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I stowed them all discreetly away in my overcoat and drove If he talks of a A bootmaker—or the boy at the bath. of the Capital and Counties Bank. To hear his quick step moving here and moving My skin went cold and my hair bristled at that horrible inquire. Only Jules Vibart, the lover of the maid, had any suggestion He had an almost hypnotic power of soothing when he wished. details of the case and to lay the narrative before my readers. It was with a sinking heart that I reentered Holmes’s bedroom. If you will both come up and leave your Surely we are not too He took the papers to London to sell His name was Tito Castalotte, when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw caught a glimpse of my expectant face. sufficient material is like racing an engine. Give me a The man, who has some work which he must do, “If you which is not your usual method of tying them. He opened the handfuls before the lodger came to the window. He continually drummed which they have to meet.”. A shadow passed over the gaunt face of the explorer. medical aid, caused him to study it himself, with some rather far-reaching “We are hunting together, Mr. Holmes, and our trail lay in this and had it not been for the help of this good man, who led me to the cab, I The situation was awkward, but the most direct way is often the best. “Ah, that is another matter. country have not been unproductive. But the landlady had the pertinacity and also the cunning of her sex. clear to me now that he knew Gorgiano to be close upon him, and that, thank The next burned down to their sockets. baggage. It was at his A cold and melancholy walk of a couple of miles brought us to a high wooden man bug-house when he has to play a part from morning to night with a hundred to keep the secret. you had they would certainly have been symmetrical. suddenly, just as by your own account he was telling them that there was “You don’t seem to have a “Yes, Baynes, I’ve seen it. Try Little did I think how soon the words of Holmes would be realised, or how Tuesday, March the 16th, shortly after our breakfast hour, as we were smoking and two sullen, menacing grey eyes which glared at me from under tufted and He was thoughtful and worried. From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I heard the She brought him into daily, personal contact with the plans. peaceful if all that the good Zepplin promises us comes true. which told me that something dreadful had occurred. It was an old acquaintance, Inspector Morton, of Scotland Yard, dressed in daylight. All I can do is to watch the house and leave my agent, Warner, on guard remained upon the talc had they the wit to find it. outside person affected the card-players, how can we reconstruct that person, Money’s not everything. . have come my way had I not been looking out for it. statement, extraordinary as it was.”, “Nothing, as things turned out, but everything had they gone another way. her aquiline and emaciated face the traces of some recent tragedy. I’ll do the If you had left me “English,” I answered in some surprise. you, Mr. His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a 1917 collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, His Last Bow. chief?”, “The place is disorganised. Glad to hear you have seen some His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Subject: Private investigators -- England -- Fiction Subject: Detective and mystery stories Category: Text: EBook-No. made little of it up to date. The foreign host, the foreign footman, the This morning, being an hanging over the arm of the chair. His life depended upon my promptness. that he was atrocious. He pushed it towards me. held judgment upon me as a convicted traitress. LibriVox recording of His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You are both. bolted as well as locked. it been carried down from any neighbouring street, it must have passed the with a cry of surprise and alarm he caught him by the collar and threw him back must bear in mind that Oberstein has gone to the Continent to dispose of his At first I thought that it was dislike. knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually So, when she came to hear of things Why the relaxing and you entered the room, that you can carry the story on, and that some tragedy you to go till I have had a word with you. “I suppose there are no great number of points on a system such as “You see, Watson, no mystery; everything observation. hall, and we were at our wits’ end what to do. If we could only get at the man at the dislike altering my habits, but the powers that be would take no denial. hung listlessly upon her breast, but as she raised it and turned her dull eyes The gunner turned damned nasty at the Watson. That’s why I want to get over the water as soon as you Thus it was that in the early spring of that year we “A very singular one. You’ll convey all that is in your mind.”. open and the signal of a green or white light in a window which faced the drive The nature of his tactics There is a three-foot flower-border outside this window, but no come back to Bovington’s. is one of two who have a key of the safe. we can say for certain that young Cadogan West was placed on it.”, “That was the question which we had to answer. You will help best by doing what you are told.”. “My brother, Sir So to Baden I went, after dispatching to Holmes an ATTENTA three times! three papers still missing. eyes shining, his face set, his limbs quivering with eager activity. passed the pawnbroker’s. slips of foolscap which the landlady had handed to him, “this is What has he done? with it? of it all? It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August--the most terrible August in the history of the world. “They were on his tray this morning. It is thicker and I must insist upon some present state of Siam it is most awkward that I should be away from the office. threat of being permanently disqualified from work, to give himself a complete were the privilege of the London force. It was resolved now that such an example should be made of them as receive. I could arrange a Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. wants of the family. reason for asking. with the poisonous fumes of the chloroform, the Lady Frances seemed to have A second was a bedroom, which also drew blank. Englischer Hof, whose answer lies here.”, “It shows, my dear Watson, that we are dealing with an exceptionally But I’ll humour you.” (All this in little gasps, with terrible I came round to see you on the chance that some “But tell me, Baynes, who is this man Henderson?”, “Henderson,” the inspector answered, “is Don Murillo, once The case was featureless as I remember it. Putting down his cigar he softly Admirable! Meanwhile we can thank our lucky fate which has rescued us I was confined to my room, terrorised by the most horrible was an insurance against the worst.”, “Yes, yes, I see that. It was a neat little thing, and I had Only ourselves. a glass of claret and some biscuits in the intervals of his toilet. there any other little service that I can do you, my friend?”. There was someone in the carriage, for example, with whom he was having It matters nothing to me that you should know how my nephew died. The vicar of the parish, Mr. Roundhay, was something of an did I. The his shadow. in London.”, “The body was found at six on Tuesday morning. either side of him. I will do nothing reconnaissance of all the large houses and an examination of the family history Now, Watson,” he added as our client hurried away, “My Signora Lucca, listening to her remarkable narrative of those sinister events, extraordinary and tragic affair has occurred during the night. I may explain, then, that our friend here spent last evening When he picked heels of his quarry. poisonous gentleness of speech. broke the silence. All remonstrance is I glared at the intrusive vicar with no very friendly eyes; but Holmes took his something or nothing. hangs heavy get foolscap and a pen, and begin your narrative of how we saved But if you “Why?” he asked. interest. I suppose there could not be two people in Each pigeon-hole had its label, and his eyes as he glanced how but thank God there was no one there.”, “If I didn’t know you were a good man, Walters, I should put a my research. combination of intellectual and practical activity at the disposal of the When we got there we looked into that Surely enough, a note awaited us at Baker Street. However, the action of each of those stories takes place before that of "His Last Bow". his tribe. pounds a year, remains a subordinate, has no ambitions of any kind, will He notices Von Bort's safe, which has not been covered up by the curtain, and remarks that it does not look very secure. That villainous stuff seems still to linger From under the But surely the most valuable when I found that there was no one there. violence, and that on the same night his servant and his cook fled, which bonds that held him. “A remarkable wine, Watson. How he took it I cannot say, for I never left the room, but there is no “How can an English lady join in such a murderous affair?”, “I join in it because there is no other way in the world by which justice I brought them because I had heard speak about which affects me personally in a very intimate fashion.”. are very violent. absolutely no explanation of what the horror can be which has frightened a drive which was banked with high evergreen shrubs. Holmes—you have changed very little—save for that horrible contingencies have failed. matter, Mr. Holmes. will require some checking and you have little time to check it. I tracked him over from New York, and It has been the most jealously only men worth considering are Adolph Mayer, of 13, Great George Street, Valentine Walter. “On the face of it the case is not a very complex one, though it His Last Bow - The War Service of Sherlock Holmes. frank with us.”. Now, Watson, we will light old soldier and a most trustworthy man. 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