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Project Gutenberg's Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Author: Sir Arthur Conan DoyleRelease Date: July 31, 2008 [EBook #834]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ***Produced by Angela M. Cable, and David Widger
MEMOIRS OFSHERLOCK HOLMES
by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleContents
 Adventure I.Silver Blaze
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 Adventure II.The Yellow Face Adventure III.The Stock-Broker's Clerk  Adventure IV.The "
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" Adventure V.The Musgrave Ritual Adventure VI.The Reigate Puzzle Adventure VII.The Crooked Man Adventure VIII.The Resident Patient Adventure IX.The Greek Interpreter Adventure X.The Naval Treaty Adventure XI.The Final Problem
 Adventure I. Silver Blaze
"I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," saidHolmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast onemorning."Go! Where to?""To Dartmoor; to King's Pyland."I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was thathe had not already been mixed up in this extraordinarycase, which was the one topic of conversation throughthe length and breadth of England. For a whole day mycompanion had rambled about the room with his chinupon his chest and his brows knitted, charging andrecharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco,and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks.Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by ournews agent, only to be glanced over and tossed downinto a corner. Yet, silent as he was, I knew perfectlywell what it was over which he was brooding. Therewas but one problem before the public which couldchallenge his powers of analysis, and that was thesingular disappearance of the favorite for the WessexCup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. When,
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therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only whatI had both expected and hoped for."I should be most happy to go down with you if Ishould not be in the way," said I."My dear Watson, you would confer a great favorupon me by coming. And I think that your time will notbe misspent, for there are points about the case whichpromise to make it an absolutely unique one. We have,I think, just time to catch our train at Paddington, andI will go further into the matter upon our journey. Youwould oblige me by bringing with you your veryexcellent field-glass." And so it happened that an hour or so later I foundmyself in the corner of a first-class carriage flyingalong en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, withhis sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flappedtravelling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of freshpapers which he had procured at Paddington. We hadleft Reading far behind us before he thrust the last oneof them under the seat, and offered me his cigar-case."We are going well," said he, looking out the windowand glancing at his watch. "Our rate at present isfifty-three and a half miles an hour.""I have not observed the quarter-mile posts," said I."Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this lineare sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simpleone. I presume that you have looked into this matter of the murder of John Straker and the disappearance of Silver Blaze?""I have seen what the Telegraph and the Chroniclehave to say.""It is one of those cases where the art of the reasonershould be used rather for the sifting of details than forthe acquiring of fresh evidence. The tragedy has beenso uncommon, so complete and of such personalimportance to so many people, that we are sufferingfrom a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of 
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