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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Red-Headed League
Capítulo 2, Página 11
“‘No
excuse
will
avail,’
said
Mr.
Duncan
Ross;
‘neither
sickness
nor
business
nor
anything
else.
There
you
must
stay,
or
you
lose
your
billet.’”
“‘And
the
work?’”
“‘Is
to
copy
out
the
Encyclopædia
Britannica.
There
is
the
first
volume
of
it
in
that
press.
You
must
find
your
own
ink,
pens,
and
blotting-paper,
but
we
provide
this
table
and
chair.
Will
you
be
ready
to-morrow?’”
“‘Certainly,’
I
answered.”
“‘Then,
good-bye,
Mr.
Jabez
Wilson,
and
let
me
congratulate
you
once
more
on
the
important
position
which
you
have
been
fortunate
enough
to
gain.’
He
bowed
me
out
of
the
room
and
I
went
home
with
my
assistant,
hardly
knowing
what
to
say
or
do,
I
was
so
pleased
at
my
own
good
fortune.”
“Well,
I
thought
over
the
matter
all
day,
and
by
evening
I
was
in
low
spirits
again;
for
I
had
quite
persuaded
myself
that
the
whole
affair
must
be
some
great
hoax
or
fraud,
though
what
its
object
might
be
I
could
not
imagine.
It
seemed
altogether
past
belief
that
anyone
could
make
such
a
will,
or
that
they
would
pay
such
a
sum
for
doing
anything
so
simple
as
copying
out
the
Encyclopædia
Britannica.
Vincent
Spaulding
did
what
he
could
to
cheer
me
up,
but
by
bedtime
I
had
reasoned
myself
out
of
the
whole
thing.
However,
in
the
morning
I
determined
to
have
a
look
at
it
anyhow,
so
I
bought
a
penny
bottle
of
ink,
and
with
a
quill-pen,
and
seven
sheets
of
foolscap
paper,
I
started
off
for
Pope’s
Court.”
“Well,
to
my
surprise
and
delight,
everything
was
as
right
as
possible.
The
table
was
set
out
ready
for
me,
and
Mr.
Duncan
Ross
was
there
to
see
that
I
got
fairly
to
work.
He
started
me
off
upon
the
letter
A,
and
then
he
left
me;
but
he
would
drop
in
from
time
to
time
to
see
that
all
was
right
with
me.
At
two
o’clock
he
bade
me
good-day,
complimented
me
upon
the
amount
that
I
had
written,
and
locked
the
door
of
the
office
after
me.”
“This
went
on
day
after
day,
Mr.
Holmes,
and
on
Saturday
the
manager
came
in
and
planked
down
four
golden
sovereigns
for
my
week’s
work.
It
was
the
same
next
week,
and
the
same
the
week
after.
Every
morning
I
was
there
at
ten,
and
every
afternoon
I
left
at
two.
By
degrees
Mr.
Duncan
Ross
took
to
coming
in
only
once
of
a
morning,
and
then,
after
a
time,
he
did
not
come
in
at
all.
Still,
of
course,
I
never
dared
to
leave
the
room
for
an
instant,
for
I
was
not
sure
when
he
might
come,
and
the
billet
was
such
a
good
one,
and
suited
me
so
well,
that
I
would
not
risk
the
loss
of
it.”
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