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Barker beat his head with his clenched fist in his impotent anger.
“Do you tell me that we have to sit down under this? Do you say that no one can ever get level with this king-devil?”
“No, I don’t say that,” said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. “I don’t say that he can’t be beat. But you must give me time—you must give me time!”
We all sat in silence for some minutes, while those fateful eyes still strained to pierce the veil.
ColophonThe Valley of Fear
was published in 1913 by
Arthur Conan Doyle.
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