The Lost Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes
“Yet on the few occasions when his advice was sought, he owed the recommendation to a famous barrister whom he once helped as a young man and never met again.
The encounter took place late one evening, in the very last months of the nineteenth century. I was about to wish Holmes goodnight and turn in when there was a clang of the bell at the street door of our rooms. It was repeated almost at once with a note of greater urgency. In a few moments, the housekeeper, who had been roused from bed her...self, announced that a young gentleman of the most respectable appearance insisted upon seeing Mr Sherlock Holmes at once and would take no refusal. I quite expected my friend to make some protest at the lateness of the hour, but he said only, ‘Dear me, Mrs Hudson. Then, if he is so very insistent and respectable, I suppose we must grant him an audience.’ The good lady showed up a tall and thin-faced young man, a saturnine and somewhat satanic-looking figure in a Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers.MoreLess
The encounter took place late one evening, in the very last months of the nineteenth century. I was about to wish Holmes goodnight and turn in when there was a clang of the bell at the street door of our rooms. It was repeated almost at once with a note of greater urgency. In a few moments, the housekeeper, who had been roused from bed her...self, announced that a young gentleman of the most respectable appearance insisted upon seeing Mr Sherlock Holmes at once and would take no refusal. I quite expected my friend to make some protest at the lateness of the hour, but he said only, ‘Dear me, Mrs Hudson. Then, if he is so very insistent and respectable, I suppose we must grant him an audience.’ The good lady showed up a tall and thin-faced young man, a saturnine and somewhat satanic-looking figure in a Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers.MoreLess
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