The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle [books to read in your 30s TXT] 📗

himself with a master touch. You heard me warn this man at Birlstone Manor House that the coming danger was greater than the past. Was I right?”

Barker beat his head with his clenched fist in his impotent anger.

“Do you tell me that we have to sit down under this? Do you say that no one can ever get level with this king-devil?”

“No, I don’t say that,” said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. “I don’t say that he can’t be beat. But you must give me time⁠—you must give me time!”

We all sat in silence for some minutes, while those fateful eyes still strained to pierce the veil.

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The Valley of Fear
was published in 1913 by
Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Valley of Fear,
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