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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Capítulo 7, Página 1
I
had
called
upon
my
friend
Sherlock
Holmes
upon
the
second
morning
after
Christmas,
with
the
intention
of
wishing
him
the
compliments
of
the
season.
He
was
lounging
upon
the
sofa
in
a
purple
dressing-gown,
a
pipe-rack
within
his
reach
upon
the
right,
and
a
pile
of
crumpled
morning
papers,
evidently
newly
studied,
near
at
hand.
Beside
the
couch
was
a
wooden
chair,
and
on
the
angle
of
the
back
hung
a
very
seedy
and
disreputable
hard-felt
hat,
much
the
worse
for
wear,
and
cracked
in
several
places.
A
lens
and
a
forceps
lying
upon
the
seat
of
the
chair
suggested
that
the
hat
had
been
suspended
in
this
manner
for
the
purpose
of
examination.
“You
are
engaged,”
said
I;
“perhaps
I
interrupt
you.”
“Not
at
all.
I
am
glad
to
have
a
friend
with
whom
I
can
discuss
my
results.
The
matter
is
a
perfectly
trivial
one”—he
jerked
his
thumb
in
the
direction
of
the
old
hat—“but
there
are
points
in
connection
with
it
which
are
not
entirely
devoid
of
interest
and
even
of
instruction.”
I
seated
myself
in
his
armchair
and
warmed
my
hands
before
his
crackling
fire,
for
a
sharp
frost
had
set
in,
and
the
windows
were
thick
with
the
ice
crystals.
“I
suppose,”
I
remarked,
“that,
homely
as
it
looks,
this
thing
has
some
deadly
story
linked
on
to
it—that
it
is
the
clue
which
will
guide
you
in
the
solution
of
some
mystery
and
the
punishment
of
some
crime.”
“No,
no.
No
crime,”
said
Sherlock
Holmes,
laughing.
“Only
one
of
those
whimsical
little
incidents
which
will
happen
when
you
have
four
million
human
beings
all
jostling
each
other
within
the
space
of
a
few
square
miles.
Amid
the
action
and
reaction
of
so
dense
a
swarm
of
humanity,
every
possible
combination
of
events
may
be
expected
to
take
place,
and
many
a
little
problem
will
be
presented
which
may
be
striking
and
bizarre
without
being
criminal.
We
have
already
had
experience
of
such.”
“So
much
so,”
I
remarked,
“that
of
the
last
six
cases
which
I
have
added
to
my
notes,
three
have
been
entirely
free
of
any
legal
crime.”
“Precisely.
You
allude
to
my
attempt
to
recover
the
Irene
Adler
papers,
to
the
singular
case
of
Miss
Mary
Sutherland,
and
to
the
adventure
of
the
man
with
the
twisted
lip.
Well,
I
have
no
doubt
that
this
small
matter
will
fall
into
the
same
innocent
category.
You
know
Peterson,
the
commissionaire?”
“Yes.”
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