black_peter.txt

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<s> I HAVE NEVER KNOWN MY FRIEND TO BE IN BETTER FORM BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL THAN IN THE YEAR NINETY FIVE </s>
<s> HIS INCREASING FAME HAD BROUGHT WITH IT AN IMMENSE PRACTICE AND I SHOULD BE GUILTY OF AN INDISCRETION IF I WERE EVEN TO HINT AT THE IDENTITY OF SOME OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENTS WHO CROSSED OUR HUMBLE THRESHOLD IN BAKER STREET </s>
<s> HOLMES HOWEVER LIKE ALL GREAT ARTISTS LIVED FOR HIS ART'S SAKE AND SAVE IN THE CASE OF THE DUKE OF HOLDERNESSE I HAVE SELDOM KNOWN HIM CLAIM ANY LARGE REWARD FOR HIS INESTIMABLE SERVICES </s>
<s> SO UNWORLDLY WAS HE OR SO CAPRICIOUS THAT HE FREQUENTLY REFUSED HIS HELP TO THE POWERFUL AND WEALTHY WHERE THE PROBLEM MADE NO APPEAL TO HIS SYMPATHIES WHILE HE WOULD DEVOTE WEEKS OF MOST INTENSE APPLICATION TO THE AFFAIRS OF SOME HUMBLE CLIENT WHOSE CASE PRESENTED THOSE STRANGE AND DRAMATIC QUALITIES WHICH APPEALED TO HIS IMAGINATION AND CHALLENGED HIS INGENUITY </s>
<s> IN THIS MEMORABLE YEAR NINETY FIVE A CURIOUS AND INCONGRUOUS SUCCESSION OF CASES HAD ENGAGED HIS ATTENTION RANGING FROM HIS FAMOUS INVESTIGATION OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF CARDINAL TOSCA AN INQUIRY WHICH WAS CARRIED OUT BY HIM AT THE EXPRESS DESIRE OF HIS HOLINESS THE POPE DOWN TO HIS ARREST OF WILSON THE NOTORIOUS CANARY TRAINER WHICH REMOVED A PLAGUE SPOT FROM THE EAST END OF LONDON </s>
<s> CLOSE ON THE HEELS OF THESE TWO FAMOUS CASES CAME THE TRAGEDY OF WOODMAN'S LEE AND THE VERY OBSCURE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH SURROUNDED THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN PETER CAREY </s>
<s> NO RECORD OF THE DOINGS OF MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES WOULD BE COMPLETE WHICH DID NOT INCLUDE SOME ACCOUNT OF THIS VERY UNUSUAL AFFAIR </s>
<s> DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF JULY MY FRIEND HAD BEEN ABSENT SO OFTEN AND SO LONG FROM OUR LODGINGS THAT I KNEW HE HAD SOMETHING ON HAND </s>
<s> THE FACT THAT SEVERAL ROUGH LOOKING MEN CALLED DURING THAT TIME AND INQUIRED FOR CAPTAIN BASIL MADE ME UNDERSTAND THAT HOLMES WAS WORKING SOMEWHERE UNDER ONE OF THE NUMEROUS DISGUISES AND NAMES WITH WHICH HE CONCEALED HIS OWN FORMIDABLE IDENTITY </s>
<s> HE HAD AT LEAST FIVE SMALL REFUGES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF LONDON IN WHICH HE WAS ABLE TO CHANGE HIS PERSONALITY </s>
<s> HE SAID NOTHING OF HIS BUSINESS TO ME AND IT WAS NOT MY HABIT TO FORCE A CONFIDENCE </s>
<s> THE FIRST POSITIVE SIGN WHICH HE GAVE ME OF THE DIRECTION WHICH HIS INVESTIGATION WAS TAKING WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY ONE </s>
<s> HE HAD GONE OUT BEFORE BREAKFAST AND I HAD SAT DOWN TO MINE WHEN HE STRODE INTO THE ROOM HIS HAT UPON HIS HEAD AND A HUGE BARBED HEADED SPEAR TUCKED LIKE AN UMBRELLA UNDER HIS ARM </s>
<s> QUOTE GOOD GRACIOUS HOLMES QUOTE </s>
<s> I CRIED </s>
<s> YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WALKING ABOUT LONDON WITH THAT THING </s>
<s> I DROVE TO THE BUTCHER'S AND BACK </s>
<s> THE BUTCHER'S </s>
<s> AND I RETURN WITH AN EXCELLENT APPETITE </s>
<s> THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION MY DEAR WATSON OF THE VALUE OF EXERCISE BEFORE BREAKFAST </s>
<s> BUT I AM PREPARED TO BET THAT YOU WILL NOT GUESS THE FORM THAT MY EXERCISE HAS TAKEN </s>
<s> QUOTE I WILL NOT ATTEMPT IT QUOTE </s>
<s> HE CHUCKLED AS HE POURED OUT THE COFFEE </s>
<s> IF YOU COULD HAVE LOOKED INTO ALLARDYCE'S BACK SHOP YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN A DEAD PIG SWUNG FROM A HOOK IN THE CEILING AND A GENTLEMAN IN HIS SHIRT SLEEVES FURIOUSLY STABBING AT IT WITH THIS WEAPON </s>
<s> I WAS THAT ENERGETIC PERSON AND I HAVE SATISFIED MYSELF THAT BY NO EXERTION OF MY STRENGTH CAN I TRANSFIX THE PIG WITH A SINGLE BLOW </s>
<s> PERHAPS YOU WOULD CARE TO TRY </s>
<s> NOT FOR WORLDS </s>
<s> BUT WHY WERE YOU DOING THIS </s>
<s> BECAUSE IT SEEMED TO ME TO HAVE AN INDIRECT BEARING UPON THE MYSTERY OF WOODMAN'S LEE </s>
<s> AH HOPKINS I GOT YOUR WIRE LAST NIGHT AND I HAVE BEEN EXPECTING YOU </s>
<s> COME AND JOIN US QUOTE </s>
<s> OUR VISITOR WAS AN EXCEEDINGLY ALERT MAN THIRTY YEARS OF AGE DRESSED IN A QUIET TWEED SUIT BUT RETAINING THE ERECT BEARING OF ONE WHO WAS ACCUSTOMED TO OFFICIAL UNIFORM </s>
<s> I RECOGNIZED HIM AT ONCE AS STANLEY HOPKINS A YOUNG POLICE INSPECTOR FOR WHOSE FUTURE HOLMES HAD HIGH HOPES WHILE HE IN TURN PROFESSED THE ADMIRATION AND RESPECT OF A PUPIL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC METHODS OF THE FAMOUS AMATEUR </s>
<s> HOPKINS'S BROW WAS CLOUDED AND HE SAT DOWN WITH AN AIR OF DEEP DEJECTION </s>
<s> NO THANK YOU SIR </s>
<s> I BREAKFASTED BEFORE I CAME ROUND </s>
<s> I SPENT THE NIGHT IN TOWN FOR I CAME UP YESTERDAY TO REPORT </s>
<s> AND WHAT HAD YOU TO REPORT </s>
<s> FAILURE SIR ABSOLUTE FAILURE </s>
<s> YOU HAVE MADE NO PROGRESS </s>
<s> QUOTE NONE QUOTE </s>
<s> DEAR ME </s>
<s> I MUST HAVE A LOOK AT THE MATTER </s>
<s> I WISH TO HEAVENS THAT YOU WOULD MR. HOLMES </s>
<s> IT'S MY FIRST BIG CHANCE AND I AM AT MY WIT'S END </s>
<s> FOR GOODNESS' SAKE COME DOWN AND LEND ME A HAND </s>
<s> WELL WELL IT JUST HAPPENS THAT I HAVE ALREADY READ ALL THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE INCLUDING THE REPORT OF THE INQUEST WITH SOME CARE </s>
<s> BY THE WAY WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT TOBACCO POUCH FOUND ON THE SCENE OF THE CRIME </s>
<s> IS THERE NO CLUE THERE QUOTE </s>
<s> HOPKINS LOOKED SURPRISED </s>
<s> IT WAS THE MAN'S OWN POUCH SIR </s>
<s> HIS INITIALS WERE INSIDE IT </s>
<s> AND IT WAS OF SEALSKIN AND HE WAS AN OLD SEALER </s>
<s> BUT HE HAD NO PIPE </s>
<s> NO SIR WE COULD FIND NO PIPE </s>
<s> INDEED HE SMOKED VERY LITTLE AND YET HE MIGHT HAVE KEPT SOME TOBACCO FOR HIS FRIENDS </s>
<s> QUOTE NO DOUBT </s>
<s> I ONLY MENTION IT BECAUSE IF I HAD BEEN HANDLING THE CASE I SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLINED TO MAKE THAT THE STARTINGPOINT OF MY INVESTIGATION </s>
<s> HOWEVER MY FRIEND DOCTOR WATSON KNOWS NOTHING OF THIS MATTER AND I SHOULD BE NONE THE WORSE FOR HEARING THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS ONCE MORE </s>
<s> JUST GIVE US SOME SHORT SKETCHES OF THE ESSENTIALS </s>
<s> STANLEY HOPKINS DREW A SLIP OF PAPER FROM HIS POCKET </s>
<s> I HAVE A FEW DATES HERE WHICH WILL GIVE YOU THE CAREER OF THE DEAD MAN CAPTAIN PETER CAREY </s>
<s> HE WAS BOM IN FORTY FIVE FIFTY YEARS OF AGE </s>
<s> HE WAS A MOST DARING AND SUCCESSFUL SEAL AND WHALE FISHER </s>
<s> IN ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY THREE HE COMMANDED THE STEAM SEALER SEA UNICORN OF DUNDEE </s>
<s> HE HAD THEN HAD SEVERAL SUCCESSFUL VOYAGES IN SUCCESSION AND IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR HE RETIRED </s>
<s> AFTER THAT HE TRAVELLED FOR SOME YEARS AND FINALLY HE BOUGHT A SMALL PLACE CALLED WOODMAN'S LEE NEAR FOREST ROW IN SUSSEX </s>
<s> THERE HE HAS LIVED FOR SIX YEARS AND THERE HE DIED JUST A WEEK AGO TO DAY </s>
<s> THERE WERE SOME MOST SINGULAR POINTS ABOUT THE MAN </s>
<s> IN ORDINARY LIFE HE WAS A STRICT PURITAN A SILENT GLOOMY FELLOW </s>
<s> HIS HOUSEHOLD CONSISTED OF HIS WIFE HIS DAUGHTER AGED TWENTY AND TWO FEMALE SERVANTS </s>
<s> THESE LAST WERE CONTINUALLY CHANGING FOR IT WAS NEVER A VERY CHEERY SITUATION AND SOMETIMES IT BECAME PAST ALL BEARING </s>
<s> THE MAN WAS AN INTERMITTENT DRUNKARD AND WHEN HE HAD THE FIT ON HIM HE WAS A PERFECT FIEND </s>
<s> HE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO DRIVE HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER OUT OF DOORS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND FLOG THEM THROUGH THE PARK UNTIL THE WHOLE VILLAGE OUTSIDE THE GATES WAS AROUSED BY THEIR SCREAMS </s>
<s> HE WAS SUMMONED ONCE FOR A SAVAGE ASSAULT UPON THE OLD VICAR WHO HAD CALLED UPON HIM TO REMONSTRATE WITH HIM UPON HIS CONDUCT </s>
<s> IN SHORT MR. HOLMES YOU WOULD GO FAR BEFORE YOU FOUND A MORE DANGEROUS MAN THAN PETER CAREY AND I HAVE HEARD THAT HE BORE THE SAME CHARACTER WHEN HE COMMANDED HIS SHIP </s>
<s> HE WAS KNOWN IN THE TRADE AS BLACK PETER AND THE NAME WAS GIVEN HIM NOT ONLY ON ACCOUNT OF HIS SWARTHY FEATURES AND THE COLOUR OF HIS HUGE BEARD BUT FOR THE HUMOURS WHICH WERE THE TERROR OF ALL AROUND HIM </s>
<s> I NEED NOT SAY THAT HE WAS LOATHED AND AVOIDED BY EVERY ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOURS AND THAT I HAVE NOT HEARD ONE SINGLE WORD OF SORROW ABOUT HIS TERRIBLE END </s>
<s> YOU MUST HAVE READ IN THE ACCOUNT OF THE INQUEST ABOUT THE MAN'S CABIN MR. HOLMES BUT PERHAPS YOUR FRIEND HERE HAS NOT HEARD OF IT </s>
<s> HE HAD BUILT HIMSELF A WOODEN OUTHOUSE HE ALWAYS CALLED IT THE CABIN' A FEW HUNDRED YARDS FROM HIS HOUSE AND IT WAS HERE THAT HE SLEPT EVERY NIGHT </s>
<s> IT WAS A LITTLE SINGLE ROOMED HUT SIXTEEN FEET BY TEN </s>
<s> HE KEPT THE KEY IN HIS POCKET MADE HIS OWN BED CLEANED IT HIMSELF AND ALLOWED NO OTHER FOOT TO CROSS THE THRESHOLD </s>
<s> THERE ARE SMALL WINDOWS ON EACH SIDE WHICH WERE COVERED BY CURTAINS AND NEVER OPENED </s>
<s> ONE OF THESE WINDOWS WAS TURNED TOWARDS THE HIGH ROAD AND WHEN THE LIGHT BURNED IN IT AT NIGHT THE FOLK USED TO POINT IT OUT TO EACH OTHER AND WONDER WHAT BLACK PETER WAS DOING IN THERE </s>
<s> THAT'S THE WINDOW MR. HOLMES WHICH GAVE US ONE OF THE FEW BITS OF POSITIVE EVIDENCE THAT CAME OUT AT THE INQUEST </s>
<s> QUOTE YOU REMEMBER THAT A STONEMASON NAMED SLATER WALKING FROM FOREST ROW ABOUT ONE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING TWO DAYS BEFORE THE MURDER STOPPED AS HE PASSED THE GROUNDS AND LOOKED AT THE SQUARE OF LIGHT STILL SHINING AMONG THE TREES </s>
<s> HE SWEARS THAT THE SHADOW OF A MAN'S HEAD TURNED SIDEWAYS WAS CLEARLY VISIBLE ON THE BLIND AND THAT THIS SHADOW WALS CERTAINLY NOT THAT OF PETER CAREY WHOM HE KNEW WELL </s>
<s> IT WAS THAT OF A BEARDED MAN BUT THE BEARD WAS SHORT AND BRISTLED FORWARD IN A WAY VERY DIFFERRNT FROM THAT OF THE CAPTAIN </s>
<s> SO HE SAYS BUT HE HAD BEEN TWO HOURS IN THE PUBLIC HOUSE AND IT IS SOME DISTANCE FROM THE ROAD TO THE WINDOW </s>
<s> BESIDES THIS REFERS TO THE MONDAY AND THE CRIME WAS DONE UPON THE WEDNESDAY </s>
<s> ON THE TUESDAY PETER CAREY WAS IN ONE OF HIS BLACKEST MOODS FLUSHED WITH DRINK AND AS SAVAGE AS A DANGEROUS WILD BEAST </s>
<s> HE ROAMED ABOUT THE HOUSE AND THE WOMEN RAN FOR IT WHEN THEY HEARD HIM COMING </s>
<s> LATE IN THE EVENING HE WENT DOWN TO HIS OWN HUT </s>
<s> ABOUT TWO O'CLOCK THE FOLLOWING MORNING HIS DAUGHTER WHO SLEPT WITH HER WINDOW OPEN HEARD A MOST FEARFUL YELL FROM THAT DIRECTION BUT IT WAS NO UNUSUAL THING FOR HIM TO BAWL AND SHOUT WHEN HE WAS IN DRINK SO NO NOTICE WAS TAKEN </s>
<s> ON RISING ST SEVEN ONE OF THE MAIDS NOTICED THAT THE DOOR OF THE HUT WAS OPEN BUT SO GREAT WAS THE TERROR WHICH THE MAN CAUSED THAT IT WAS MIDDAY BEFORE ANYONE WOULD VENTURE DOWN TO SEE WHAT BAD BECOME OF HIM </s>
<s> PEEPING INTO THE OPEN DOOR THEY SAW A SIGHT WHICH SENT THEM FLYING WITH WHITE FACES INTO THE VILLAGE </s>
<s> WITHIN AN HOUR I WAS ON THE SPOT AND HAD TAKEN OVER THE CASE </s>
<s> WELL I HAVE FAIRLY STEADY NERVES AS YOU KNOW MR. HOLMES BUT I GIVE YOU MY WORD THAT I GOT A SHAKE WHEN I PUT MY HEAD INTO THAT LITTLE HOUSE </s>
<s> IT WAS DRONING LIKE A HARMONIUM WITH THE FLIES AND BLUEBOTTLES AND THE FLOOR AND WALLS WERE LIKE A SLAUGHTER HOUSE </s>
<s> HE HAD CALLED IT A CABIN AND A CABIN IT WAS SURE ENOUGH FOR YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE IN A SHIP </s>
<s> THERE WAS A BUNK AT ONE END A SEA CHEST MAPS AND CHARTS A PICTURE OF THE SEA UNICORIN A LINE OF LOGBOOKS ON A SHELF ALL EXACTLY AS ONE WOULD EXPECT TO FIND IT IN A CAPTAIN'S ROOM </s>
<s> AND THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT WAS THE MAN HIMSELF HIS FACE TWISTED LIKE A LOST SOUL IN TORNMENT AND HIS GREAT BRINDLED BEARD STUCK UPWARD IN HIS AGONY </s>
<s> RIGHT THROUGH HIS BROAD BREAST A STEEL TARPOON HAD BEEN DRIVEN AND IT HAD SUNK DEEP INTO THE WOOD OF THE WALL BEHIND HIM </s>
<s> HE WAS PINNED LIKE A BEETLE ON A CARD </s>
<s> OF COURSE HE WAS QUITE DEAD AND HAD BEEN SO FROM THE INSTANT THAT HE HAD UTTERED THAT LAST YELL OF AGONY </s>
<s> I KNOW YOUR METHODS SIR AND I APPLIED THEM </s>
<s> BEFORE I PERMITTED ANYTHING TO BE MOVED I EXAMINED MOST CAREFULLY THE GROUND OUTSIDE AND ALSO THE FLOOR OF THE ROOM </s>
<s> THERE WERE NO FOOTMARKS </s>
<s> MEANING THAT YOU SAW NONE </s>
<s> QUOTE I ASSURE YOU SIR THAT THERE WERE NONE QUOTE </s>
<s> MY GOOD HOPKINS I HAVE INVESTIGATED MANY CRIMES BUT I HAVE NEVER YET SEEN ONE WHICH WAS COMMITED BY A FLYING CREATURE </s>
<s> AS LONG AS THE CRIMINAL REMAINS UPON TWO LEGS SO LONG MUST THERE BE SOME INDENTATION SOME ABRASION SOME TRIFLING DISPLACEMENT WHICH CAN BE DETECTED BY THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCHER </s>
<s> IT IS INCREDIBLE THAT THIS BLOOD BESPATTERED ROOM CONTAINED NO TRACE WHICH COULD HAVE AIDED US </s>
<s> I UNDERSTAND HOWEVER FROM THE INQUEST THAT THERE WERE SOME OBJECTS WHICH YOU FAILED TO OVERLOOK </s>
<s> THE YOUNG INSPECTOR WINCED AT MY COMPANION'S IRONICAL COMMENTS </s>
<s> I WAS A FOOL NOT TO CALL YOU IN AT THE TIME MR. HOLMES </s>
<s> HOWEVER THAT'S PAST PRAYING FOR NOW </s>
<s> YES THERE WERE SEVERAL OBJECTS IN THE ROOM WHICH CALLED FOR SPECIAL ATTENTION </s>
<s> ONE WAS THE HARPOON WITH WHICH THE DEED WAS COMMITTED </s>
<s> IT HAD BEEN SNATCHED DOWN FROM A RACK ON THE WALL </s>
<s> TWO OTHERS REMAINED THERE AND THERE WAS A VACANT PLACE FOR THE THIRD </s>
<s> ON THE STOCK WAS ENGRAVED S. S. </s>
<s> SEA UNICORN DUNDEE </s>
<s> THIS SEEMED TO ESTABLISH THAT THE CRIME HAD BEEN DONE IN A MOMENT OF FURY AND THAT THE MURDERER HAD SEIZED THE FIRST WEAPON WHICH CAME IN HIS WAY </s>
<s> THE FACT THAT THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED AT TWO IN THE MORNING AND YET PETER CAREY WAS FULLY DRESSED SUGGESTED THAT HE HAD AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE MURDERER WHICH IS BORNE OUT BY THE FACT THAT A BOTTLE OF RUM AND TWO DIRTY GLASSES STOOD UPON THE TABLE </s>
<s> YES SAID HOLMES I THINK THAT BOTH INFERENCES ARE PERMISSABLE </s>
<s> WAS THERE ANY OTHER SPIRIT BUT RUM IN THE ROOM QUOTE </s>
<s> YES THERE WAS A TANTALUS CONTAINING BRANDY AND WHISKY ON THE SEA CHEST </s>
<s> IT IS OF NO IMPORTANCE TO US HOWEVER SINCE THE DECANTERS WERE FULL AND IT HAD THEREFORE NOT BEEN USED </s>
<s> FOR ALL THAT ITS PRESENCE HAD SOME SIGNIFICANCE SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> HOWEVER LET US HEAR SOME MORE ABOUT THE OBJECTS WHICH DO SEEM TO YOU TO BEAR UPON THE CASE </s>
<s> THERE WAS THE TOBACCO POUCH UPON THE TABLE </s>
<s> QUOTE WHAT PART OF THE TABLE QUOTE </s>
<s> IT LAY IN THE MIDDLE </s>
<s> IT WAS OF COARSE SEALSKIN THE STRAIGHTHAIRED SKIN WITH A LEATHER THONG TO BIND IT </s>
<s> INSIDE WAS P. C. ON THE FLAP </s>
<s> THERE WAS HALF AN OUNCE OF STRONG SHIP'S TOBACCO IN IT </s>
<s> EXCELLENT </s>