zh-CNiwms.net pic/logo.gif http://www.enun.cn Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:53 GMT Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:52 GMT "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question was already answered.
"Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It is so. I know all about McCarthy....]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:51 GMT "Certainly....]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:49 GMT Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:48 GMT "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth.
"And that is--"
"That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and...]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:47 GMT "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his very best and keenest...]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:46 GMT "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I was conce...]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:45 GMT Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:44 GMT "Witness: 'He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some allusion to a rat.'
"The Coroner: 'What did you understand by that?'
"Witness: 'It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was delirious.'
"The Coroner: 'W...]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:43 GMT "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which characterizes you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle...]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:42 GMT Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:41 GMT The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way:
Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley t...]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:40 GMT "It may be so, or it may not. Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is you who are breaking the law now, and not me....]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:22:39 GMT "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some letters get more worn than ot...]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:47:04 GMT "They are typewritten," I remarked.
...]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:47:03 GMT Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:47:02 GMT Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:47:00 GMT "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in Leadenhall Street--and--"
"What office?"
"That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know."
"Where did h...]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:46:58 GMT "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can only touch the interest."
"You interest...]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:46:54 GMT Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed upon the...]]>