There Will Call Upon You To-night - At A ______rterto Eight O'clock - It Said - "A Gentleman Who Desiresto Consult You Upon A Matter Of The Very Deepestmoment; Thisaccount Of You We Have From All ______rters Received;It Was A ______rter Past Six When We Left Bakerstreet - And It Still Wanted Ten Minutes To The Hourwhen We Found Ourselves In Serpentine Avenue; A Fierce ______rrel Brokeout - Which Was Increased By The Two Guardsmen - Who Took Sides With One Of The Loungers - And Bythe Scissors-grinder - Who Was E______lly Hot Upon Theother Side;"It Was A ______rter-past Nine When I Started Fromhome And Made My Way Across The Park - And Sothrough Oxford Street To Baker Street;"What A Time It Seemed! From Comparing Notesafterwards It Was But An Hour And A ______rter - Yet Itappeared To Me That The Night Must Have Almostgone And The Dawn Be Breaking Above Us; I Have Just Been Looking Through All The"From Hatherley Farm-house To The Boscombepool Is A ______rter Of A Mile - And Two People Saw"Have You Heard Anything Of The Case?" Heasked; Mccarthy And His Son - And That They Appeared To Be Having A Violent ______rrel; She Was So Frightened By Theirviolence That She Ran Away And Told Her Motherwhen She Reached Home That She Had Left The Twomccarthys ______rrelling Near Boscombe Pool - Andthat She Was Afraid That They Were Going To Fight; Don't You See That You Alternatelygive Him Credit For Having Too Much Imaginationand Too Little? Too Little - If He Could Not Invent Acause Of ______rrel Which Would Give Him The Sympathy Of The Jury; Too Much - If He Evolved From Hisown Inner Consciousness Anything So Outr´e As Adying Reference To A Rat - And The Incident Of The Vanishing Cloth; So There Were ______rrels - And This - I Am Sure - Was One Of Them; And About His ______rrel With Hisfather - I Am Sure That The Reason Why He Would Notspeak About It To The Coroner Was Because I Wasconcerned In It;That Was To Some Extent In Favour Of The Accused - As When Seen ______rrelling He Was Face To Face Withhis Father; Some - However - Have Already Gained Publicity Through The Papers - And Others Have Not Offered A Field For Those Peculiar ______lities Which My Friend Possessed In So Higha Degree - And Which It Is The Object Of These Papersto Illustrate; My Wife Was On A Visit To Her Mother's - And For A Few Days I Was A Dweller Once More Inmy Old ______rters At Baker Street; It Is A Hat Of Thevery Best ______lity; Our Footfalls Rang Outcrisply And Loudly As We Swung Through The Doctors' ______rter - Wimpole Street - Harley Street - Andso Through Wigmore Street Into Oxford Street; Ina ______rter Of An Hour We Were In Bloomsbury Atthe Alpha Inn - Which Is A Small Public-house Atthe Corner Of One Of The Streets Which Runs Downinto Holborn;"Who Are You - Then? What Do You Want?" Heasked In A ______vering Voice; He Was A Lateriser - As A Rule - And As The Clock On The Mantelpieceshowed Me That It Was Only A ______rter-past Seven - Iblinked Up At Him In Some Surprise - And Perhapsjust A Little Resentment - For I Was Myself Regular Inmy Habits; Instead Of Making Friends And Exchanging Visits With Our Neighbours - Who Had Atfirst Been Overjoyed To See A Roylott Of Stoke Moranback In The Old Family Seat - He Shut Himself Up Inhis House And Seldom Came Out Save To Indulge Inferocious ______rrels With Whoever Might Cross Hispath;'" 'that Is Quite Correct - ' I Answered; 'but Youwill Excuse Me If I Say That I Cannot See How Allthis Bears Upon My Professional ______lifications; Moulton - For I Am One Of Those Who Believe That The Follyof A Monarch And The Blundering Of A Minister Infar-gone Years Will Not Prevent Our Children Frombeing Some Day Citizens Of The Same World-widecountry Under A Flag Which Shall Be A ______rtering Ofthe Union Jack With The Stars And Stripes; We Are Willing To Give £30a ______rter - Or £120 A Year - So As To Recompense You For Any Little Inconveniencewhich Our Fads May Cause You

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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.
 


1. There Will Call Upon You To-night - At A ______rterto Eight O'clock - It Said - "A Gentleman Who Desiresto Consult You Upon A Matter Of The Very Deepestmoment; Thisaccount Of You We Have From All ______rters Received;It Was A ______rter Past Six When We Left Bakerstreet - And It Still Wanted Ten Minutes To The Hourwhen We Found Ourselves In Serpentine Avenue; A Fierce ______rrel Brokeout - Which Was Increased By The Two Guardsmen - Who Took Sides With One Of The Loungers - And Bythe Scissors-grinder - Who Was E______lly Hot Upon Theother Side;"It Was A ______rter-past Nine When I Started Fromhome And Made My Way Across The Park - And Sothrough Oxford Street To Baker Street;"What A Time It Seemed! From Comparing Notesafterwards It Was But An Hour And A ______rter - Yet Itappeared To Me That The Night Must Have Almostgone And The Dawn Be Breaking Above Us; I Have Just Been Looking Through All The"From Hatherley Farm-house To The Boscombepool Is A ______rter Of A Mile - And Two People Saw"Have You Heard Anything Of The Case?" Heasked; Mccarthy And His Son - And That They Appeared To Be Having A Violent ______rrel; She Was So Frightened By Theirviolence That She Ran Away And Told Her Motherwhen She Reached Home That She Had Left The Twomccarthys ______rrelling Near Boscombe Pool - Andthat She Was Afraid That They Were Going To Fight; Don't You See That You Alternatelygive Him Credit For Having Too Much Imaginationand Too Little? Too Little - If He Could Not Invent Acause Of ______rrel Which Would Give Him The Sympathy Of The Jury; Too Much - If He Evolved From Hisown Inner Consciousness Anything So Outr´e As Adying Reference To A Rat - And The Incident Of The Vanishing Cloth; So There Were ______rrels - And This - I Am Sure - Was One Of Them; And About His ______rrel With Hisfather - I Am Sure That The Reason Why He Would Notspeak About It To The Coroner Was Because I Wasconcerned In It;That Was To Some Extent In Favour Of The Accused - As When Seen ______rrelling He Was Face To Face Withhis Father; Some - However - Have Already Gained Publicity Through The Papers - And Others Have Not Offered A Field For Those Peculiar ______lities Which My Friend Possessed In So Higha Degree - And Which It Is The Object Of These Papersto Illustrate; My Wife Was On A Visit To Her Mother's - And For A Few Days I Was A Dweller Once More Inmy Old ______rters At Baker Street; It Is A Hat Of Thevery Best ______lity; Our Footfalls Rang Outcrisply And Loudly As We Swung Through The Doctors' ______rter - Wimpole Street - Harley Street - Andso Through Wigmore Street Into Oxford Street; Ina ______rter Of An Hour We Were In Bloomsbury Atthe Alpha Inn - Which Is A Small Public-house Atthe Corner Of One Of The Streets Which Runs Downinto Holborn;"Who Are You - Then? What Do You Want?" Heasked In A ______vering Voice; He Was A Lateriser - As A Rule - And As The Clock On The Mantelpieceshowed Me That It Was Only A ______rter-past Seven - Iblinked Up At Him In Some Surprise - And Perhapsjust A Little Resentment - For I Was Myself Regular Inmy Habits; Instead Of Making Friends And Exchanging Visits With Our Neighbours - Who Had Atfirst Been Overjoyed To See A Roylott Of Stoke Moranback In The Old Family Seat - He Shut Himself Up Inhis House And Seldom Came Out Save To Indulge Inferocious ______rrels With Whoever Might Cross Hispath;'" 'that Is Quite Correct - ' I Answered; 'but Youwill Excuse Me If I Say That I Cannot See How Allthis Bears Upon My Professional ______lifications; Moulton - For I Am One Of Those Who Believe That The Follyof A Monarch And The Blundering Of A Minister Infar-gone Years Will Not Prevent Our Children Frombeing Some Day Citizens Of The Same World-widecountry Under A Flag Which Shall Be A ______rtering Ofthe Union Jack With The Stars And Stripes; We Are Willing To Give £30a ______rter - Or £120 A Year - So As To Recompense You For Any Little Inconveniencewhich Our Fads May Cause You