The Return of Sherlock Holmes

"'Journeys end in lovers' meetings,' as the old play says.

"What one man can invent another can discover," said Holmes.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise."

"Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.

What one man can invent another can discover,"

"I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a Shikari,"

"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?"

All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistance which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigation. I confess that I made little progress.

The adventure of the empty house

"Ah, yes, that's another matter – a mere trifle, but the sort of thing you take an interest in – queer, you know, and what you might call freakish.