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December 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
we will begin another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief feature.”
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December 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must collapse.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running footfalls from the street.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Get out!” said he.
“What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!”
“No more words. Get out!”
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December 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
God help me! God help me!” He burst into convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“‘But was there another with a barred tail?’ I asked, ‘the same as the one I chose?’
“‘Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never tell them apart.’
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December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“‘Where are they all, Maggie?’ I cried.
“‘Gone to the dealer’s, Jem.’
“‘Which dealer’s?’
“‘Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.’
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December 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
He laughed until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“‘That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the flock.’
“‘Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.’
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December 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“‘Thank you, Maggie,’ says I; ‘but if it is all the same to you, I’d rather have that one I was handling just now.’
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December 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“‘Well,’ said I, ‘you said you’d give me one for Christmas, and I was feeling which was the fattest.’
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December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in it I would carry my stone to Kilburn.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the best detective that ever lived.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I might at any moment be seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat pocket.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I knew that he would be true to me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my confidence.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My sister asked me what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would be best to do.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Road, where she fattened fowls for the market.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
for I did not know at what moment the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my room.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.”

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December 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the charge against him will break down.”
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December 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I’ll swear it on a Bible. Oh, don’t bring it into court! For Christ’s sake, don’t!”
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December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM