There Will Call Upon You To-night - At A Quarterto Eight O'clock - It Said - "A Gentleman Who Desiresto Consult You Upon A ______ter Of The Very Deepestmoment; Your Recent Services To One Of The Royalhouses Of Europe Have Shown That You Are One Whomay Safely Be Trusted With ______ters Which Are Of Animportance Which Can Hardly Be Exaggerated;"Then I Must Begin - " Said He - "By Binding You Bothto Absolute Secrecy For Two Years; At The End Ofthat Time The ______ter Will Be Of No Importance;To Speak Plainly - The ______ter Implicates The Greathouse Of Ormstein - Hereditary Kings Of Bohemia; Yet The ______ter Was So Delicate Thati Could Not Confide It To An Agent Without Putting"I Think That I Had Better Go - Holmes; I Understand That This Gentleman - Your Friend - Is A Man Of Honour And Discretion - Whom I May Trust With A ______ter Of The Mostextreme Importance; A Shadow Of A Doubtas To My Conduct Would Bring The ______ter To Anend; "That Is Very Fortunate - As I Haveone Or Two ______ters Of Importance To Look Into Justat Present;"This Godfrey Norton Was Evidently An Important Factor In The ______ter;"I Was Still Balancing The ______ter In My Mindwhen A Hansom Cab Drove Up To Briony Lodge - And A Gentleman Sprang Out;"You See - " Remarked Holmes - As We Paced Toand Fro In Front Of The House - "This Marriage Rathersimplifies ______ters; "The ______ter Was Perfectly Simple;""Then That Will Simplify ______ters; Then There Is No More Tobe Done In The ______ter; When - Inaddition - I See A Chinese Coin Hanging From Yourwatch-chain - The ______ter Becomes Even More Simple;'"Now - It Is A Fact - Gentlemen - As You May Seefor Yourselves - That My Hair Is Of A Very Full Andrich Tint - So That It Seemed To Me That If There Wasto Be Any Competition In The ______ter I Stood As Gooda Chance As Any Man That I Had Ever Met; Getting A Vacancy Did Not Seem To Be Sucha Very Easy ______ter - After All;"Well - I Thought Over The ______ter All Day - And Byevening I Was In Low Spirits Again; For I Had Quitepersuaded Myself That The Whole Affair Must Besome Great Hoax Or Fraud - Though What Its Objectmight Be I Could Not Imagine; But I Must Be Promptover This ______ter; But To-day Being Saturday Rathercomplicates ______ters; I Tried To Puzzle It Out - But Gave It Up Indespair And Set The ______ter Aside Until Night Shouldbring An Explanation;"This Fellow Merryweather Is A Bank Director - Andpersonally Interested In The ______ter; I Expect That Within An Hour ______ters Will Come To A Head; "I Havebeen At Some Small Expense Over This ______ter - Whichi Shall Expect The Bank To Refund - But Beyond Thati Am Amply Repaid By Having Had An Experiencewhich Is In Many Ways Unique - And By Hearingthe Very Remarkable Narrative Of The Red-headedleague;"It Was From The Reigning Family Of Holland - Though The ______ter In Which I Served Them Was Ofsuch Delicacy That I Cannot Confide It Even To You - Who Have Been Good Enough To Chronicle One Ortwo Of My Little Problems; Indeed - Ihave Found That It Is Usually In Unimportant ______ters That There Is A Field For The Observation - And Forthe Quick Analysis Of Cause And Effect Which Givesthe Charm To An Investigation; In Thesecases - Save For One Rather Intricate ______ter Whichhas Been Referred To Me From Marseilles - There Isnothing Which Presents Any Features Of Interest;"This Is Wanting In The Police Report - Where Morestress Is Laid - Perhaps - Upon The Platitudes Of Themagistrate Than Upon The Details - Which To An Observer Contain The Vital Essence Of The Whole ______ter; She Would Like Advice - But Is Not Sure Thatthe ______ter Is Not Too Delicate For Communication; Here We May Take It That There Isa Love ______ter - But That The Maiden Is Not So Muchangry As Perplexed - Or Grieved; How Did Your Mothertake The ______ter?""She Was Angry - And Said That I Was Never Tospeak Of The ______ter Again; As You Observe - This Woman Had Plush Upon Her Sleeves - Whichis A Most Useful ______erial For Showing Traces; There Was Never Any Mystery Inthe ______ter - Though - As I Said Yesterday - Some Of Thedetails Are Of Interest; I Am Sorrythat Miss Sutherland Has Troubled You About Thislittle ______ter - For I Think It Is Far Better Not To Washlinen Of The Sort In Public; However - I Shallwrite Two Letters - Which Should Settle The ______ter; Angel Began To Call - For It Wasobvious That The ______ter Should Be Pushed As Faras It Would Go If A Real Effect Were To Be Produced; He Thought No More Of The ______teruntil He Heard In The Evening Of The Tragedy Thathad Occurred; Iknow Nothing Further Of The ______ter; Thisfellow Is Madly - Insanely - In Love With Her - But Sometwo Years Ago - When He Was Only A Lad - And Beforehe Really Knew Her - For She Had Been Away Five Yearsat A Boarding-school - What Does The Idiot Do Butget Into The Clutches Of A Barmaid In Bristol Andmarry Her At A Registry Office? No One Knows Aword Of The ______ter - But You Can Imagine How Maddening It Must Be To Him To Be Upbraided For Notdoing What He Would Give His Very Eyes To Do - Butwhat He Knows To Be Absolutely Impossible; And Now Let Us Talkabout George Meredith - If You Please - And We Shallleave All Minor ______ters Until To-morrow;"It's As Well - " Said The Old Man; "It's A Questionwhether I Shall Live To The Assizes - So It ______terslittle To Me - But I Should Wish To Spare Alice Theshock;53 the Five Orange Pips wthe Five Orange Pipshen I Glance Over My Notes And Recordsof The Sherlock Holmes Cases Betweenthe Years '82 And '90 - I Am Faced By Somany Which Present Strange And Interesting Features That It Is No Easy ______ter To Knowwhich To Choose And Which To Leave;"Well - To Come To An End Of The ______ter - Mr; The ______ter Passed - However - And My Father Entered Into Possession Of The Estate - And Of Some £14000 - Which Lay To His Credit At Thebank; But - As A ______ter Of Fact - Seven Weeks Elapsed;It Becomes A Personal ______ter With Me Now - And - If God Sends Me Health - I Shall Set My Hand Uponthis Gang;"This Discovery - And The Evident Confusionwhich The Cripple Showed - Made The Inspector Realise That The ______ter Was Serious; Both He And The Lascar Stoutly Swore That"And Now As To The Villains Who Seemed To Beimmediately Implicated In The ______ter; Here It Is That This Creature Takes His Dailyseat - Cross-legged With His Tiny Stock Of ______cheson His Lap - And As He Is A Piteous Spectacle A Smallrain Of Charity Descends Into The Greasy Leather Capwhich Lies Upon The Pavement Beside Him; But Ahuman Body Is A Different ______ter; There The ______ter Stands At Present - And The Questions Which Haveto Be Solved - what Neville St; With These Heconstructed A Sort Of Eastern Divan - Upon Whichhe Perched Himself Cross-legged - With An Ounceof Shag Tobacco And A Box Of ______ches Laid Out Infront Of Him;"If You Leave It To A Court Of Law To Clear The ______ter Up - " Said He - "Of Course You Can Hardly Avoidpublicity; Then With A Red Head Of Hair - And An Appropriate Dress - I Took My Station In Thebusiness Part Of The City - Ostensibly As A ______ch-sellerbut Really As A Beggar; The Other Clotheswould Have Followed - But At That Moment There Wasa Rush Of Constables Up The Stair - And A Few Minutesafter I Found - Rather - I Confess - To My Relief - That"I Wrote My Articles And Thought Little More Ofthe ______ter Until - Some Time Later - I Backed A Bill Fora Friend And Had A Writ Served Upon Me For £25;Holmes - That We Are Very Much Indebted To You Forhaving Cleared The ______ter Up; The ______ter Is Aperfectly Trivial One" - he Jerked His Thumb In Thedirection Of The Old Hat - "But There Are Points Inconnection With It Which Are Not Entirely Devoid Ofinterest And Even Of Instruction; Well - I Have No Doubt Thatthis Small ______ter Will Fall Into The Same Innocentcategory; I Have Some Account Of The ______ter Here - I Believe;"85 the Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncleshe Found ______ters As Described By The Lastwitness;""Well - Then - Do You Imagine That This Other One - Henry Baker - Had Anything To Do With The ______ter?""What Will You Say?""It Is - I Think - Much More Likely That Henrybaker Is An Absolutely Innocent Man - Who Had Noidea That The Bird Which He Was Carrying Was Ofconsiderably More Value Than If It Were Made Ofsolid Gold; "It Isquite Certain That He Knows Nothing Whatever Aboutthe ______ter; So Now!""Oh - It Is A ______ter Of No Importance; But I Don'tknow Why You Should Be So Warm Over Such Atrifle; But I'm Always Ready To Back My Opinion Ona ______ter Of Fowls - And I Have A Fiver On It That Thebird I Ate Is Country Bred;""You? Who Are You? How Could You Knowanything Of The ______ter?""My Name Is Sherlock Holmes;You Knew That This Man Horner - The Plumber - Hadbeen Concerned In Some Such ______ter Before - Andthat Suspicion Would Rest The More Readily Uponhim; I Will Just Put On My Slippers Before We Settle This Little ______ter Of Yours;My Sister Asked Me What Was The ______ter - And Whyi Was So Pale; But I Told Her That I Had Been Upsetby The Jewel Robbery At The Hotel; Butthe Creature Flapped And Struggled - And Out Camemy Sister To Know What Was The ______ter;Grimesby Roylott Which Tend To Make The ______tereven More Terrible Than The Truth; "We Shallsoon Set ______ters Right - I Have No Doubt; And Now Ibeg That You Will Lay Before Us Everything That Mayhelp Us In Forming An Opinion Upon The ______ter; My Stepfather Has Offered Noopposition To The ______ch - And We Are To Be Marriedin The Course Of The Spring; In Her Righthand Was Found The Charred Stump Of A ______ch - Andin Her Left A ______ch-box;I Have Myself Some Small Business ______ters To Attendto;""The ______ter Is Too Serious For Any Hesitation; By It Helaid The Box Of ______ches And The Stump Of A Candle; The Instant Thatwe Heard It - Holmes Sprang From The Bed - Strucka ______ch - And Lashed Furiously With His Cane At Thebell-pull; The Presence Of The Gipsies - And The Use Ofthe Word 'band - ' Which Was Used By The Poor Girl - No Doubt - To Explain The Appearance Which Shehad Caught A Hurried Glimpse Of By The Light Ofher ______ch - Were Sufficient To Put Me Upon An Entirely Wrong Scent; Having Once Made Up Mymind - You Know The Steps Which I Took In Order Toput The ______ter To The Proof;" I Rushed Upstairs - Explained The ______ter Shortly To My Wife - And In Fiveminutes Was Inside A Hansom - Driving With My Newacquaintance To Baker Street;""Perhaps You Had Better Not Speak Of The ______ter;""Oh - I Have Heard Of That Fellow - " Answered Myvisitor - "And I Should Be Very Glad If He Wouldtake The ______ter Up - Though Of Course I Must Usethe Official Police As Well;'" 'absolute And Complete Silence Before - During - And After? No Reference To The ______ter At All - Eitherin Word Or Writing?'" 'i Have Already Given You My Word; Iunderstand That It Was On A Professional ______ter Thatyou Wished To Speak To Me?'" 'undoubtedly So;'" 'then The ______ter Stands Thus; For That ______ter - Reading - And Possiblyother Large Towns - Were Within That Radius - So Theplace Might Not Be So Secluded - After All;"It Was Pitch Dark Inside The House - And Thecolonel Fumbled About Looking For ______ches Andmuttering Under His Breath; I Could See Thatshe Was Pretty - And From The Gloss With Which Thelight Shone Upon Her Dark Dress I Knew That It Wasa Rich ______erial; As I Have Reason Tobelieve - However - That The Full Facts Have Never Beenrevealed To The General Public - And As My Friendsherlock Holmes Had A Considerable Share In Clearing The ______ter Up - I Feel That No Memoir Of Himwould Be Complete Without Some Little Sketch Ofthis Remarkable Episode;""I Assure You - Watson - Without Affectation - Thatthe Status Of My Client Is A ______ter Of Less Momentto Me Than The Interest Of His Case; I Will Read It To You - And In Return You Must Turn Over These Papers Andlet Me Have Whatever Bears Upon The ______ter; Lestrade - Of Scotland Yard - Is Acting Already In The ______ter - But He Assures Me That He Sees Noobjection To Your Co-operation - And Thathe Even Thinks That It Might Be Of Someassistance; I Will Call At Four O'clock Inthe Afternoon - And - Should You Have Anyother Engagement At That Time - I Hopethat You Will Postpone It - As This ______teris Of Paramount Importance;' He's Forty-one Years Of Age - Which Is ______ure For Marriage; I Feared To Referthem To You - However - As I Knew That You Had Aninquiry On Hand And That You Disliked The Intrusionof Other ______ters; Miss Doran - Whose Graceful Figure And Striking Faceattracted Much Attention At The Westburyhouse Festivities - Is An Only Child - And It Is122 the Adventure Of The Noble Bachelorthe Attempts Of The Friends To Hush The ______ter Up - So Much Public Attention Has Nowbeen Drawn To It That No Good Purpose Canbe Served By Affecting To Disregard What Isa Common Subject For Conversation; Draw Up Alittle To The Fire - And We Will Talk This ______ter Over;""A Most Painful ______ter To Me - As You Can Mostreadily Imagine - Mr; There Arerumours Of Foul Play In The ______ter - And It Issaid That The Police Have Caused The Arrest Ofthe Woman Who Had Caused The Original Disturbance - In The Belief That - From Jealousy Orsome Other Motive - She May Have Been Concerned In The Strange Disappearance Of Thebride; Yetwhen I Spoke To Her Of The ______ter - She Answered Meabruptly; And In The Carriage - On Our Way Home - Sheseemed Absurdly Agitated Over This Trifling Cause; She Was Very Independent In Little ______ters Like That;""Oh - Indeed! Then You Think That The Serpentine Plays No Part In The ______ter?""I Think It Very Unlikely; Holmes - Andwe Shall See Which Gets To The Bottom Of The ______terfirst;"Just One Hint To You - Lestrade - " Drawledholmes Before His Rival Vanished; "I Will Tell Youthe True Solution Of The ______ter; If I Cannot Persuadeyou To Take A Lenient View Of The ______ter - Lord St; Moulton - You Would Like Myfriend And Me To Leave The Room While You Explainthis ______ter?""If I May Give An Opinion - " Remarked The Strangegentleman - "We've Had Just A Little Too Much Secrecyover This Business Already;"What On Earth Can Be The ______ter With Him?"I Asked; It Is A Pure ______terof Form;I Rely Upon You Not Only To Be Discreet And To Refrain From All Gossip Upon The ______ter But - Aboveall - To Preserve This Coronet With Every Possible Precaution Because I Need Not Say That A Great Publicscandal Would Be Caused If Any Harm Were To Befall It; Any Injury To It Would Be Almost As Seriousas Its Complete Loss - For There Are No Beryls In Theworld To ______ch These - And It Would Be Impossibleto Replace Them; I Could - Of Course - Borrow So Trifling A Sum Ten Times Over From Myfriends - But I Much Prefer To Make It A ______ter Ofbusiness And To Carry Out That Business Myself; However - It Was Toolate To Alter The ______ter Now - So I Locked It Up In Myprivate Safe And Turned Once More To My Work; In Only One ______terhas She Ever Gone Against My Wishes; 'i Havebeen Far Too Generous With You In Money ______ters; 'i Shall Havethis ______ter Probed To The Bottom; I Answered That It Hadceased To Be A Private ______ter - But Had Become Apublic One - Since The Ruined Coronet Was Nationalproperty;""This ______ter - From What You Say - Seems To Havebeen A Shock To Her Also; "Is It Not Obvious To You Now That This ______ter Really Strikes Verymuch Deeper Than Either You Or The Police Were Atfirst Inclined To Think? It Appeared To You To Be Asimple Case; To Me It Seems Exceedingly Complex;" 'you May As Well Face The ______ter - ' Said I; 'youhave Been Caught In The Act - And No Confessioncould Make Your Guilt More Heinous;"No - No - My Girl - The ______ter Must Be Probed Tothe Bottom; Let The ______ter Drop And Say No More;""I Fully Share Your Opinion - And I Trust - Withyou - That We May Prove It - " Returned Holmes - Going Back To The ______ To Knock The Snow From Hisshoes; We Have Certainly Been Favouredwith Extraordinary Luck During This Inquiry - And Itwill Be Entirely Our Own Fault If We Do Not Succeedin Clearing The ______ter Up; I Shall Look Into The ______ter Betweenthis And Then; I May Be On The Trail In This ______ter - Ori May Be Following A Will-o'-the-wisp - But I Shallsoon Know Which It Is; Three Thousandwill Cover The ______ter; You Owe A Veryhumble Apology To That Noble Lad - Your Son - Whohas Carried Himself In This ______ter As I Should Beproud To See My Own Son Do - Should I Ever Chanceto Have One; It Wasa Delicate Part Which I Had To Play Then - For I Sawthat A Prosecution Must Be Avoided To Avert Scandal - And I Knew That So Astute A Villain Would See Thatour Hands Were Tied In The ______ter; The Small ______ter In Whichi Endeavoured To Help The King Of Bohemia - Thesingular Experience Of Miss Mary Sutherland - Theproblem Connected With The Man With The Twistedlip - And The Incident Of The Noble Bachelor - Wereall ______ters Which Are Outside The Pale Of The Law;""It Seems To Me That I Have Done You Full Justicein The ______ter - " I Remarked With Some Coldness - For Iwas Repelled By The Egotism Which I Had More Thanonce Observed To Be A Strong Factor In My Friend'ssingular Character;After All - If These People Had Strange Fads And Expected Obedience On The Most Extraordinary ______ters - They Were At Least Ready To Pay For Their Eccentricity;" 'ah - Very Well; Then That Quite Settles The ______ter; Asto Holmes - I Observed That He Sat Frequently Forhalf An Hour On End - With Knitted Brows And Anabstracted Air - But He Swept The ______ter Away With Awave Of His Hand When I Mentioned It; I Thought - However - That Before Taking The Finalstep I Should Like To Submit The Whole ______ter Toyour Consideration; Is It Not Possible That His Wifeis A Lunatic - That He Desires To Keep The ______ter Quietfor Fear She Should Be Taken To An Asylum - And Thathe Humours Her Fancies In Every Way In Order Toprevent An Outbreak?""That Is A Possible Solution - in Fact - As ______tersstand - It Is The Most Probable One;""What Can Be The ______ter - Then? Can You Suggestno Explanation?""I Have Devised Seven Separate Explanations - Each Of Which Would Cover The Facts As Far As Weknow Them; Iwas Preoccupied With Business ______ters; I Returnedthe Strange Hair To The Drawer - And I Said Nothingof The ______ter To The Rucastles As I Felt That I Had Putmyself In The Wrong By Opening A Drawer Whichthey Had Locked; If You Could Send Her Into The Cellar On Someerrand - And Then Turn The Key Upon Her - You Wouldfacilitate ______ters Immensely;""Ah - " Said Holmes - "I Think That What You Havebeen Good Enough To Tell Us Makes The ______ter Fairlyclear - And That I Can Deduce All That Remains; Toller Knows More About This ______terthan Anyone Else

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.