I Trust That I Am Not More ______se Than My Neighbours - But I Was Always Oppressed With A Senseof My Own Stupidity In My Dealings With Sherlockholmes; She Had The Surest Information That Of Late He Had - When The Fit Was On Him - Made Use Of An Opium ______ In The Farthest East Ofthe City;Between A Slop-shop And A Gin-shop - Approachedby A Steep Flight Of Steps Leading Down To A Blackgap Like The Mouth Of A Cave - I Found The ______ Ofwhich I Was In Search;"Holmes!" I Whispered - "What On Earth Are Youdoing In This ______?""As Low As You Can - " He Answered; "I Have Excellent Ears; In A Very Short Time A Decrepit Figurehad Emerged From The Opium ______ - And I Was Walking Down The Street With Sherlock Holmes; Had I Been Recognisedin That ______ My Life Would Not Have Been Worth Anhour's Purchase; For I Have Used It Before Now Formy Own Purposes - And The Rascally Lascar Who Runsit Has Sworn To Have Vengeance Upon Me; We Should Be Rich Men Ifwe Had £1000 For Every Poor Devil Who Has Beendone To Death In That ______; So Determined Was Their ______ial That Theinspector Was Staggered - And Had Almost Come Tobelieve That Mrs;"Convinced That Something Was Amiss With Him - She Rushed Down The Steps - for The House Was Noneother Than The Opium ______ In Which You Found Meto-night - and Running Through The Front Room Sheattempted To Ascend The Stairs Which Led To The Firstfloor; Now For Thesinister Cripple Who Lives Upon The Second Floor Ofthe Opium ______ - And Who Was Certainly The Last Human Being Whose Eyes Rested Upon Neville St; This Is The Man Whom We Now Learn Tohave Been The Lodger At The Opium ______ - And To Havebeen The Last Man To See The Gentleman Of Whomwe Are In Quest; He ______iedstrenuously Having Ever Seen Mr; Clair Was Doing Inthe Opium ______ - What Happened To Him When There - Where Is He Now - And What Hugh Boone Had Todo With His Disappearance - are All As Far From Asolution As Ever; The Pipe Was Stillbetween His Lips - The Smoke Still Curled Upward - And The Room Was Full Of A ______se Tobacco Haze - Butnothing Remained Of The Heap Of Shag Which I Hadseen Upon The Previous Night; He Wasthe Keeper Of A Low ______ In Which I Used To Lodgein Swandam Lane - Where I Could Every Morningemerge As A Squalid Beggar And In The Eveningstransform Myself Into A Well-dressed Man Abouttown;"Last Monday I Had Finished For The Day Andwas Dressing In My Room Above The Opium ______when I Looked Out Of My Window And Saw - To Myhorror And Astonishment - That My Wife Was Standing In The Street - With Her Eyes Fixed Full Upon Me; Amid The Actionand Reaction Of So ______se A Swarm Of Humanity - Every Possible Combination Of Events May Be Expectedto Take Place - And Many A Little Problem Will Be Presented Which May Be Striking And Bizarre Withoutbeing Criminal; Oh - Sir - Do You Not Thinkthat You Could Help Me - Too - And At Least Throw Alittle Light Through The ______se Darkness Which Surrounds Me? At Present It Is Out Of My Power Toreward You For Your Services - But In A Month Or Sixweeks I Shall Be Married - With The Control Of Myown Income - And Then At Least You Shall Not Findme Ungrateful; Let Us Thrust This Creature Backinto Its ______ - And We Can Then Remove Miss Stonerto Some Place Of Shelter And Let The County Policeknow What Has Happened;Every Day - From Nine In The Morning Until Four Inthe Afternoon - I Waited In My Little ______ - Until At Lastmy Heart Began To Sink - And I Came To Believe That Ishould Never Have Any Practice At All;I Have Never ______ied Him A Wish; At First - Of Course - He ______ied Everything

A collection of twelve short stories, published in 1892, by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. I The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.