The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

"The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"

I hurled it out of the window, and it disappered into the Thames. The other clothes would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer.

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"I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to fear."

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"That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes.

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"Good God! What a week she must have spent!"

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"The police have watched this lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to post a letter unobserved.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

"The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"