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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street but I have a particular recollection of one which reached us on a gloomy February morning some seven or eight years ago and gave Mr. Sherlock Holmes a puzzled quarter of an hour. It was addressed to him and ran thus Please await me. Terrible misfortune. Right wing three-quarter missing indispensable to-morrow. OVERTON. Strand postmark and dispatched ten thirty-six said Holmes reading it over and over. Mr. Overton was evidently considerably excited when he sent it and somewhat incoherent in consequence. Well well he will be here I daresay by the time I have looked through the TIMES and then we shall know all about it. Even the most insignificant problem would be welcome in these stagnant days. Things had indeed been very slow with us and I had learned to dread such periods of inaction for I knew by experience that my companion s brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work. For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes s ascetic face and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes. Therefore I blessed this Mr. Overton whoever he might be since he had come with his enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life. As we had expected the telegram was soon followed by its sender and the card of Mr. Cyril Overton Trinity College Cambridge announced the arrival of an enormous young man sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle
