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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Capítulo 6, Página 9
“But
a
cripple!”
said
I.
“What
could
he
have
done
single-handed
against
a
man
in
the
prime
of
life?”
“He
is
a
cripple
in
the
sense
that
he
walks
with
a
limp;
but
in
other
respects
he
appears
to
be
a
powerful
and
well-nurtured
man.
Surely
your
medical
experience
would
tell
you,
Watson,
that
weakness
in
one
limb
is
often
compensated
for
by
exceptional
strength
in
the
others.”
“Pray
continue
your
narrative.”
“Mrs.
St.
Clair
had
fainted
at
the
sight
of
the
blood
upon
the
window,
and
she
was
escorted
home
in
a
cab
by
the
police,
as
her
presence
could
be
of
no
help
to
them
in
their
investigations.
Inspector
Barton,
who
had
charge
of
the
case,
made
a
very
careful
examination
of
the
premises,
but
without
finding
anything
which
threw
any
light
upon
the
matter.
One
mistake
had
been
made
in
not
arresting
Boone
instantly,
as
he
was
allowed
some
few
minutes
during
which
he
might
have
communicated
with
his
friend
the
Lascar,
but
this
fault
was
soon
remedied,
and
he
was
seized
and
searched,
without
anything
being
found
which
could
incriminate
him.
There
were,
it
is
true,
some
blood-stains
upon
his
right
shirt-sleeve,
but
he
pointed
to
his
ring-finger,
which
had
been
cut
near
the
nail,
and
explained
that
the
bleeding
came
from
there,
adding
that
he
had
been
to
the
window
not
long
before,
and
that
the
stains
which
had
been
observed
there
came
doubtless
from
the
same
source.
He
denied
strenuously
having
ever
seen
Mr.
Neville
St.
Clair
and
swore
that
the
presence
of
the
clothes
in
his
room
was
as
much
a
mystery
to
him
as
to
the
police.
As
to
Mrs.
St.
Clair’s
assertion
that
she
had
actually
seen
her
husband
at
the
window,
he
declared
that
she
must
have
been
either
mad
or
dreaming.
He
was
removed,
loudly
protesting,
to
the
police-station,
while
the
inspector
remained
upon
the
premises
in
the
hope
that
the
ebbing
tide
might
afford
some
fresh
clue.”
“And
it
did,
though
they
hardly
found
upon
the
mud-bank
what
they
had
feared
to
find.
It
was
Neville
St.
Clair’s
coat,
and
not
Neville
St.
Clair,
which
lay
uncovered
as
the
tide
receded.
And
what
do
you
think
they
found
in
the
pockets?”
“I
cannot
imagine.”
“No,
I
don’t
think
you
would
guess.
Every
pocket
stuffed
with
pennies
and
half-pennies—
pennies
and
270
half-pennies.
It
was
no
wonder
that
it
had
not
been
swept
away
by
the
tide.
But
a
human
body
is
a
different
matter.
There
is
a
fierce
eddy
between
the
wharf
and
the
house.
It
seemed
likely
enough
that
the
weighted
coat
had
remained
when
the
stripped
body
had
been
sucked
away
into
the
river.”
“But
I
understand
that
all
the
other
clothes
were
found
in
the
room.
Would
the
body
be
dressed
in
a
coat
alone?”
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