Mrs Hudson had brought tea and I found Holmes to be in unusually expansive mode, almost chatty.
The Professor has one weakness, Watson. He thinks that I hate him for being sharper than I am. He doesn't understand that I love him for it. That's what lets me see with his eyes, and that is how I will get him. He's finished already, Watson. I will miss him when he's gone. Ah, Mrs Hudson, yes please, we'd love to have some more of your excellent cucumber sandwiches, thank you.
Inspector Lestrade did not try to hide his pride. "Charlotte, our new AI agent, really is the ticket. We gave her the data and she found the murderer within seconds. We have arrested Jones, the plumber. Not sure whether we will need your services much longer, Holmes," he laughed. "Charlotte does the work." Sherlock smiled drily.
What can one do about someone like Lestrade, Watson, he said to me once we sat in the cab. Someone who can't think can't see the truth even when it stares them in the face. Jones would never have twisted the compression coupling counter-clockwise, he's a trained plumber, for Heaven's sake! It was Lord Jenkins who removed the pipe, ignorant of the nature of the fittings. Hence the scratch marks on the brass. Lestrade will call on us again by evening. It is Tuesday, Watson, I believe Mrs Hudson has some cake for us. We can keep some for Lestrade.
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My friend had stared out of the open window for a long time. When he turned his gaze back into the room, he seemed disoriented. Remind me, Watson, will you, why are we here?
Oh Holmes, to help Lestrade of course, he called us in. The Duke of Hensbach-Oxholm was found seated at the Viscount's desk, his throat cut by ...
Ah, yes, the Duke. Well, the case has solved itself, hasn't it, Watson, it's perfectly plain. Tell Lestrade that we shan't be able to assist him. He'll notice the empty ashtray eventually.
What is Windows 11, Holmes asked distractedly, his eyes fixed on the gopher session that ran in gentle orange glow on his ancient IBM P70 Luggable. You do know, Watson, don't you, that I have no time for knowledge that can't be applied.
Windows 11 is the successor to Windows 10, I replied drily, though for once Holmes did not spot my sarcasm. He kept typing messages.
I dropped myself into the armchair next to Holmes's desk, unfazed. I knew I would get his attention soon enough.
Moriarty uses a Windows laptop when travelling. He's updated to Windows 11 and he's unaware that Copilot keeps editing his memos to his agents.
The rattling of the keyboard had stopped. Moriarty's network is in disarray, Sherlock. "Vulnerability" is the word that springs to mind.
Holmes had taken the Meerschaum pipe out of its box and started cutting slices off his Gawith & Hoggarth Black Twist rope tobacco. Tell me more, Watson. I want to know everything.
Hence. Holmes spoke abruptly, after a long silence. Hence Lestrade and his AI toy machines will never know anything of value about Moriarty. The Professor thinks. Lestrade and his machines have no idea what that even means.
I tell you, Watson, a single day with Moriarty as my enemy is worth more to me than a year with Lestrade and his machines as my allies. Life, Watson, life! Oh I am so bored by the automatons.
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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
I knew you came from Afghanistan. From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps. There were such steps, however. The train of reasoning ran, “Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man. Clearly an army doctor, then. He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair. He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly. His left arm has been injured. He holds it in a stiff and unnatural manner. Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded? Clearly in Afghanistan.” The whole train of thought did not occupy a second. I then remarked that you came from Afghanistan, and you were astonished.Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 2 [Holmes], Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)
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I knew you came from Afghanistan. From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps. There were such steps, however. The train of reasoning ran, "Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but…
Thank you, Mrs Hudson, and to you too. May the coming year be a safe year for us all.
I had never seen Holmes address our landlady in such personal terms. His voice was trembling a little. I believe I could see him wipe a tear off his eye. The unsavoury end to the pearl necklace case had hit him harder than I had first thought.
To a safe Year 2026, I said, raising my glass. We'll get through it, somehow, won't we, Sherlock.
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Watson, you're back in. I can't solve the Labeyrie case on my own, it cries out for the solid grind of a natural pedant. Your're the man, Watson. Cancel your other appointments. We'll be on the 3.42 train to Oxford.
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