He looked about him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety.
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August 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
He looked about him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety.
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“I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every way in my mind without being able to make anything of it.
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August 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every way in my mind without being able to make anything of it.
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August 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.
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and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.
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August 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.
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“If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more likely to be some crony of the landlady’s.”
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August 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more likely to be some crony of the landlady’s.”
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At the time of the war he fought in Jackson’s army, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where he remained for three or four years.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
At the time of the war he fought in Jackson’s army, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where he remained for three or four years.
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of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.
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August 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.
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“‘Pooh!’ said he, gripping hard at his courage. ‘We are in a civilised land here, and we can’t have tomfoolery of this kind. Where does the thing come from?’
“‘From Dundee,’ I answered, glancing at the postmark.
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“‘From Dundee,’ I answered, glancing at the postmark.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“‘Pooh!’ said he, gripping hard at his courage. ‘We are in a civilised land here, and we can’t have tomfoolery of this kind. Where does the thing come from?’
“‘From Dundee,’ I answered, glancing at the postmark.
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“‘From Dundee,’ I answered, glancing at the postmark.
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His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he still held in his trembling hand, ‘K. K. K.!’ he shrieked, and then, ‘My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!’
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August 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he still held in his trembling hand, ‘K. K. K.!’ he shrieked, and then, ‘My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!’
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These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw.
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Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag politicians who had been sent down from the North.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag politicians who had been sent down from the North.
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which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other.
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“You fill me with interest,” said Holmes. “Pray give us the essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards question you as to those details which seem to me to be most important.”
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August 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“You fill me with interest,” said Holmes. “Pray give us the essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards question you as to those details which seem to me to be most important.”
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“‘No, I forbid you. I won’t have a fuss made about such nonsense.’
“It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings.
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“It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“‘No, I forbid you. I won’t have a fuss made about such nonsense.’
“It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings.
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“It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings.
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“That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is quite distinctive.”
“I have come for advice.”
“That is easily got.”
“And help.”
“That is not always so easy.”
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“I have come for advice.”
“That is easily got.”
“And help.”
“That is not always so easy.”
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August 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is quite distinctive.”
“I have come for advice.”
“That is easily got.”
“And help.”
“That is not always so easy.”
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“I have come for advice.”
“That is easily got.”
“And help.”
“That is not always so easy.”
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At such times I have seen his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it were new raised from a basin.
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August 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
At such times I have seen his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it were new raised from a basin.
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“It is no ordinary one.”
“None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal.”
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“None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal.”
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August 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“It is no ordinary one.”
“None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal.”
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“None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal.”
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I answer, because I was well convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an incident in my uncle’s life, and that the danger would be as pressing in one house as in another.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I answer, because I was well convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an incident in my uncle’s life, and that the danger would be as pressing in one house as in another.
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we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.
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August 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.
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a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them present such singular features as the strange train of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe.
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August 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them present such singular features as the strange train of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe.
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In that, however, I was in error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram from the major, imploring me to come at once.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In that, however, I was in error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram from the major, imploring me to come at once.
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And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been woven round him.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been woven round him.
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so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair.
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“The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks later, upon the night of May 2nd.”
“Thank you. Pray proceed.”
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“Thank you. Pray proceed.”
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August 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks later, upon the night of May 2nd.”
“Thank you. Pray proceed.”
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“Thank you. Pray proceed.”
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