The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up.

It's all been done before, and will be again.

I'll tell you one or two things about Moriarty which may interest you." "You'll interest me, right enough." "I happen to know who is the first link in his chain--a chain with this Napoleon-gone-wrong at one end, and a hundred broken fighting men, pickpockets, blackmailers, and card sharpers at the other, with every sort of crime in between.

His chief of staff is Colonel Sebastian Moran, as aloof and guarded and inaccessible to the law as himself.

What do you think he pays him ?" "I'd like to hear." "Six thousand a year.