"It may or be so, or it may not, Mr Holmes, but if you are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it its you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal constraint"
"The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a friend he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove! It is not part of my duties to my client, but here's a hunting-crop handy, and I think I shall just treat myeselt to --" He took two steps to the whip, but before he could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road.
"There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad and ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest."
Comments
Blueshirt: "Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!"
August: "Wheeeeeee!"
(C'mon, somebody has to do better than that!)
Posted by: tamara | February 14, 2007 01:26 PM
I'll pull the rest of those teeth out if you don't behave, see!
Posted by: starfire | February 14, 2007 03:41 PM
A chance meeting at the 'If You Make That Face It Could Stay That Way Forever' Club.
Posted by: Dzargul | February 14, 2007 04:15 PM
How not to play Yahtzee™.
Posted by: adam | February 14, 2007 08:52 PM
"I am your father, Luke."
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Posted by: ironic1 | February 15, 2007 07:02 AM
"It may or be so, or it may not, Mr Holmes, but if you are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it its you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal constraint"
Posted by: -Berv | February 16, 2007 09:04 AM
"The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a friend he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove! It is not part of my duties to my client, but here's a hunting-crop handy, and I think I shall just treat myeselt to --" He took two steps to the whip, but before he could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road.
Posted by: -Berv | February 16, 2007 09:08 AM
"There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad and ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest."
Posted by: -Berv | February 16, 2007 09:11 AM