1 The man seemed to be beside himself with excitement.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 2 The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 3 I knew that Moriarty was not the only man who had sworn my death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 4 Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the door.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 5 It is no joke when a tall man has to take a foot off his stature for several hours on end.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 6 So amazed was I that I threw out my hand to make sure that the man himself was standing beside me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 7 In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have fastened the door upon the inside.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 8 Peering through the gloom, I saw the vague outline of a man, a shade blacker than the blackness of the open door.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 9 For the rest the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 10 The shadow of a man who was seated in a chair within was thrown in hard, black outline upon the luminous screen of the window.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 11 Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 12 As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 13 And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which must have caused instantaneous death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 14 A tall, thin man with coloured glasses, whom I strongly suspected of being a plain-clothes detective, was pointing out some theory of his own, while the others crowded round to listen to what he said.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 15 It was perfectly easy, therefore, for anyone to get into the garden, but the window was entirely inaccessible, since there was no waterpipe or anything which could help the most active man to climb it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 16 But I cared a great deal for the much more formidable person who was behind him, the bosom friend of Moriarty, the man who dropped the rocks over the cliff, the most cunning and dangerous criminal in London.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 17 For an instant I thought that it was an accident, but a moment later, looking up, I saw a man's head against the darkening sky, and another stone struck the very ledge upon which I was stretched, within a foot of my head.
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