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“A sergeant, sir, Royal Marine Light Infantry, sir. No answer? Right, sir.” He clicked his heels together, raised his hand in a salute, and was gone.
Two doors opened out of it to the left and to the right
There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can’t unravel the thousand and first. Lestrade is a well-known detective. He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here.” “And these other people?”
retired sergeant of Marines
incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather – that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.”
swung his cane. a steady, respectable,
get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my
“Brag and bounce!” thought I to myself. “He knows that I cannot verify his guess.”
The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man’s inmost thoughts
while his lower limbs were interlocked as though his death struggle had been a grievous one
