THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product. His...
Adventure II. The Yellow Face [In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion's singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors...
CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade "In Ramah there was a voice heard,-- weeping, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be...
CHAPTER XV Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters Since the thread of our humble hero's life has now become interwoven with that of higher ones, it is necessary to give some...
CHAPTER LI At length it was the eve of Old Lady-Day, and the agricultural world was in a fever of mobility such as only occurs at that particular date of the year. It is a day of fulfilment;...
CHAPTER 9 "Be gay securely; Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds, That hang on thy clear brow." --Death of Agrippina The sudden and almost magical change, from...
CHAPTER 1 It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more than any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each man's humour. His own, at the moment,...
CHAPTER IV FIRST WEEKS ON THE ISLAND When I waked it was broad day, the weather clear, and the storm abated, so that the sea did not rage and swell as before. But that which surprised me most was,...