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A Study In Scarlet

CHAPTER VI
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I found out where Lieutenant Charpentier was, took two officers with me, and arrested him.

When I touched him on the shoulder and warned him to come quietly with us, he answered us as bold as brass, 'I suppose you are arresting me for being concerned in the death of that scoundrel Drebber,' he said.

We had said nothing to him about it, so that his alluding to it had a most suspicious aspect." "Very," said Holmes.
"He still carried the heavy stick which the mother described him as having with him when he followed Drebber.

It was a stout oak cudgel." "What is your theory, then ?" "Well, my theory is that he followed Drebber as far as the Brixton Road.
When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.

The night was so wet that no one was about, so Charpentier dragged the body of his victim into the empty house.


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