[sherlock] Sherlock's Ome
Chapter 23 Money Printing Machine
"Although I don't understand what my being an orphan has to do with this matter, he has repeatedly praised me for being proficient in business. As a 26-year-old youth, I am as flattered as everyone else of my age. In addition, I have not had business for a long time. Although his request was weird, I took the job straight away."
"It's just the maintenance of a machine tool. Although the customer is a bit mysterious and has repeatedly asked for secrecy, and he has to go to Aygin, Berkshire at night, he is willing to pay ten times the cost. Why should I refuse?"
"I took the last train to Ayshire. It was already past eleven o'clock in the evening. It was a small station. There was only one staff member standing under the light on the platform and yawning. When I walked out of the train station, Colonel Stark was standing Waited in the dark, saw me and shoved me into a nearby car with the doors open, without even a nice word."
"What car is that?" Sherlock asked.
"A very ordinary black VW, sir."
Sherlock nodded, motioning for him to continue.
"The road is terrible, like an unrepaired dirt road, and we have been driving on the road for at least half an hour. Colonel Stark said it was only seven miles, but no matter how slow we walked, it should have exceeded 12 miles at least. It was dark outside Humbly, I can’t see anything, and the windows are filmed, and occasionally there is a little bit of dim light, and I can’t see what kind of house it is.”
"I tried to pass the time by chatting to Colonel Stark, but he always dismissed me with a word or two. When we finally reached our destination, I was falling asleep. The car was driving directly into the yard , parked at the gate, I stepped into the gate of the house almost at the same time as I stepped out of the car, and I couldn't see the exterior of the house at all."
"It was pitch black in the house, and the colonel fumbled to turn on the light, as if he was not familiar with this house. At this time, a young man with black hair who looked very thin came out of a room and said to the colonel What are the two sentences? Although I didn't understand them, but I went to two classes with my girlfriend before, and I still recognized that he spoke German."
"The colonel pushed the woman back into the room, and then led me into a study to wait. I sat in silence for a few minutes, when the young man came in, in a low voice, and said something that was not standard. English: 'If I were you I would run away,' he said. It seems that he was trying to make himself calmer, 'If I were you I would run away, I will not stay here. Staying is right You do no good.'”
"He ran away after he finished speaking, and I was even more uncertain about this matter, but I needed this job, and it was almost one o'clock in the morning, so I couldn't leave alone, so I had to continue to wait."
"Colonel Stark entered with a stocky man with a chinchilla beard in the crease of his double chin, who, without introducing me to his companion, asked suspiciously: 'I remember closing the door when I went, The draft is still a bit cold.' I told him I thought the room was a little stuffy, so I opened the door on purpose. He didn't seem to believe my excuse, but said: 'Come on, let's show you the machine, It's upstairs.'”
"It is an ancient house with a labyrinth of corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and low doors, all of which have been sunken. There is no carpet on the ground floor, There is no trace of furniture, the plaster on the wall is peeling and mottled, and some green things are growing. I tried to put on a gesture of indifference, but I did not forget the lady's warning, although I did not Taking it seriously, I still keep an eye on my two companions."
"After walking for several minutes, we stopped in front of a hut with a machine in it, I don't know what it was for, but it was definitely not an ordinary machine tool. Apparently stark went upstairs to trick me, they did It's definitely not a good job, so I can only be tricked into coming here in the middle of the night to avoid attracting attention and not letting me know the exact location. I was terrified at the time, but then I thought that since they would arrange it like this, they would definitely not You will kill me, and you can rest assured."
"The problem with the machine was not very serious, and it took me just over an hour to fix it. When I was packing up my tools, I suddenly saw a bit of paper scraps in a corner of the machine. It was colorful and looked very familiar. Before I could remember what it was, the colonel came over and asked, 'What are you doing?'"
"I was taken aback and I stammered, 'No, it's nothing, I've fixed the machine, it's time to go back.' He gave me a very scary look, and I tried to calm myself and pretend nothing happened. I walked out without noticing it. At that moment, I had already thought about what the scraps of paper were. If I didn’t leave quickly, I would definitely be killed by them. But I was probably too scared. The colonel saw the problem, and he Shouted: "Quick, he found out our secret." He rushed over."
"Fortunately, the fat man whose name I don't know is on the other side of the room. I just need to break through the colonel's line of defense. So I took out my large wrench from my bag and rushed to the door. I rushed out of the hut while dodging the wrench. There was a window at the end of the corridor. I ran to it. There was a garden outside the window, but I was a little afraid of heights, so I didn’t dare to jump. But the colonel quickly caught up. Wielding a big knife in his hand."
"When he came over with a knife, I blocked it with the tool bag in my hand..."
"This time, your right thumb was cut off?" Shelley asked.
"Yes." Hatherley glanced at his bandaged right hand, which had long been numb with pain, "I'm left-handed, so while blocking the knife, I took a big wrench in my left hand and hit the colonel hard on the head. , a sharp pain caused the tool bag to fall to the ground, but I didn’t have time to pick it up, because I saw that fat man chasing after me, so I didn’t care about heights, so I quickly climbed up the window and jumped down. The window is not too high, I didn't fall, but I felt dizzy and nauseous with pain in my right hand, and it wasn't until then that I realized that my right thumb had been chopped off."
"But I knew I was not out of danger, so I could only wrap my hands in a handkerchief and try to run forward, but the dizziness made me unable to get up when I tripped over a bush of roses. At this time, the thin young man He ran over suddenly, tried to drag me up from the ground, and shouted: 'Run, they will kill you, hurry, the car is here.'”
"He has already driven the car outside the garden. We straddled the fence and got into the car. He drove me to the train station. He probably drove faster when he was fleeing for his life. This time we only spent ten or so I arrived at the station in minutes. I originally asked him to go to the police station with me, but he refused: "That's my brother. Although he is doing bad things, I can't leave him alone." He said I drove back, and I don't know if his brother will vent his anger on him."
"I walked into the station in a daze. It was still midnight, and I couldn't get out of there. I probably lost my mobile phone when I fell down, and the public phone at the station was broken. I was afraid that those villains would come after me. I could only shrink myself into a ball, hid in the gap between the two walls for a night, and then took the earliest bus into the city. It was only 6 o'clock at that time, and my hand hurt so badly, so I decided to go to the clinic for a bandage first. , it’s hard for this doctor to accompany me here.”
John waved his hand: "It happened that I happened to be on the night shift, so I just left an hour earlier, it doesn't matter."
Sherlock clasped his hands together and propped his chin in thought for a while, then said: "A few months ago, I saw a missing person notice. The missing person was a mechanical engineer who went out after ten o'clock in the evening and then disappeared. See The machine that came to this Colonel Stark is very old, or it was not used properly, and it broke down again in just a few months."
"Oh my God, no wonder that gentleman came to warn me and said so sure they would kill me." Haterley cried out in fear.
"Obviously, this Colonel Hatherley is a very cold person. He will never allow the news to leak out. John, you send Lestrade a message to ask him to come. Although this is interesting, it is not worth me to go in person. Let Lestrade Just take someone to see it, but I think they must have left there long ago."
Johrade called and said, "Sherlock, how can you say that, this gentleman was almost killed, but you only think it's funny, and you don't want to go out and arrest those people. "
"It's been so long, those people must have left long ago, how could it be possible to wait for Mr. Hatherley to bring the police back?"
Lestrade arrived soon. There are some £20 banknotes circulating in the market recently. They are so realistic that no one can recognize them except machines.Scotland Yard has been tracking down the source of the counterfeit money, but they have no clue at all. Now that they have finally surfaced, of course they cannot let it go.
But they didn't catch anyone, and when they reached their destination, the house was empty, and both people and machines were gone. Hatherley said reluctantly: "This is the window I jumped from, and this is the flower bush I fell...No, we only walked 7 miles, and we must have walked at least 12 miles last night."
Sherlock still came after all, because Shelley said he wanted to see the money printing machine, and John also thought he should come.Because of this, he was in a bad mood, and snorted: "That's because he took a detour... Wait, look at these ruts, thank God, they are still in Ayjin, yes, they can't run away."
"It's just the maintenance of a machine tool. Although the customer is a bit mysterious and has repeatedly asked for secrecy, and he has to go to Aygin, Berkshire at night, he is willing to pay ten times the cost. Why should I refuse?"
"I took the last train to Ayshire. It was already past eleven o'clock in the evening. It was a small station. There was only one staff member standing under the light on the platform and yawning. When I walked out of the train station, Colonel Stark was standing Waited in the dark, saw me and shoved me into a nearby car with the doors open, without even a nice word."
"What car is that?" Sherlock asked.
"A very ordinary black VW, sir."
Sherlock nodded, motioning for him to continue.
"The road is terrible, like an unrepaired dirt road, and we have been driving on the road for at least half an hour. Colonel Stark said it was only seven miles, but no matter how slow we walked, it should have exceeded 12 miles at least. It was dark outside Humbly, I can’t see anything, and the windows are filmed, and occasionally there is a little bit of dim light, and I can’t see what kind of house it is.”
"I tried to pass the time by chatting to Colonel Stark, but he always dismissed me with a word or two. When we finally reached our destination, I was falling asleep. The car was driving directly into the yard , parked at the gate, I stepped into the gate of the house almost at the same time as I stepped out of the car, and I couldn't see the exterior of the house at all."
"It was pitch black in the house, and the colonel fumbled to turn on the light, as if he was not familiar with this house. At this time, a young man with black hair who looked very thin came out of a room and said to the colonel What are the two sentences? Although I didn't understand them, but I went to two classes with my girlfriend before, and I still recognized that he spoke German."
"The colonel pushed the woman back into the room, and then led me into a study to wait. I sat in silence for a few minutes, when the young man came in, in a low voice, and said something that was not standard. English: 'If I were you I would run away,' he said. It seems that he was trying to make himself calmer, 'If I were you I would run away, I will not stay here. Staying is right You do no good.'”
"He ran away after he finished speaking, and I was even more uncertain about this matter, but I needed this job, and it was almost one o'clock in the morning, so I couldn't leave alone, so I had to continue to wait."
"Colonel Stark entered with a stocky man with a chinchilla beard in the crease of his double chin, who, without introducing me to his companion, asked suspiciously: 'I remember closing the door when I went, The draft is still a bit cold.' I told him I thought the room was a little stuffy, so I opened the door on purpose. He didn't seem to believe my excuse, but said: 'Come on, let's show you the machine, It's upstairs.'”
"It is an ancient house with a labyrinth of corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and low doors, all of which have been sunken. There is no carpet on the ground floor, There is no trace of furniture, the plaster on the wall is peeling and mottled, and some green things are growing. I tried to put on a gesture of indifference, but I did not forget the lady's warning, although I did not Taking it seriously, I still keep an eye on my two companions."
"After walking for several minutes, we stopped in front of a hut with a machine in it, I don't know what it was for, but it was definitely not an ordinary machine tool. Apparently stark went upstairs to trick me, they did It's definitely not a good job, so I can only be tricked into coming here in the middle of the night to avoid attracting attention and not letting me know the exact location. I was terrified at the time, but then I thought that since they would arrange it like this, they would definitely not You will kill me, and you can rest assured."
"The problem with the machine was not very serious, and it took me just over an hour to fix it. When I was packing up my tools, I suddenly saw a bit of paper scraps in a corner of the machine. It was colorful and looked very familiar. Before I could remember what it was, the colonel came over and asked, 'What are you doing?'"
"I was taken aback and I stammered, 'No, it's nothing, I've fixed the machine, it's time to go back.' He gave me a very scary look, and I tried to calm myself and pretend nothing happened. I walked out without noticing it. At that moment, I had already thought about what the scraps of paper were. If I didn’t leave quickly, I would definitely be killed by them. But I was probably too scared. The colonel saw the problem, and he Shouted: "Quick, he found out our secret." He rushed over."
"Fortunately, the fat man whose name I don't know is on the other side of the room. I just need to break through the colonel's line of defense. So I took out my large wrench from my bag and rushed to the door. I rushed out of the hut while dodging the wrench. There was a window at the end of the corridor. I ran to it. There was a garden outside the window, but I was a little afraid of heights, so I didn’t dare to jump. But the colonel quickly caught up. Wielding a big knife in his hand."
"When he came over with a knife, I blocked it with the tool bag in my hand..."
"This time, your right thumb was cut off?" Shelley asked.
"Yes." Hatherley glanced at his bandaged right hand, which had long been numb with pain, "I'm left-handed, so while blocking the knife, I took a big wrench in my left hand and hit the colonel hard on the head. , a sharp pain caused the tool bag to fall to the ground, but I didn’t have time to pick it up, because I saw that fat man chasing after me, so I didn’t care about heights, so I quickly climbed up the window and jumped down. The window is not too high, I didn't fall, but I felt dizzy and nauseous with pain in my right hand, and it wasn't until then that I realized that my right thumb had been chopped off."
"But I knew I was not out of danger, so I could only wrap my hands in a handkerchief and try to run forward, but the dizziness made me unable to get up when I tripped over a bush of roses. At this time, the thin young man He ran over suddenly, tried to drag me up from the ground, and shouted: 'Run, they will kill you, hurry, the car is here.'”
"He has already driven the car outside the garden. We straddled the fence and got into the car. He drove me to the train station. He probably drove faster when he was fleeing for his life. This time we only spent ten or so I arrived at the station in minutes. I originally asked him to go to the police station with me, but he refused: "That's my brother. Although he is doing bad things, I can't leave him alone." He said I drove back, and I don't know if his brother will vent his anger on him."
"I walked into the station in a daze. It was still midnight, and I couldn't get out of there. I probably lost my mobile phone when I fell down, and the public phone at the station was broken. I was afraid that those villains would come after me. I could only shrink myself into a ball, hid in the gap between the two walls for a night, and then took the earliest bus into the city. It was only 6 o'clock at that time, and my hand hurt so badly, so I decided to go to the clinic for a bandage first. , it’s hard for this doctor to accompany me here.”
John waved his hand: "It happened that I happened to be on the night shift, so I just left an hour earlier, it doesn't matter."
Sherlock clasped his hands together and propped his chin in thought for a while, then said: "A few months ago, I saw a missing person notice. The missing person was a mechanical engineer who went out after ten o'clock in the evening and then disappeared. See The machine that came to this Colonel Stark is very old, or it was not used properly, and it broke down again in just a few months."
"Oh my God, no wonder that gentleman came to warn me and said so sure they would kill me." Haterley cried out in fear.
"Obviously, this Colonel Hatherley is a very cold person. He will never allow the news to leak out. John, you send Lestrade a message to ask him to come. Although this is interesting, it is not worth me to go in person. Let Lestrade Just take someone to see it, but I think they must have left there long ago."
Johrade called and said, "Sherlock, how can you say that, this gentleman was almost killed, but you only think it's funny, and you don't want to go out and arrest those people. "
"It's been so long, those people must have left long ago, how could it be possible to wait for Mr. Hatherley to bring the police back?"
Lestrade arrived soon. There are some £20 banknotes circulating in the market recently. They are so realistic that no one can recognize them except machines.Scotland Yard has been tracking down the source of the counterfeit money, but they have no clue at all. Now that they have finally surfaced, of course they cannot let it go.
But they didn't catch anyone, and when they reached their destination, the house was empty, and both people and machines were gone. Hatherley said reluctantly: "This is the window I jumped from, and this is the flower bush I fell...No, we only walked 7 miles, and we must have walked at least 12 miles last night."
Sherlock still came after all, because Shelley said he wanted to see the money printing machine, and John also thought he should come.Because of this, he was in a bad mood, and snorted: "That's because he took a detour... Wait, look at these ruts, thank God, they are still in Ayjin, yes, they can't run away."
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