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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Capítulo 9, Página 18
“Undoubtedly.
It
is
quite
clear
that
the
colonel
was
a
cool
and
desperate
man,
who
was
absolutely
determined
that
nothing
should
stand
in
the
way
of
his
little
game,
like
those
out-and-out
pirates
who
will
leave
no
survivor
from
a
captured
ship.
Well,
every
moment
now
is
precious,
so
if
you
feel
equal
to
it
we
shall
go
down
to
Scotland
Yard
at
once
as
a
preliminary
to
starting
for
Eyford.”
Some
three
hours
or
so
afterwards
we
were
all
in
the
train
together,
bound
from
Reading
to
the
little
Berkshire
village.
There
were
Sherlock
Holmes,
the
hydraulic
engineer,
Inspector
Bradstreet,
of
Scotland
Yard,
a
plain-clothes
man,
and
myself.
Bradstreet
had
spread
an
ordnance
map
of
the
county
out
upon
the
seat
and
was
busy
with
his
compasses
drawing
a
circle
with
Eyford
for
its
centre.
“There
you
are,”
said
he.
“That
circle
is
drawn
at
a
radius
of
ten
miles
from
the
village.
The
place
we
want
must
be
somewhere
near
that
line.
You
said
ten
miles,
I
think,
sir.”
“It
was
an
hour’s
good
drive.”
“And
you
think
that
they
brought
you
back
all
that
way
when
you
were
unconscious?”
“They
must
have
done
so.
I
have
a
confused
memory,
too,
of
having
been
lifted
and
conveyed
somewhere.”
“What
I
cannot
understand,”
said
I,
“is
why
they
should
have
spared
you
when
they
found
you
lying
fainting
in
the
garden.
Perhaps
the
villain
was
softened
by
the
woman’s
entreaties.”
“I
hardly
think
that
likely.
I
never
saw
a
more
inexorable
face
in
my
life.”
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