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 IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB.

 

For Context:

CHAPTER IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB

She was about to renew her entreaties when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps was heard upon the stairs.

She listened for an instant, threw up her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and as noiselessly as she had come.

“The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson.

“‘This is my secretary and manager,’ said the colonel.

‘By the way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just now.

I fear that you have felt the draught.’

“‘On the contrary,’ said I, ‘I opened the door myself because I felt the room to be a little close.’

“He shot one of his suspicious looks at me.

‘Perhaps we had better proceed to business, then,’ said he.

‘Mr. Ferguson and I will take you up to see the machine.’

“‘I had better put my hat on, I suppose.’