The Unique Hamlet by Vincent Starrett
Author:Vincent Starrett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
III
âThey are strange people, these book collectors,â mused Sherlock Holmes, as we rattled back to town.
âMy only regret is that I shall be unable to publish my notes on this interesting case,â I responded.
âWait a bit, my dear Doctor,â advised Holmes, âand it will be possible. In time both of them will come to look upon it as a hugely diverting episode, and will tell it upon themselves. Then your notes will be brought forth and the history of another of Mr. Sherlock Holmesâ little problems shall be given to the world.â
âIt will always be a reflection upon Sir Nathaniel,â I demurred.
âHe will glory in it,â prophesied Sherlock Holmes. âHe will go down in bookish chronicle with Chatterton, and Ireland, and Payne Collier. Mark my words, he is not blind even now to the chance this gives him for sinister immortality. He will be the first to tell it.â (And so, indeed, it proved, as this narrative suggests.)
âBut why did you preserve the leaf from Hamlet?â I curiously inquired. âWhy not a jewel from the binding?â
Sherlock Holmes chuckled heartily. Then he slowly unfolded the page in question, and directed a humorous finger at a spot upon the page.
âA fancy,â he responded, âto preserve so accurate a characterization of either of our friends. The line is a real jewel. See, the good Polonius says: âThat he is mad, âtis true: âtis true âtis pittie; and pittie it is true.â There is as much sense in Master Will as in Hafiz or Confucius, and a greater felicity of expression ⦠Here is London, and now, my dear Watson, if we hasten we shall be just in time for Zabriskiâs matinee!â
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