The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr Jekyll & Mr Holmes

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It was the latest in a series of half-hearted attempts I had made to rouse Holmes from the grim reverie into which he had descended upon our emergence from the hotel in Edinburgh. For days his speech had been limited to monosyllables when he chose to speak at all, which was seldom, and then only when silence became inconvenient. The parcels which lay unopened upon the seat between us were further examples of how deeply he was involved in this case; normally an omnivorous reader with an insatiab...le appetite for learning, he had not even bothered to glance at the numerous books which he had acquired in the course of his many visits to the Edinburgh bookstalls. He had, in fact, done little more than recharge and re-light his oily briar again and again during the entire trip across the isle.
‘Indeed?’ said he, removing the stem from between his teeth for the first time in over an hour. ‘And what mystery have we cleared up?’ ‘Why, the source of the power which Edward Hyde exerts over Dr.
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