Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.