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Mrs. Straker awoke at seven in the morning to find that her husband had not yet returned. She dressed herself hastily, called the maid, and set off for the stables. The door was open; inside, huddled together upon a chair, Hunter was sunk in a state
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Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible. I shall now recapitulate what the police have done in the matter. Inspector Gregory, to whom the case has been committed, is an extremely competent offic
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I had listened with the greatest interest to the statement which Holmes, with characteristic clearness, had laid before me. Though most of the facts were familiar to me, I had not sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connecti
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银色马 09
It was evening before we reached the little town of Tavistock, which lies, like the boss of a shield, in the middle of the huge circle of Dartmoor. Two gentlemen were awaiting us in the station the one a tall, fair man with lion-like hair and beard a
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The net is drawn pretty close round Fitzroy Simpson, he remarked, and I believe myself that he is our man. At the same time I recognize that the evidence is purely circumstantial, and that some new development may upset it. How about Strakers knife?
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We have found traces which show that a party of gypsies encamped on Monday night within a mile of the spot where the murder took place. On Tuesday they were gone. Now, presuming that there was some understanding between Simpson and these gypsies, mig
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Excuse me, said he, turning to Colonel Ross, who had looked at him in some surprise. I was day-dreaming. There was a gleam in his eyes and a suppressed excitement in his manner which convinced me, used as I was to his ways, that his hand was upon a c
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This is a very singular knife, said Holmes, lifting it up and examining it minutely. I presume, as I see blood-stains upon it, that it is the one which was found in the dead mans grasp. Watson, this knife is surely in your line? It is what we call a
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As we emerged from the sitting-room a woman, who had been waiting in the passage, took a step forward and laid her hand upon the inspectors sleeve. Her face was haggard and thin and eager, stamped with the print of a recent horror. Have you got them?
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I cannot think how I came to overlook it, said the inspector with an expression of annoyance. It was invisible, buried in the mud. I only saw it because I was looking for it. What! you expected to find it? I thought it not unlikely. He took the boots
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Its this way, Watson, said he at last. We may leave the question of who killed John Straker for the instant and confine ourselves to finding out what has become of the horse. Now, supposing that he broke away during or after the tragedy, where could
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We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf. Again the ground sloped, and again we came on the tracks. Then we lost them for half a mile, but only to pick them up once more quite close to Mapleton. It was Holmes
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We dont want any loiterers about here, said he. I only wished to ask a question, said Holmes, with his finger and thumb in his waistcoat pocket. Should I be too early to see your master, Mr. Silas Brown, if I were to call at five oclock to-morrow mor
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It was twenty minutes, and the reds had all faded into grays before Holmes and the trainer reappeared. Never have I seen such a change as had been brought about in Silas Brown in that short time. His face was ashy pale, beads of perspiration shone up
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He has the horse, then? He tried to bluster out of it, but I described to him so exactly what his actions had been upon that morning that he is convinced that I was watching him. Of course you observed the peculiarly square toes in the impressions, a
