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Miss Morstan entered the room with a firm step and an outward composure of manner. She was a blonde young lady, small, dainty, well gloved, and dressed in the most perfect taste. There was, however, a plainness and simplicity about…
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Chapter I The Science of Deduction
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little…
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The Sherlock Holmes
A STUDY IN SCARLET PART 1 PART 2 THE SIGN OF FOUR THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES THE VALLEY OF FEAR PART I The Tragedy of Birlstone PART II The Scowrers THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK…
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CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION.
We had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday; but when the Thursday came there was no occasion for our testimony. A higher Judge had taken the matter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had been summoned…
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CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN WATSON, M.D.
Our prisoner’s furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition towards ourselves, for on finding himself powerless, he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the…
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CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS.
All night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rock-strewn paths. More than once they lost their way, but Hope’s intimate knowledge of the mountains enabled them to regain the track once more. When morning broke, a…
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CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE.
On the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon Prophet, John Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains, he entrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope.…
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CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET.
Three weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had departed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier’s heart was sore within him when he thought of the young man’s return, and of the impending loss of his adopted child.…
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CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH.
This is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains they had struggled…
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CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN.
In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilisation. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from…