Sherlock Holmes Bibliomancy Reading

This oracle points to a randomly selected line from Sherlock Holmes. The surrounding passages are provided for context.

 

Your passage is from CHAPTER VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND.

 

For Context:

CHAPTER VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND

I believe that it was an excuse to move me from my room.”

“Ah!

that is suggestive.

Now, on the other side of this narrow wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open.

There are windows in it, of course?”

“Yes, but very small ones.

Too narrow for anyone to pass through.”

“As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were unapproachable from that side.

Now, would you have the kindness to go into your room and bar your shutters?”

Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination through tHe open window, endeavoured in every way to force the shutter open, but without success.

There was no slit through which a knife could be passed to raise the bar.