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"The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159" by Various is a periodical publication likely compiled during the early 20th century. This edition features a significant piece titled "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is a collection of detective stories. The stories revolve around the iconic character Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John Watson as they tackle complex cases, particularly focusing on their latest adventure involving the abduction of a young nobleman. The beginning of this issue introduces readers to a dramatic scenario where Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable arrives at Sherlock Holmes' residence in a state of distress, seeking help for the urgent case of young Lord Saltire's disappearance. The narrative quickly establishes the gravity of the situation, detailing the boy's reportedly mysterious abduction and the implications for his anxious father, the Duke of Holdernesse. As Holmes and Watson learn the details of the case—including potent

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Mr. Chalk, with his mind full of the story he had just heard, walked
homewards like a man in a dream. The air was fragrant with spring and
the scent of lilac revived memories almost forgotten. It took him back
forty years, and showed him a small boy treading the same road, passing
the same houses. Nothing had changed so much as the small boy himself;
nothing had been so unlike the life he had pictured as the life he
had led. Even the blamelessness of the latter yielded no comfort; it
savoured of a lack of spirit.

His mind was still busy with the past when he reached home. Mrs. Chalk,
a woman of imposing appearance, who sat by the window at needlework,
looked up sharply at his entrance. Before she spoke he had a dim idea
that she was excited about something.

"I've got her," she said, triumphantly.

"Oh!" said Mr. Chalk.

"She didn't want to come at first," said Mrs. Chalk: "she'd half
promised to go to Mrs. Morris. Mrs. Morris had heard of her through
Harris, the grocer, and he only knew she was out of a place by
accident. He----"

Her words fell on deaf ears. Mr. Chalk, gazing through the window,
heard without comprehending a long account of the capture of a new
housemaid, which, slightly altered as to name and place, would have
passed muster as an exciting contest between a skilful angler and a
particularly sulky salmon. Mrs. Chalk, noticing his inattention at
last, pulled up sharply.

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