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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Capítulo 9, Página 20
“But
we
can’t
all
be.”
“Oh,
yes,
you
can.
This
is
my
point.”
He
placed
his
finger
in
the
centre
of
the
circle.
“This
is
where
we
shall
find
them.”
“But
the
twelve-mile
drive?”
gasped
Hatherley.
“Six
out
and
six
back.
Nothing
simpler.
You
say
yourself
that
the
horse
was
fresh
and
glossy
when
you
got
in.
How
could
it
be
that
if
it
had
gone
twelve
miles
over
heavy
roads?”
“Indeed,
it
is
a
likely
ruse
enough,”
observed
Bradstreet
thoughtfully.
“Of
course
there
can
be
no
doubt
as
to
the
nature
of
this
gang.”
“None
at
all,”
said
Holmes.
“They
are
coiners
on
a
large
scale,
and
have
used
the
machine
to
form
the
amalgam
which
has
taken
the
place
of
silver.”
“We
have
known
for
some
time
that
a
clever
gang
was
at
work,”
said
the
inspector.
“They
have
been
turning
out
half-crowns
by
the
thousand.
We
even
traced
them
as
far
as
Reading,
but
could
get
no
farther,
for
they
had
covered
their
traces
in
a
way
that
showed
that
they
were
very
old
hands.
But
now,
thanks
to
this
lucky
chance,
I
think
that
we
have
got
them
right
enough.”
But
the
inspector
was
mistaken,
for
those
criminals
were
not
destined
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
justice.
As
we
rolled
into
Eyford
Station
we
saw
a
gigantic
column
of
smoke
which
streamed
up
from
behind
a
small
clump
of
trees
in
the
neighbourhood
and
hung
like
an
immense
ostrich
feather
over
the
landscape.
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