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Adventure 3 in his last Bow by 
Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle, this 

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public domain. 

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Adventure 3, The Adventure of 
the red circle part 1. 

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Well, mrs. 
Warren, I cannot see that you 

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have any particular cause for 
uneasiness nor do I understand 

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why I, whose time is of, some 
value should interfere in the 

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matter. 
I really have other things to 

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engage me. 
So spoke Sherlock, Holmes and 

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turned back to the great 
scrapbook in, which she was 

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arranging and indexing, some of 
his recent material, but the 

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landlady had the pertinacity and
also the cunning of her sex, she

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held her ground firmly You 
arranged an affair for a larger 

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of mine last year. 
She said Mr. Fairdale hops are 

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yes, simple matter, but he would
never cease talking of it. 

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Your kindness sir, and the way 
in which you brought light into 

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the darkness. 
I remembered his words. 

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When I was in doubt and darkness
myself, I know you could. 

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If you only would Holmes was 
accessible of on the side of 

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flattery and also to do him 
Justice upon the side of 

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kindness. 
The two forces made him lay 

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down. 
His gun brush with a sigh of 

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resignation and pushed back his 
chair. 

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Well, well mrs. 
Warren, let us hear about it. 

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Then you don't object to 
Tobacco. 

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I take it. 
Thank you, Watson. 

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The matches you are uneasy as I 
understand because your new 

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lodger remains in his rooms and 
you cannot see him. 

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Why bless you mrs. 
Warren, if I were your lodger, 

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you often would not see For 
weeks on end. 

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No doubt sir but this is 
different. 

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It frightens me mr. 
Holmes, I can't sleep for fright

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to hear his quickstep moving 
here and moving their from early

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morning to late at night and yet
never to catch so much as a 

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glimpse of him. 
It's more than I can stand. 

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My husband is as nervous over it
as I am, but he is out at his 

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work all day while I get no rest
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What is he hiding for? 
What has he done? 

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It for the girl, I'm all alone 
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more than my nerves can stand. 
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his long thin fingers upon the 
woman's shoulder. 

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He had an almost hypnotic power 
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scared look faded from her eyes 
and her agitated features 

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smoothed into their usual 
commonplace, she sat down in the

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chair which he had indicated. 
If I take it out by must 

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understand every detail said, he
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smallest Point. 
May be the most essential. 

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You say that the man came ten 
days ago and paid you for a 

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fortnight's board. 
And lodging, he asked, might 

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answer, I said, fifty Shillings 
a week, there is a small sitting

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room and bedroom and all 
complete at the top of the 

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house. 
Well, he said, I'll pay you five

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pounds a week if I can have it 
on my own terms. 

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I'm a poor woman sir and mr. 
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money meant much to me. 
He took out a ten pound note and

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he held it out to me then and 
there you can have the same 

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every Fortnight for a long time 
to come. 

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If you keep the terms, he said 
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with you. 
What were the terms? 

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Well sir, they were that he was 
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was all right. 
Lodges often have them also that

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he was to be left entirely to 
himself and never upon any 

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excuse to be disturbed. 
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Wonderful in that surely not in 
reason sir. 

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But this is out of all reason 
he's been there for ten days and

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neither mr. 
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one set eyes upon him. 
We can hear that quickstep of 

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his pacing up and down up and 
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but except on that first night 
he had never once gone out of 

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the house. 
Oh, he went out the first night,

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did he? 
Yes sir and returned very late 

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after we were all in bed, he 
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rooms that he would do, so and 
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heard him. 
Come up, the stair after 

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midnight. 
But his meals, it was his 

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particular direction that we 
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Leave his meal upon a chair 
outside his door. 

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Then he Rings again when he was 
finished and we take it down 

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from the same chair. 
If he wants anything else, he 

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prints it on a slip of paper and
leaves it prints it. 

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Yes, sir, Prince it in pencil, 
just the word. 

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Nothing more. 
Here's the one I brought to you.

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Show you soap. 
Here's another match. 

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This is the one he left the 
first morning Daily Gazette. 

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I leave that paper with his 
breakfast every morning. 

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Dear me. 
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great curiosity at the slips of 
foolscap, which the landlady had

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handed to him. 
This is certainly a little 

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unusual seclusion I can 
understand but why print 

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printing is a clumsy process, 
why not right? 

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What would it suggests, what sin
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He desire to conceal his 
handwriting but why what can it 

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matter to him that his landlady 
should have a word of his right?

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Still. 
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why such laconic messages. 
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Imagine it opens a pleasing 
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speculation. 
The words are written with a 

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broad pointed Violet, tinted 
pencil of a Not Unusual pattern,

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you will observe that the paper 
is torn away at the side here 

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after the printing was done. 
So that the S of soap is partly 

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gone. 
Watson. 

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Is it not of caution. 
Exactly. 

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There was evidently some Mark, 
some thumbprint something, which

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might give a clue to the 
person's identity. 

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Now, mrs. 
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of middle-sized dark and 
bearded. 

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What age would he be youngish 
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Not over 30. 
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No further indications? 
He spoke good English sir. 

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And yet, I thought he was a 
foreigner by his accent and he 

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was well dressed, very smartly 
dressed sir, quite the gentleman

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dark clothes. 
Nothing. 

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You would note. 
He gave no name no sir and as I 

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had no letters or callers non, 
but surely, you are the girl 

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enter his room of a morning? 
No, sir. 

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He looks after himself entirely.
Dear me, that is certainly 

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remarkable. 
But what about his luggage? 

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He had one big brown bag with 
him, nothing else. 

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Well, we don't seem to have much
material to help us. 

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Do you say nothing has come out 
of that room. 

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Absolutely nothing. 
The landlady, Drew an envelope 

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from her bag from it. 
She shook out to Burnt matches 

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and a cigarette end upon the 
table. 

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They were on his Trail. 
This morning, I brought them 

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because I had heard that you can
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ones, Holmes Shrugged, his 
shoulders. 

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There's nothing here. 
Said he, the matches have, of 

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course, been used to light 
cigarettes, that is obvious from

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the shortness of the burnt end. 
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lighting a pipe or cigar, but 
dear me. 

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This cigarette stub is certainly
remarkable. 

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The gentleman was bearded and 
moustached you say, yes, sir. 

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I don't understand that. 
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clean-shaven, man could have 
smoked this. 

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Why Watson? 
Even your modest mustache would 

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have been singed a holder? 
I suggested, no. 

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No, the end is matted. 
I suppose that could not be to 

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people in your rooms mrs. 
Warren. 

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No sir. 
He eats so little, as I often 

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wondered can keep life. 
One. 

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Well, I think we must wait for a
little more material. 

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After all, you have nothing to 
complain of. 

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You have received your rent and 
he is not a Troublesome lodger. 

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No, he is certainly an unusual 
one, he pays you. 

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Well, and if he chooses to lie 
concealed it is no Direct 

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business of yours. 
We have no excuse for an 

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intrusion upon his privacy. 
Until we have some reason to 

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think that there is a guilty 
reason for it. 

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I've taken up the matter and I 
won't lose sight of it report to

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me. 
If anything, fresh occurs, and 

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rely upon my assistants, if it 
should be needed. 

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There are certainly some points 
of interest in this case Watson,

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he remarked when the landlady 
had left us. 

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It may have caused be trivial 
individual eccentricity or it 

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may be very much deeper than 
appears on the surface. 

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The first thing that strikes one
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the person. 
Now, in the rooms may be 

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entirely different from the one 
who engaged them. 

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Why should you think so? 
Well, apart from this cigarette 

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end, was it not suggestive? 
That the only time the lodger 

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went out was immediately after 
his taking the rooms? 

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He came back or someone came 
back. 

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When all Witnesses were out of 
the way, we have no proof that 

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the person who came back was the
person who went out. 

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Then again, the man who took the
room spoke English. 

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Well, this other however, prints
match when it should have been 

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matches are Imagine that the 
word was taken out of a 

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dictionary which would give the 
noun, but not the plural, the 

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laconic style, maybe to conceal 
the absence of knowledge of 

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English. 
Yes, Watson. 

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There are good reasons to 
suspect. 

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There has been a substitution of
lodges But for what possible 

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end. 
Ah, there lies our problem. 

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There is one rather obvious line
of Investigation. 

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He took down the great book in 
which day, by day. 

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He filed. 
The agony column of the various 

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London journals. 
Dear me said he turning over the

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pages, water chorus, of groans, 
cries and bleating 's, what a 

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ragbag of singular happenings, 
but surely the most valuable 

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hunting ground that ever was 
given to a student of the 

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unusual. 
This person is alone and cannot 

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be approached by letter without 
a breach of that absolute 

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secrecy, which is desired. 
How is any news, or any message 

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to reach him from without 
obviously, by advertisement 

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through a newspaper, there seems
no other way. 

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And fortunately, we need to 
concern ourselves with one 

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paper. 
Only here are the Daily Gazette 

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extracts of the last Fortnight 
lady with a black bow at 

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Prince's Skating Club. 
That we may pass. 

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Surely Jimmy will not break his 
mother's heart. 

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That appears to be irrelevant if
the lady who fainted on Brixton 

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bus she does not interest me 
every day my heart longs 

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bleeped, Watson, unmitigated 
bleat this is a little more 

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possible. 
Listen to this be patient, we'll

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find some sure means of 
communications. 

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Meanwhile this column That is 
two days after mrs. 

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Warrens lodger arrived. 
It sounds plausible. 

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Does it not the mysterious one 
could understand English even if

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he could not print it? 
Let us see if we can pick up the

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trace again. 
Yes, here we are three days 

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later and making successful 
Arrangements patience and 

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prudence the clouds will pass. 
Gee nothing for a week after 

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that. 
Then come something much more 

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definite. 
The path is clearing if I find 

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chance signal message. 
Remember code. 

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Agreed. 1 a 2 B and so on you 
will hear soon. 

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Gee that was in yesterday's 
paper and there is nothing in 

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today's it's all very 
appropriate to mrs. 

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Warrens lodger if we wait a 
little Watson I don't doubt that

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the affair will grow more 
intelligible. 

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So it proved four in the 
morning. 

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I found my friends standing on 
the hearthrug with his back to 

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the fire and a smile of complete
satisfaction upon his face. 

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How's this Watson? 
He cried picking up the paper 

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from the table. 
Hi, red house with white stone 

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facings, third floor, second 
window left after dusk G. 

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That is definite enough. 
I think after breakfast, we must

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make a little reconnaissance of 
mrs. 

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Warrens neighborhood. 
Mrs. Warren, what news do you 

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bring us this morning? 
Our client had suddenly burst 

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into the room with an explosive 
energy, which told us some new 

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and momentous development hits, 
a police matter mr. 

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Holmes, she cried, I'll have no 
more of it. 

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He shall pack out of there with 
his baggage. 

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I would have gone straight up 
and told him. 

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So only I thought it was but 
fair to you to take your opinion

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first, but I'm at the very end 
of my patience and when it comes

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to knocking my old man, About 
knocking mr. 

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Warren about using him roughly 
anyway, but who used him 

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roughly. 
Oh, that's what we want to know.

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It was this morning, sir, mr. 
Warren is a timekeeper at Morton

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and way lights in Tottenham 
Court Road. 

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He has to be out of the house 
before seven. 

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Well, this morning he had not 
gone ten Paces down the road. 

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When two men came up behind him 
through a coat over his head, 

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and bundled him into a cab. 
Was beside the curb, they drove 

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him an hour, and then opened the
door and shut him out. 

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He lay in the roadway. 
So shaken in his wits that he 

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never saw what became of the cab
when he picked himself up. 

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He found he was on Hampstead 
Heath. 

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So he took a bus home and there 
he lies. 

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Now on his sofa. 
While I came straight round to 

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tell you what had happened. 
Most interesting said Holmes and

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did he observe the appearance of
these men? 

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Did he hear them talk? 
No he is. 

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Clean dazed. 
He just knows that he was lifted

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up as if by Magic and dropped as
if by Magic to at least were in 

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it and maybe three and you 
connect this attack with your 

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lodger Well, we've lived there 
15 years and no such happenings 

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ever came before. 
I've had enough of him. 

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Money's not everything. 
I'll have him out of my house 

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before the day is done. 
Wait a bit mrs. 

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Warren do nothing rash. 
I begin to think that this 

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affair may be very much more 
important than appeared at first

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sight. 
It is clear. 

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Now that some dangerous 
threatening your lodger, it is 

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equally clear. 
That is enemies. 

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Lying in wait for him near your 
door, mistook your husband for 

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him. 
In the foggy morning, light on 

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discovering their mistake. 
They released him. 

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What they would have done, had 
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only conjecture. 
Well, what am I to do? 

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Mr. Holmes, I have a great fancy
to see this lodger of yours. 

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Mrs. Warren. 
I don't see how that is to be 

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managed unless you break in the 
door. 

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I always hear him unlock it, as 
I go down the stair. 

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After I leave the tray. 
He has to take the tray in 

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surely, we could conceal 
ourselves and see him do it. 

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The landlady thought for a 
moment, well, sir there's the 

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Box room opposite, I could 
arrange a Looking Glass, maybe. 

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And if you're behind the door, 
excellent said. 

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Holmes, when does he lunch about
one sir then? 

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Dr. Watson and I will come 
around in time for the present. 

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Mrs. Warren goodbye. 
At 12:30, we found ourselves 

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upon the steps of mrs. 
Warren's house, a high thin, 

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Yellow Brick, edifice in Great, 
Ormond, Street, and narrow 

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thoroughfare at the Northeast 
side of the British museum 

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standing as it does near the 
corner of the street. 

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The commands of you down, how 
street with its more pretentious

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houses, Holmes pointed with a 
chuckle, to one of these are row

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of residential Flats which 
projected so that they could not

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fail to catch the eye. 
See, Watson said he, hi, red 

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house with stone facings. 
There is the signal station. 

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All right, we know the place and
we know the code. 

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So surely our task should be 
simple. 

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There's a to let card in that 
window. 

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It is evidently an empty flat to
which the Confederate has 

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access. 
Well mrs. 

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Warren what. 
Now, I have it all ready for you

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if you will both come up and 
leave your boots Below on the 

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landing. 
I'll put you that now. 

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It was an excellent hiding place
which she had arranged. 

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The mirror was so placed that 
seated in the dark, we could 

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very plainly. 
See the door opposite. 

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We had hardly settled down in it
and mrs. 

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Warren left us when a distant 
tinkle announce that our 

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mysterious neighbor had rung. 
Presently the landlady appeared 

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with the tray laid, it down upon
a chair, beside the closed door,

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and then treading heavily 
departed. 

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Crouching together in the angle 
of the door, we kept our eyes 

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fixed upon the mirror suddenly 
as the landlady's, footsteps 

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died away. 
There was the Creak of a turning

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key the handle revolved and too 
thin hands. 

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Darted out and lifted the tray 
from the chair. 

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An instant later it was 
hurriedly replaced and I caught 

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a glimpse of a dark beautiful 
horrified face glaring at the 

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narrow opening of the Box room, 
then the door crash to the key 

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turned. 
Once more and all was silence 

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homes, twist my sleeve and 
together, we stole down the 

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stair. 
I will call again in the 

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evening, said he to the 
expectant landlady. 

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I think Watson, we can discuss 
this business better in our own 

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quarters. 
My surmise, as you saw proved to

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be correct. 
Said he speaking from the depths

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of his easy chair, there has 
been a substitution of lodges. 

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What I did not foresee, is that 
we should find a woman and no 

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ordinary woman Watson. 
She saw us. 

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Well, she saw something to alarm
her. 

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That is certain the general 
sequence of events is pretty 

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clear. 
Is it not a couple seek refuge 

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in London from a very terrible 
and Danger. 

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The measure of that danger is 
the rigor of their precautions. 

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The man who has some work, which
he must do desires to leave the 

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woman in absolute safety while 
he does. 

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It, it is not an easy problem, 
but he solved it in an original 

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fashion and so effectively that 
her presence was not even known 

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to the landlady who supplies her
with food, the printed messages 

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as is now evident were to 
prevent her sex being discovered

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by her writing. 
The man cannot come near the 

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woman or he will guide their 
enemies to her. 

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Since he cannot communicate with
her direct, he has recourse to 

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the agony column of a paper. 
So far all is clear but what is 

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at the root of it? 
Ah, yes, Watson, severely 

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practical as usual. 
What is at the root of it? 

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All mrs. 
Warrens Whimsical problem, in 

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largest somewhat and assumes a 
more Sinister aspect as Proceed 

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this much, we can say that it 
is. 

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No Ordinary Love, Escapade. 
You saw the woman's face at the 

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sign of danger. 
We have heard two of the attack 

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upon the landlord, which was 
undoubtedly meant for the 

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lodger. 
These alarms and the desperate 

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need for secrecy argue that. 
The matter is one of life or 

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death, the attack upon mr. 
Warren further shows that the 

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enemy whoever they are are 
themselves not aware of the 

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Substitution of the female 
lodger for the mail. 

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It is very curious and complex 
Watson. 

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Why should you go further in it?
What have you to gain from it? 

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What indeed? 
It is Art For Art's Sake Watson.

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I suppose, when you doctored you
found yourself studying cases 

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without thought of a fee, for my
education, homes education, 

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never ends Watson. 
It is a series of lessons with 

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the greatest for the last, this 
is an instructive case. 

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There is neither money nor 
Credit in it and yet one would 

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wish to tidy it up. 
When dust comes, we should find 

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ourselves one stage advanced in 
our investigation. 

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When we return to mrs. 
Warrens rooms. 

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The Gloom of a London. 
Winter evening had sickened into

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one grey curtain, a dead 
monotone of color broken, only 

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by the sharp yellow squares of 
the windows and the Blurred 

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Halos of the gas lamps as we 
peered from the darkened, 

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sitting room of the lodging 
house, one more dim light, 

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glimmered. 
High up through the obscurity. 

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Someone is moving in that room 
said Holmes in a whisper his 

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gaunt and eager face. 
Thrust forward to the 

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windowpane. 
Yes, I can see his shadow. 

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There he is, again, he has a 
candle in his hand. 

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Now he is peering across. 
He wants to be sure that she is 

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on the lookout. 
Now he begins to flash take the 

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message. 
Also Watson that we may check 

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each other. 
A single flash. 

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That is a surely. 
Now, then, how many did you make

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it 20? 
So, did I that That should mean 

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t-80 that's intelligible enough.
Another tea surely this is the 

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beginning of a second word. 
Now then tenter dead, stop. 

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That can't be all Watson at 
enter gives no sense. 

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Nor is it any better as three 
words at 10 tar unless ta are a 

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person's initials. 
There it goes again. 

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What's that? 
Tte, why it is a same message 

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over again. 
Curious Watson. 

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Very curious. 
Now he's off once more 80. 

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Why he is repeating it for the 
third time? 

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ATT ENT, a at enter three times.
How often will you repeat it? 

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No, that seems to be the Finish.
He's withdrawn from the window. 

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What do you make of it? 
Watson, a cipher message homes? 

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My companion gave a sudden 
chuckle of comprehension and not

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a very obscure Cipher Watson 
said he why? 

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Of course it is Italian. 
The a means that it is addressed

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to a woman, beware beware, 
beware, how's that Watson? 

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I believe you've hit it. 
No doubt of it. 

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It is a very urgent message, 
Thrice, repeated to make it 

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more. 
So, But beware of what? 

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Wait? 
A bit. 

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He's coming to the window once 
more. 

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Again we saw the dim silhouette 
of a crouching man and the Whisk

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of the small flame across the 
window as the signals were 

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renewed, they came more rapidly 
than before. 

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So rapid that it was hard to 
follow them. 

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Perico low Petty collaroy. 
What's that Watson danger? 

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Isn't it? 
Yes, by jove it's a danger 

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signal. 
Here he goes again a pear, tree.

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Hello what on Earth the light 
had, suddenly gone out the 

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glimmering square of window and 
disappeared. 

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In the third floor, formed a 
dark band around the lofty. 

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Building with its tears of 
shining casements. 

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That last warning cry had been 
suddenly cut short, how and by 

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whom the same thought occurred 
on the instant to us both Holmes

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sprang up from where he crouched
by the window. 

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This is serious Watson. 
He cried there is some devilry 

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going forward. 
Why should such a message stop 

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in such a way? 
I should put Scotland Yard in 

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touch with this business and yet
it is too pressing for us to 

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leave. 
Shall I go for the police? 

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We must Define the situation a 
little more clearly it may bear 

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some more innocent 
interpretation come Watson. 

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Let us go across ourselves and 
see what we can make of it. 

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And the adventure of the red 
circle, part 1. 

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And the adventure of the red 
circle, part 1.