The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 18 (1/2)
”Why,” said I, glancing up at ht? Some friend of yours, perhaps?”
”Except yourself I have none,” he answered ”I do not encourage visitors”
”A client, then?”
”If so, it is a serious case Nothing less would bring a man out on such a day and at such an hour But I take it that it is more likely to be so in his conjecture, however, for there ca at the door He stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit
”Co, soroo of refine u waterproof told of the fierce weather through which he had colare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a reat anxiety
”I owe you an apology,” he said, raising his golden pince-nez to his eyes ”I trust that I aht so chamber”
”Give me your coat and umbrella,” said Holmes ”They may rest here on the hook and will be dry presently You have come up from the south-west, I see”
”Yes, from Horsham”
”That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is quite distinctive”
”I have coot”
”And help”
”That is not always so easy”
”I have heard of you, Mr Holast how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal”
”Ah, of course He rongfully accused of cheating at cards”
”He said that you could solve anything”
”He said too much”
”That you are never beaten”
”I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a woman”
”But what is that compared with the nuenerally successful”
”Then youthat you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me with some details as to your case”
”It is no ordinary one”