🍯 Dr Huxtable's story 🐝
"My school 🏫 - the Priory School near Mackleton - is the best school for young boys 👦 in England, " began Dr Huxtable. 'We have the son of Lord Soames, Lord Lever, and of many other important people. Three weeks ago Mr. James Wilder, the Duke of Holdernesse's secretary, came to see me. The Duke, he said, wanted to send his son, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, to my school 🏫.
"On the 1st of May young Lord Saltire arrived. He's a nice boy, and he soon began to like school life and to make friends. His life at home, you see, was not very happy _ we all know about the Duke and his wife.👪 The Duchess, of course, now lives in the south of France. She left🚶♀ the Duke about three months ago, I think. But the boy loved his mother, and was very unhappy when she left.😞 Because of this, the Duke sent him to my school. And after two weeks with us, he was much happier. 🤠
'Then, on the night of the 13th of May, he disappeared.☹️ The way to his bedroom is through another, large room. Two older boys sleep there. One of them never sleeps very well, and he heard and saw nothing that night.😕 So young Arthur didn't go out through that room. His window was open, and there's Ivy all up the wall of the house. It is easy to get out the window and down the Ivy to the ground. So we think that he went out that way.
'He was in his usual school things, we think _ a short black coat and dark blue trousers. We looked all through his room very carefully, but we found nothing strange, nothing unusual. 🤔
'When I learn the news at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning,🌄 I called everybody into the big schoolroom. Then we learnt more bad news _ Heidegger, the German teacher, was missing too. His room is not far from Arthur's room. Heideger went down the Ivy _ we know this because we found his footprints 👣 on the ground under the window. We know, too, that he was only in his coat, trousers, and shoes👟 because we found his shirt and socks on the floor of his room. And he took his bicycle 🚲 with him.
'Heidegger came to the school a year ago. He is a good teacher, but the boys don't like him because he isn't very friendly. 😏
'So, Mr Holmes, we have two missing people. It's now Thursday, and there is still no news of them."
Holmes took out a little notebook, and began to write things down. 🗒
"The boy did not go home, of course,' he said.
"No, no. We asked at Holdernesse Hall at once," said Dr Huxtable. "The Duke is very afraid for his son _ and I am the unhappiest man in England.😑 Mr Holmes, you are a famous detective _ please help me!"😔
"My school 🏫 - the Priory School near Mackleton - is the best school for young boys 👦 in England, " began Dr Huxtable. 'We have the son of Lord Soames, Lord Lever, and of many other important people. Three weeks ago Mr. James Wilder, the Duke of Holdernesse's secretary, came to see me. The Duke, he said, wanted to send his son, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, to my school 🏫.
"On the 1st of May young Lord Saltire arrived. He's a nice boy, and he soon began to like school life and to make friends. His life at home, you see, was not very happy _ we all know about the Duke and his wife.👪 The Duchess, of course, now lives in the south of France. She left🚶♀ the Duke about three months ago, I think. But the boy loved his mother, and was very unhappy when she left.😞 Because of this, the Duke sent him to my school. And after two weeks with us, he was much happier. 🤠
'Then, on the night of the 13th of May, he disappeared.☹️ The way to his bedroom is through another, large room. Two older boys sleep there. One of them never sleeps very well, and he heard and saw nothing that night.😕 So young Arthur didn't go out through that room. His window was open, and there's Ivy all up the wall of the house. It is easy to get out the window and down the Ivy to the ground. So we think that he went out that way.
'He was in his usual school things, we think _ a short black coat and dark blue trousers. We looked all through his room very carefully, but we found nothing strange, nothing unusual. 🤔
'When I learn the news at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning,🌄 I called everybody into the big schoolroom. Then we learnt more bad news _ Heidegger, the German teacher, was missing too. His room is not far from Arthur's room. Heideger went down the Ivy _ we know this because we found his footprints 👣 on the ground under the window. We know, too, that he was only in his coat, trousers, and shoes👟 because we found his shirt and socks on the floor of his room. And he took his bicycle 🚲 with him.
'Heidegger came to the school a year ago. He is a good teacher, but the boys don't like him because he isn't very friendly. 😏
'So, Mr Holmes, we have two missing people. It's now Thursday, and there is still no news of them."
Holmes took out a little notebook, and began to write things down. 🗒
"The boy did not go home, of course,' he said.
"No, no. We asked at Holdernesse Hall at once," said Dr Huxtable. "The Duke is very afraid for his son _ and I am the unhappiest man in England.😑 Mr Holmes, you are a famous detective _ please help me!"😔
