steps descending the stairs, "she seems to be a youn

es gravely. "I am much mistaken if we do n

conditions, the light duties, all pointed to something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted bro

ll-night chemical researches which he frequently indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a test-tube at night and find him in t

n Bradshaw," said he, and turne

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ad better postpone my analysis of the acetones,