The Adventures And Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
These are the documents in the extraordinary case of the Gloria Scott, and this is the message which struck Justice of the Peace Trevor dead with horror when he read it.’ He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper. ‘The supply of game for London is going steadily up,’ it ran. ‘Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper, and for preservation of your hen pheasant’s life.’ As I glanced up from reading this enigmatical message I saw Holmes chuckling at the expression upon my face. ‘You look a little bewildered,’ said he. ‘I cannot see how such a message as this could inspire horror. It seems to me to be rather grotesque than otherwise.’ ‘Very likely. Yet the fact remains that the reader, who was a fine, robust old man, was knocked clean down by it, as if it had been the butt-end of a pistol.’ ‘You arouse my curiosity,’ said I.
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