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.
“It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive.
For Context:
CHAPTER IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
I shook my head.
“Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence,” I remarked.
“So they have.
And many men have been wrongfully hanged.”
“What is the young man’s own account of the matter?”
“It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive.
You will find it here, and may read it for yourself.”
He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own statement of what had occurred.
I settled myself down in the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully.
It ran in this way:
“Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called and gave evidence as follows: ‘I had been away from home for three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the morning of last Monday, the 3rd.
