Sherlock Holmes - Deductions
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“Sorry to see that you’ve had the British workman in the house. He‘s a token of evil. Not the drains, I hope?”
“I see that you are professionally rather busy just now,” said he, glancing very keenly across at me.
“When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom.”
“Therefore a third person must have entered the room. And that third person could only have come in through the window.”
“It can run up a curtain, and it is carnivorous.”
“Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o’clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him.”
“It is perfectly plain that after the ladies parted from this man he followed them at a distance, that he saw the quarrel between husband and wife through the window, that he rushed in, and that the creature which he carried in his box got loose.”
“When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom.”
“Therefore a third person must have entered the room. And that third person could only have come in through the window.”
“It can run up a curtain, and it is carnivorous.”
“Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o’clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him.”
“It is perfectly plain that after the ladies parted from this man he followed them at a distance, that he saw the quarrel between husband and wife through the window, that he rushed in, and that the creature which he carried in his box got loose.”