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 IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY.

 

For Context:

CHAPTER IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY

Local aid is always either worthless or else biassed.

If you will keep the two corner seats I shall get the tickets.”

We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of papers which Holmes had brought with him.

Among these he rummaged and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until we were past Reading.

Then he suddenly rolled them all into a gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack.

“Have you heard anything of the case?” he asked.

“Not a word.

I have not seen a paper for some days.”

“The London press has not had very full accounts.

I have just been looking through all the recent papers in order to master tHe particulars.

It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult.”