Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories · The Stock Broker's Clerk - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 27 Jun 2026
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On the one hand, I was definitely engaged, and I had under a pound in my pocket.
On the other, the look of the offices, the absence of name on the wall, and other of the points which would strike a businessman, had left a bad impression as to the position of my employers.
However, come what might, I had my money, so I settled down to my task.
All Sunday I was kept hard at work, and yet by Monday I had only got as far as H. I went round to my employer, found him in the same dismantled kind of room, and was told to keep at it until Wednesday, and then come again.
On Wednesday it was still unfinished, so I hammered away until Friday, that is, yesterday, then I brought it round to Mr. Harry Pinner.
"'Thank you very much,' said he.
"'I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task.'
"'This list will be of very material assistance to me.'
"'It took some time,' said I.
"'And now,' said he, "'I want you to make a list of the furniture shops, "'for they all sell crockery.'
"'Very good.
"'And you can come up to-morrow evening at seven "'and let me know how you're getting on.
"'Don't overwork yourself.
"'A couple of hours a day's music all in the evening "'would do you no harm after your labours.'
"'He laughed as he spoke.'
and I saw with a thrill that his second tooth upon the left-hand side had been very badly stuffed with gold.
Sherlock Holmes rubbed his hands with delight, and I stared with astonishment at our client.
"'You may well look surprised, Dr. Watson, but it is this way,' said he.
"'When I was speaking to the other chap in London, at a time that he laughed at my not going to Mawson's, I happened to notice that his tooth was stuffed in this very identical fashion.'
The glint of the gold in each case caught my eye, you see.
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