"May I ask, my lad," I said, in the blandest voice, "what your trade may be?"
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"May I ask, my lad," I said, in the blandest voice, "what your trade may be?"
My threat was unfortunate and resulted in more harm than good to Dejah Thoris, for, as I learned later, men do not kill women upon Mars, nor women, men.
"She has gone out with her basket and may be gone for hours.
She despatched a trusted servant to sell her jade and her jewels, charging him on no account to tell her mother.
"All this seems strange to you," continued Holmes, "because you failed at the beginning of the inquiry to grasp the importance of the single real clue which was presented to you.
Several times I was attacked by wild beasts; strange, uncouth monstrosities that leaped upon me in the dark, so that I had ever to grasp my long-sword in my hand that I might be ready for them.
