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It is regrettable, however, that people know Sir Conan Doyle entirely as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, when his best work has really been done in other novels, such as The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, Rodney Stone, The White Company, and Beyond the City. His late works include plays as well as numerous novels. It is noteworthy that in all his writings women have played but little part.
Bonnie and Priscilla stared at each other without a word, and as Miss Henderson was led away to the remnants of her audience Patty suddenly appeared. "Good evening, Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Did you solve your mystery?" she asked sweetly. Priscilla turned her to the light and scrutinized her face. Patty smiled back with wide-open, innocent eyes.
Mortimer were ready upon the appointed day, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr. Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station and gave me his last parting injunctions and advice. "I will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson," said he; "I wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possible manner to me, and you can leave me to do the theorizing."
As the window from which he had descended came into range he stared, loose-jawed. Then be chuckled, as thoroughbred adventurers generally chuckle when they find themselves at the bottom of the sack, the mouth of which has simultaneously and automatically closed. Wasn't he the brainy old top? Wasn't he Sherlock Holmes plus? Old fool, how the devil was he going to get back through that window?
President of the Council Sherlock J. Andrews. Aldermen Richard Hilliard, Joshua Mills, Nicholas Dockstader. Councilmen 1st Ward Morris Hepburn, John R. St. John, William V. Craw. 2d Ward Sherlock J. Andrews, Henry L. Noble, Edward Baldwin. 3d Ward Aaron T. Strickland, Horace Canfield, Archibald M. C. Smith. Mayor John W. Willey. President of the Council Joshua Mills.
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. What does Dr. James Mortimer, the man of science, ask of Sherlock Holmes, the specialist in crime? Come in!" The appearance of our visitor was a surprise to me, since I had expected a typical country practitioner.
In the year 1717, the English House of Lords entertained and decided, as a court of last resort, an appeal from the Irish courts, already passed on by the Irish Lords, in the famous real-estate case of Annesley versus Sherlock. The proceeding was novel, and was protested against in the English House at the time by the Duke of Leeds, and in the Irish, by the majority of the whole House.
"Just say she wants us to take the parts of fourteen Lady Sherlock Holmeses in a Juvenile drama in real life." "Very cleverly expressed," Miss Ladd remarked admiringly. "Detective is entirely too coarse a term to apply to any of my Camp Fire Girls and I won't stand for it." "We might call ourselves special agents, operatives, secret emissaries, or mystery probers," Harriet Newcomb suggested.
I, sir, am the only tangible result of Lord Dorrington's retainers to Sherlock Holmes." "You speak enigmatically, after the occasional fashion of your illustrious father," said I. "The Dorrington case is unfamiliar to me."
"I would give a hundred pounds," he whispered, "if I could place in his hands at this moment a new story of Sherlock Holmes a thousand pounds," he added wildly "five thousand pounds!" The American observed the speaker sharply, as though the words bore to him some special application, and then at an idea which apparently had but just come to him, smiled in great embarrassment.
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