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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Road, where she fattened fowls for the market.

All the way there every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down my face before I came to the Brixton Road.

My sister asked me what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel.

Then I went into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would be best to do.
"I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and has just been serving his time in Pentonville.

One day he had met me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they could get rid of what they stole.


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