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“So it isn’t by showing his hand,
Or supplying the needs of the Press
With a sketch of the scheme he has plann’d,
That his efforts he’ll crown with success;
But by keeping the threads that he’s got
To himself, careful no chance to miss.
Well, he tracked out the dynamite plot -
Ten to one he’ll make something of this!
But that you’ll share his confidence, pray don’t expect.
Bear in mind a Detective is meant to detect!”

The Detectives’ Rescue - Punch or the London Charivari - 20th October 1888 (via lisgoe)

3 months ago with 5 notes

“You see how things are. You have read, you have considered, yet you refuse to reach the obvious conclusions”

Pure, Andrew Miller (via lisgoe)

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