUOTE </s>
<s> THERE ARE DIFFICULTIES WATSON </s>
<s> THE VOCABULARY OF BRADSHAW IS NERVOUS AND TERSE BUT LIMITED </s>
<s> THE SELECTION OF WORDS WOULD HARDLY LEND ITSELF TO THE SENDING OF GENERAL MESSAGES </s>
<s> WE WILL ELIMINATE BRADSHAW </s>
<s> THE DICTIONARY IS I FEAR INADMISSIBLE FOR THE SAME REASON </s>
<s> WHAT THEN IS LEFT </s>