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Story number 3 in The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes by Sir, 

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Arthur Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Story number 3, a case of 

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identity. 
My dear fellow said Sherlock 

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Holmes, as we sat on either side
of the fire in his lodgings at 

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Baker, Street life is infinitely
Stranger Than Anything, which 

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the mind of man could invent. 
We would not dare to conceive. 

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The things which are really mere
commonplaces of existence. 

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If we could fly out of that 
window hand in hand, hover over 

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this great City, gently remove 
the roofs and Peep in at the 

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queer things which are going on.
The strange coincidences the 

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planning's. 
Things the cross purposes, the 

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wonderful chains of events 
working through generations and 

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leading to the most outré 
results. 

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It would make all Fiction with 
its conventionalities and 

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foreseen conclusions, most stale
and unprofitable. 

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And yet I'm not convinced of it.
I answered the cases which come 

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to light in the papers are as a 
rule bald enough and vulgar 

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enough we have in our police 
reports realism pushed to its 

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extreme limits. 
Yet the result is it must be 

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confessed. 
Neither fascinating, nor 

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artistic, certain selection. 
And discretion must be used in 

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producing a realistic effect 
remarked Holmes. 

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This is wanting in the police 
report. 

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We're more stress is laid, 
perhaps upon the platitudes of 

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the magistrate than upon the 
details which to an observer 

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contain the vital essence of the
whole matter depend upon it. 

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There is nothing so unnatural as
the commonplace. 

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I smiled and shook my head. 
I can quite understand your 

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thinking. 
So I said, of course, in your 

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position of unofficial adviser 
and helper to everybody who is 

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absolutely puzzled throughout 
three continents. 

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You are brought in contact with 
all that is strange and bizarre 

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but here I picked up the morning
paper from the ground. 

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Let us put it to a practical 
test. 

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Here is the first heading upon 
which I come a husband's cruelty

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to his wife. 
There's half a column of print, 

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but I know without reading it 
that it is all perfectly 

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familiar to me. 
There is of course, The Other 

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Woman, the drink, the push, the 
blow, the bruise, the 

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sympathetic sister or landlady. 
The crudest of writers could 

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invent nothing more crude 
indeed. 

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Your example is an unfortunate 
one. 

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For your argument said, Holmes, 
taking the paper and glancing, 

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his eye down. 
It. 

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This is the Dundas, separation 
case. 

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And as it happens, I was engaged
in clearing up some small points

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in connection with it. 
The husband was a teetotaler, 

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there was no other woman and the
conduct complained of was that 

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he had drifted into the habit of
winding up every meal by taking 

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out his false teeth and hurling 
them at his wife, which you will

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allow is not an action likely to
occur to the imagination of the 

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average storyteller. 
Take a pinch of snuff doctor and

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acknowledge that I have scored 
over you in your example. 

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He held out his snuffbox of old 
gold with a great Amethyst in 

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the center of the lid. 
Its Splendor was in such 

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contrast to his homely ways and 
simple life that I could not 

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help commenting upon it. 
Ah said he, I forgot that I had 

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not seen you for some weeks. 
It is a little souvenir from the

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king of bohemia in return for my
assistance. 

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In the case. 
The Irene Adler papers and the 

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ring, I asked glancing at a 
remarkable brilliant. 

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Which sparkled upon his finger. 
It was from the reigning family 

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of Holland know the matter in 
which I served them was of such 

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delicacy that I cannot confide 
it even to you who have been 

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good enough to Chronicle one or 
two of my little problems and 

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have you any on hand just now I 
asked with interest. 

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Some ten or twelve, but none, 
which present any feature of 

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Interest. 
They are important to understand

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without being interesting. 
Indeed. 

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I have found that it is usually 
in unimportant matters that 

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there is a field for the 
observation and for the quick 

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analysis of cause and effect, 
which gives the charm to an 

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investigation. 
The larger crimes are apt to be 

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the simpler for the bigger, the 
crime. 

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The more obvious as a rule is 
the motive in these cases, save 

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for one rather intricate matter,
which has been referred to me 

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from Marseilles. 
There is nothing which presents 

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any features of Interest. 
It is possible. 

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However, as I may have something
better before very many minutes 

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are over for, this is one of my 
clients or I am much mistaken. 

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He had risen from his chair and 
was Nothing between the parted 

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blinds gazing down into the 
dull. 

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Neutral-tinted, London Street 
looking over his shoulder. 

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I saw that on the pavement 
opposite there. 

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Stood a large woman with a heavy
fur boa around her neck and a 

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large curling Red Feather in a 
broad-brimmed hat, which was 

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tilted in a coquettish, Duchess 
of Devonshire fashion. 

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Over her ear from under this 
great panoply. 

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She peeped up in a nervous, 
hesitating fashion at our 

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Windows, while her A body, 
oscillated backward and forward 

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and her fingers fidgeted with 
her glove buttons. 

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Suddenly with a plunge, as of 
the swimmer, who leaves the 

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bank, she hurried across the 
road and we heard the sharp 

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clang of the bell. 
I have seen those symptoms 

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before said Holmes throwing his 
cigarette Into the Fire 

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oscillation upon the pavement. 
Always means an affaire de 

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Coeur. 
She would like advice but is not

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sure that the matter is not too 
delicate. 

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It for communication. 
And yet even here we may 

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discriminate. 
When a woman has been seriously 

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wronged by a man. 
She no longer oscillates and the

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usual symptom is a broken Bell 
wire here. 

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We may take it that there is a 
love matter, but that the maiden

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is not so much angry as 
perplexed or grieved. 

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But here she comes in person to 
resolve our doubts. 

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As he spoke, there was a tap at 
the door and the boy in buttons 

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entered to announce Miss Mary 
Sutherland, while the lady 

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herself loomed behind his small,
black figure like a full sailed 

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merchantman behind a tiny pilot 
boat, Sherlock Holmes welcomed 

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her with the easy courtesy, for 
which he was remarkable and 

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having closed the door and bowed
her into an armchair. 

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He looked her over in the minute
and yet abstracted fashion, 

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which was peculiar to him. 
Do you not find? 

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He said that with your short 
sight? 

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It is a little trying to do so 
much typewriting. 

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I did at first, she answered but
now I know where the letters are

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without looking. 
Then suddenly realising the full

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purport of his words. 
She gave a violent start, and 

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looked up with fear and 
astonishment, upon her broad 

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good-humoured, face. 
You've heard about me. 

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Mr. Holmes, she cried else. 
How could, you know, all that? 

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Never mind said, Holmes 
laughing? 

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It is my business to know 
things. 

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Perhaps, I've trained myself to 
see what others Overlook. 

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If not, why should you come to 
consult me? 

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I came to you, sir, because I 
heard of you from mrs. 

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Etheridge. 
Whose husband, you found so easy

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when the police and everyone had
given him up for Dead. 

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Oh, mr. 
Holmes. 

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I wish you would do as much for 
me. 

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I'm not rich, but still, I have 
a hundred year in my own right. 

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Besides the little that I make 
by the machine and I would give 

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it all to know what has become 
of mr. 

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Hosmer, Angel. 
Why did you come away to consult

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me in such a hurry? 
Ask? 

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Sherlock Holmes with his 
fingertips together and his eyes

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to the ceiling. 
Again. 

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A startled look came over. 
The somewhat vacuous face of 

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Miss Mary Sutherland. 
Yes, I did. 

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Bang out of the house. 
She said for it made me angry to

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see the easy way in which mr. 
Windibank. 

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That is my father, took it all 
he would not go to the police 

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and he would not go to you. 
And so at last as he would do 

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nothing and kept on saying that 
there was no harm done. 

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It made me mad and I just on 
with my things and came right 

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away to you. 
Your father said, Holmes, your 

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stepfather. 
Surely since the name is 

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different. 
Yes, my stepfather. 

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I call him father though. 
It sounds funny to, for he is 

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only five years and two months 
older than myself. 

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And your mother is alive. 
Oh, yes, mother is Alive. 

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And Well, I wasn't best pleased.
Mr. Holmes, when she married 

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again, so soon after father's 
death, and a man who was nearly 

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15 years younger than herself. 
Father, was a plumber in the 

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Tottenham Court Road, and he 
left a tidy business behind him 

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which mother carried on with mr.
Hardy the foreman but when mr. 

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Windibank came, he made her sell
the business for he was very 

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Superior being a Traveller in 
wines. 

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They got four thousand seven 
hundred pounds for the Goodwill 

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and interest which wasn't near 
as much as father could have got

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if he had been alive. 
I had expected to see Sherlock 

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Holmes impatient under this 
rambling and inconsequential 

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narrative, but on the contrary, 
he had listened with the 

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greatest concentration of 
attention. 

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Your own little income. 
He asked, does it come out of 

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the business? 
Oh, no, sir. 

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It is quite separate and was 
left me by my uncle, Ned in 

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Auckland. 
It is in New Zealand stock 

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paying four and a half percent. 
2,500 pounds was the amount. 

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But I Only touch the interest, 
you interest me? 

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Extremely said Holmes. 
And since you draw so large, a 

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sum as a hundred a year with 
what you earn into the bargain. 

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You no doubt. 
Travel a little and indulge 

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yourself in every way. 
I believe that a single lady can

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get on very nicely upon an 
income of about 60 pounds. 

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I could do with much less than 
that. 

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Mr. Holmes, but you understand 
that, as long as I live at home.

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I don't wish to be a burden to 
them. 

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And so they have the use of the 
money just while I'm staying 

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with them. 
Of course, that is only just for

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the time. 
Mr. Windibank draws my interest,

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every quarter and pays it over 
to my mother. 

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And I found that I can do pretty
well with what I earn at 

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typewriting. 
It brings me to Pence a sheet 

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and I can often do from fifteen 
to She eats in a day. 

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You have made your position. 
Very clear to me said Holmes. 

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This is my friend. 
Dr. Watson before whom you can 

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speak as freely as before 
myself. 

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Kindly tell us now all about 
your connection with mr. 

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Hosmer angel. 
A flush stole over Miss 

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Sutherlands face and she picked 
nervously at The Fringe of her 

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jacket. 
I met him first at the 

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gas-fitters ball. 
She said they used to send 

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Father tickets when he was alive
and then afterwards, they 

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remembered us and sent them to 
Mother. 

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Mr. Windibank did not wish us to
go. 

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He never did wish us to go 
anywhere. 

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He would get quite mad if I 
wanted so much as to join a 

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sunday-school treat, but this 
time I was set on going. 

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I would go for what right had he
to prevent. 

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He said that folk were not fit 
for us to know when all father's

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friends were to be there. 
And he said that, I had nothing 

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fit to wear. 
When I had my purple plush that 

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I'd never so much as taken out 
of the drawer. 

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At last, when nothing else would
do. 

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He went off to France upon the 
business of the firm, but we 

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went mother and I with mr. 
Hardy who used to be our foreman

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and it was there. 
I met mr. 

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Hosmer angel. 
I suppose said Holmes that when 

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mr. 
Windibank came back from France.

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He was very annoyed at your 
having gone to the ball. 

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Oh, well, he was very good about
it. 

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He laughed. 
I remember, and Shrugged, his 

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shoulders and said there was no 
use denying anything to a woman 

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for she would have her way. 
I see then at the gas-fitters 

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ball, you met, as I understand 
the gentleman called. 

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Mr. Hosmer Angel. 
Yes, sir. 

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I met him that night and he 
called next day to ask if we 

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could got home all safe. 
And after that we met him. 

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That is to say mr. 
Holmes. 

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I met him twice for walks, but 
after that father came back 

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again, and mr. 
Hosmer. 

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Angel could not come to the 
house anymore. 

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No, well, you know, father 
didn't like anything of the 

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sort. 
He wouldn't have any visitors if

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he could help it and used to say
that a woman should be happy in 

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her own Family Circle, but then,
as I used to say, to mother a 

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woman wants her own Circle to 
begin with and I had not got 

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mine yet. 
But how about mr. 

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Hosmer Angel did he make no 
attempt to see you. 

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Well, father was going off to 
France again in a week and 

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Hosmer wrote and said that it 
would be safer and better not to

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see each other, until he had 
gone. 

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We could write in the meantime 
and used to write every day. 

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I took the letters in in the 
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for father to know. 
Were you engaged to the 

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gentleman at this time? 
Oh, yes. 

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Mr. Holmes. 
We were engaged after the first 

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walk that we took Hosmer. 
Mr. Angel was a cashier in an 

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office in leadenhall Street. 
And what office? 

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That's the worst of it. 
Mr. Holmes. 

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I don't know. 
Where did he live? 

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Then? 
He slept on the premises and you

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don't know his address. 
No, except that. 

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It was leadenhall Street. 
Where did you address your 

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letters? 
Then to the leadenhall Street 

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post office to be left till 
called for he said that if they 

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were sent to the office, he 
would be chaffed by all the 

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other clerks about having 
letters from A lady. 

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So I offered to typewrite them 
like he did his, but he wouldn't

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have that for. 
He said that when I wrote them, 

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they seem to come from me, but 
when they were Typewritten, he 

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always felt that. 
The machine had come between us.

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That will just show you how fond
he was of me. 

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Mr. Holmes. 
And the little things that he 

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would think of it was most 
suggestive, said, Holmes. 

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It has long been an axiom of 
mine that the little things are 

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infinitely. 
The most important. 

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Can you remember any other 
little things about? 

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Mr. Hosmer, Angel? 
He was a very shy man. 

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Mr. Holmes, he would rather walk
with me in the evening than in 

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the daylight. 
For he said that he Hated to be 

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conspicuous very retiring. 
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voice was gentle, he'd had the 
Quinsy and swollen glands, when 

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he was young. 
He told me and it had left him 

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with a weak throat and a 
hesitating Whispering fashion of

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speech. 
He was always well dressed. 

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Very neat and plain, but his 
eyes were weak. 

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Just as mine are and he wore 
tinted glasses against the 

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glare. 
Well, and what happened when mr.

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Windibank your stepfather 
returned to France. 

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Mr. Hosmer, angel came to the 
house again and proposed that we

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should marry before. 
Father came back. 

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He was in Dreadful Earnest and 
made me swear with my hands on 

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The Testament that whatever 
happened. 

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I would always be true to him. 
Mother said he was quite right 

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to make me swear and that it was
a sign of his passion. 

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Mother was all in his favour 
from the first and was even 

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fonder of him than I was. 
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marrying within the week. 
I began to ask about father, but

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they both said never mind about 
father, but just to tell him 

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afterwards and mother said she 
would make it. 

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All right with him. 
I didn't quite like that. 

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Mr. Holmes. 
It seemed funny that I should 

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ask his leave as he was only a 
few years older than me. 

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But I didn't want to do anything
on the sly. 

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So I wrote to father at Bordeaux
where the company has its French

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offices. 
But the letter came back to me 

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on the very morning of the 
wedding. 

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It's missed him. 
Then. 

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Yes, sir. 
For he had started to England 

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just before it arrived. 
Ha. 

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That was unfortunate. 
Your wedding was arranged then 

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for the Friday. 
Was it to be in church? 

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Yes, sir, but very Lee. 
It was to be at st. 

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Saviour's near Kings Cross and 
we were to have breakfast 

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afterwards at the st. 
Pancras Hotel. 

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Hosmer came for us in a hansom. 
But as there were two of us, he 

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put us both into it and stepped 
himself into a four-wheeler. 

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Which happened to be the only 
other Cab in the street. 

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We got to the church first and 
when the four-wheeler drove up, 

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we waited for him to step out. 
But he never did. 

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And when the cabman got down 
from the box and looked there 

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was no one there. 
The cabman said he could not 

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imagine what had become of him 
for. 

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He had seen him get in with his 
own eyes. 

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That was last Friday. 
Mr. Holmes, and I have never 

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seen or heard anything since to 
throw any light upon what became

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of him. 
It seems to me that you have 

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been very shamefully. 
Treated said Holmes. 

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Oh, no, sir. 
He was too good and kind to 

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leave me. 
So why all the morning he was 

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saying to me that whatever 
happened. 

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It was to be true and that even 
if something quite unforeseen 

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occurred to separate us. 
I was always to remember that I 

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was pledged to him and that he 
would claim his pledge sooner or

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later. 
It seems strange talk for a 

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wedding morning, but what has 
happened since gives a meaning 

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to it. 
Most certainly it does. 

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Your own opinion, is then that 
some unforeseen catastrophe has 

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occurred to him. 
Yes, sir. 

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I believe that he foresaw some 
danger or else he would not have

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talked. 
So and then I think the what he 

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foresaw happened. 
But you have no notion as to 

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what it could have been. 
None. 

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One more question. 
How did your mother take the 

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matter? 
She was angry and said that I 

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was never to speak of the matter
again. 

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And your father. 
Did you tell him? 

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Yes, and he seemed to think with
me that something had happened 

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and that I should hear of Hosmer
again. 

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As he said, what interest could 
anyone have in bringing me to 

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the doors of the church? 
And then leaving me. 

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Now, if he had borrowed my money
or if he had married me and got 

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my money settled on him. 
There might be some reason, but 

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Hosmer was very independent 
about money and never would look

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at a shilling of mine. 
And yet what could have happened

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and why could he not right? 
Oh, it drives me half-mad to 

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think of it. 
And I can't sleep a wink at 

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night. 
She pulled a little handkerchief

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out of her muff and began to sob
heavily into it. 

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I shall glanced into the case 
for you said Holmes rising and I

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have no doubt that we shall 
reach. 

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Some definite result. 
Let the weight of the matter 

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rest upon me now and do not let 
your mind dwell upon it. 

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Further above all. 
Try to let mr. 

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Hosmer Angel vanish from your 
memory as he has done from your 

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life, then you don't think I'll 
see him again. 

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I fear not then what has 
happened to him. 

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You will leave that question in 
my hands. 

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I should like an accurate 
description of him and any 

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letters of his which you can 
spare. 

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I advertised for him in last 
Saturday's Chronicle said she 

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here is the slip and here are 
four letters from him. 

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Thank you. 
And your address. 

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Number 31, Lyon Place 
camberwell. 

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Mr. Angels address. 
You never had. 

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I understand. 
Where is your father's place of 

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business. 
He travels for westhouse & 

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marbank, The Great Claret 
importers of fenchurch street. 

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Thank you. 
You have made your statement 

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very clearly. 
You will leave the papers here 

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and remember the advice which I 
have given you, let the whole 

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incident, be a sealed book and 
do not allow it to affect your 

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life. 
You are very kind. 

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Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do 
that. 

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I shall be true to Hosmer. 
He shall find me ready when he 

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comes back. 
For all the Preposterous hat and

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the vacuous face. 
There was something Noble in the

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simple Faith of Our visitor, 
which compelled our respect. 

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She laid her little bundle of 
papers upon the table and went 

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her way with a promise to come 
again whenever she might be 

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summoned. 
Sherlock Holmes, sat silent for 

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a few minutes with his 
fingertips, still pressed 

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together. 
His legs stretched out in front 

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of him and his gaze directed 
upward to the ceiling. 

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Then he took down from the rack,
the old and oily clay pipe, 

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which was to him as a counsellor
and having lit it. 

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He leaned back in his chair with
the thick blue cloud, wreaths 

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spinning up from him and a look 
of infinite languor in his face.

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Quite an interesting study that 
Maiden he observed. 

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I found her more interesting 
than her little problem which by

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the way is rather a trite. 
One, you will find parallel 

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cases if you consult my index in
Andover in 77. 

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And there was something of the 
sort at the Hague last year old 

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as is the idea. 
However, there were one or two 

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details, which were new to me, 
but the maiden herself was most 

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instructive. 
You appear to read a good deal 

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upon her, which was quite 
invisible. 

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Me, I remarked Not Invisible, 
but unnoticed Watson. 

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You did not know where to look. 
And so you missed all that was 

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important. 
I can never bring you to realise

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the importance of sleeves, the 
suggestiveness of thumbnails, or

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the great issues that may hang 
from a bootlace. 

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Now, what did you gather from? 
That woman's appearance describe

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it? 
Well, she had a slate-coloured 

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broad-brimmed straw hat, with a 
feather of British red. 

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Jacket was black with black 
beads sewn upon it, and a fringe

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of little black jet ornaments. 
A dress was brown rather darker 

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than coffee Colour with a little
purple plush at the neck and 

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sleeves. 
Her gloves were greyish and were

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worn through at the right 
forefinger her boots. 

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I didn't observe she had small 
round hanging gold earrings and 

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a general air of being fairly 
well-to-do in a vulgar 

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comfortable easygoing way, 
Sherlock Holmes clapped his 

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hands softly together and 
chuckled upon my word Watson. 

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You are coming along. 
Wonderfully. 

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You have really done very well. 
Indeed. 

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It is true that you have missed 
everything of importance, but 

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you have hit The method and you 
have a quick eye for color. 

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Never trust to General 
Impressions. 

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My boy, but concentrate yourself
upon details. 

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My first glance is always at a 
woman's sleeve in a man. 

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It is perhaps better first to 
take the knee of the trouser. 

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As You observe, this woman had 
plush upon her sleeves, which is

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a most useful material for 
showing traces, the double line,

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a little above the wrist, where 
the type rightist presses 

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against a table was beautifully.
Defined. 

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The sewing-machine of the hand, 
type leaves a similar Mark, but 

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only on the left arm and on the 
side of it farthest from the 

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thumb, instead of being right 
across the broadest part, as 

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this was, I then glanced at her 
face and observed, the dint of a

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pince-nez at either side of her 
nose. 

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I ventured a remark upon short, 
sight, and typewriting, which 

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seemed to surprise her it 
surprised me. 

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But surely it was obvious. 
I was then much surprised and 

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interested on glancing down to 
observe that though the boots 

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which she was wearing, were not 
unlike each other. 

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They were really odd ones. 
The one having a slightly 

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decorated toe-cap and the other.
A plain one one was buttoned 

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only in the two lower buttons 
out of five and the other at the

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first, third, and fifth. 
Now, when you see that a young 

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lady, otherwise neatly dressed 
has come. 

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Away from home with odd boots 
half-buttoned. 

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It is no great deduction to say 
that. 

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She came away in a hurry. 
And what else? 

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I asked keenly interested. 
As I always was, by my friends, 

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incisive reasoning. 
I noted in passing that she had 

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written a note before leaving 
home. 

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But after being fully dressed, 
You observe that her right glove

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was torn at the forefinger, but 
you did not apparently see that 

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both glove and finger were 
stained with Violet Ink. 

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She had written in a hurry and 
dipped her pen too deep. 

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It must have been this morning 
or the mark would Remain clear 

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upon the finger. 
All this is amusing though 

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rather Elementary, but I must go
back to business. 

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Watson. 
Would you mind reading me the 

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advertised description of mr. 
Hosmer, angel? 

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I held a little printed slip to 
the light. 

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Missing. 
It said on the morning of the 

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fourteenth, a gentleman named 
Hosmer, Angel about 5 foot 7 

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inches in height strongly built 
sallow, complexion, black hair. 

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A little bald in the Centre 
bushy black side-whiskers, and 

455
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:47,000
Moustache tinted glasses. 
Slight infirmity of speech was 

456
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,500
dressed when last seen in black 
frock-coat faced with silk Black

457
00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,000
waistcoat, Gold, Albert chain 
and grey. 

458
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,000
Harris, Tweed, trousers with 
brown gaiters over elastic-sided

459
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,900
boots, known to have been 
employed in an office in 

460
00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:03,600
leadenhall Street. 
Anybody bringing that to will do

461
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,700
said Holmes as to the letters. 
He continued glancing. 

462
00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:10,100
Over them. 
They are very commonplace. 

463
00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:12,500
Absolutely. 
No clue in them to mr. 

464
00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:17,300
Angel say that he quotes Balzac 
once there is one remarkable 

465
00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:19,300
point. 
However, which will no doubt 

466
00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:21,900
strike you, They are 
typewritten. 

467
00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:26,700
I remarked, not only that, but 
the signature is typewritten. 

468
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,400
Look at the neat, little Hosmer 
Angel at the bottom. 

469
00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:34,900
There is a date to see but no 
superscription except leadenhall

470
00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:39,000
Street, which is rather vague. 
The point about the signature is

471
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,800
very suggestive. 
In fact, we may call it 

472
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,600
conclusive of what my dear 
fellow. 

473
00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:48,600
Is it possible? 
You do not see how strongly it 

474
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,500
Bears upon the case. 
I cannot say that I do unless it

475
00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:55,000
were that he wished to be able 
to deny his signature. 

476
00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:57,700
If an action for breach of 
Promise were instituted. 

477
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,000
No, that was not the point. 
However, I should write two 

478
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000
letters, which has settled the 
matter. 

479
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,300
One is to a firm in the city. 
The other is to the young lady's

480
00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:11,500
stepfather. 
Mr. Windibank asking him whether

481
00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:14,200
he could meet us here at 6:00 
tomorrow evening. 

482
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,400
It is just as well that we 
should do business with the male

483
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,500
relatives. 
And now doctor we can do nothing

484
00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:23,100
until the answers to those 
letters. 

485
00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:25,600
Come. 
So we may put our little problem

486
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,900
upon the shelf for the interim. 
I had had so many reasons to 

487
00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:32,800
believe in my friends. 
Subtle powers of reasoning and 

488
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,400
extraordinary energy and action.
That I felt that he must have 

489
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,700
some solid grounds for the 
assured and easy demeanour with 

490
00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:42,500
which he treated the singular 
mystery, which he had been 

491
00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:46,300
called upon to Fathom. 
Once only had I known him to 

492
00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:48,800
fail in the case of the king of 
Bohemia. 

493
00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:52,200
And of the Irene Adler 
photograph, but when I looked 

494
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,600
back to the weird business of 
the sign of the four and the 

495
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,300
extraordinary circumstances 
connected with the study in 

496
00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:02,300
Scarlet, I felt that it would be
a strange tangle indeed which he

497
00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:06,600
could not unravel. 
I left him then still puffing at

498
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,900
his black, clay pipe with the 
conviction. 

499
00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:10,600
When I came again on the next 
evening. 

500
00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:14,700
I would find that he held in his
hands, all the clues which would

501
00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:17,200
lead up to the identity of the 
disappearing. 

502
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,000
Bridegroom of Miss. 
Mary Sutherland. 

503
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,000
A professional case of great. 
Gravity was engaging my own 

504
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,900
attention at the time and the 
whole of the next day. 

505
00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,200
I was busy at the bedside of the
sufferer. 

506
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,900
It was not until close upon six 
o'clock, but I found myself free

507
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,400
and was able to spring into a 
hansom and drive to Baker 

508
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,000
Street, half afraid that I might
be too late to assist at the 

509
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,600
dénouement of the little 
mystery. 

510
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,400
I found Sherlock Holmes alone. 
However, half asleep with his 

511
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,200
long thin form curled up in the 
recesses of his His armchair a 

512
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,100
formidable array of bottles and 
test-tubes with the pungent 

513
00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:58,200
cleanly smell of hydrochloric 
acid. 

514
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,200
Told me that he had spent his 
day in the chemical work, which 

515
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,800
was so dear to him. 
Well, have you solved it? 

516
00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:09,700
I asked as I hinted. 
Yes, it was the bisulphate of 

517
00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,000
burrito. 
No, no. 

518
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,600
The mystery. 
I cried. 

519
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,800
Oh, that I thought of the salt 
that I had been working upon. 

520
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,500
It was never any mystery in the 
matter though. 

521
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:22,600
As I said yesterday. 
Some of the details are of 

522
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,900
Interest. 
The only drawback is that there 

523
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:26,800
is no law. 
I fear that can touch the 

524
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,300
scoundrel. 
Who was he then? 

525
00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:32,000
And what was his object in 
deserting Miss Sutherland? 

526
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:36,100
The question was hardly out of 
my mouth and Holmes had not yet 

527
00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:39,600
opened his lips to reply when we
heard a heavy footfall in the 

528
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,900
passage and a tap at the door. 
This is the girl's stepfather. 

529
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,000
Mr. James windibank,' Holmes. 
He has written to me to say 

530
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,800
that. 
He would be here at six come in.

531
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,500
The man who entered was a sturdy
middle-sized, fellow, some 

532
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,200
thirty years of age 
clean-shaven, and sallow 

533
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,100
skinned, with a bland 
insinuating Manner, and a pair 

534
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:05,900
of wonderfully, sharp and 
penetrating grey eyes. 

535
00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:08,800
He shot a questioning glance at 
each of us. 

536
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,200
Placed his shiny top-hat upon 
the sideboard and, with a slight

537
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,000
bow sidled down into the nearest
chair. 

538
00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,500
Good evening. 
Mr. James windibank said Holmes.

539
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,800
I think that this typewritten Is
from you in which you made an 

540
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,000
appointment with me for six 
o'clock. 

541
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:30,000
Yes, sir. 
I'm afraid that I'm a little 

542
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,500
late, but I'm not quite my own 
Master. 

543
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:35,900
You know, I am sorry that Miss 
Sutherland has troubled you 

544
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:39,300
about this little matter for I 
think it is far better not to 

545
00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:41,200
wash linen of the sort in 
public. 

546
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,700
It was quite against my wishes 
that she came, but she is a very

547
00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:47,800
excitable impulsive. 
Girl, as you may have noticed, 

548
00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:51,400
and she is not easily controlled
when she's made up her mind on a

549
00:31:51,408 --> 00:31:54,400
point. 
Of course, I did not mind you so

550
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,600
much as you are not connected 
with the official police, but it

551
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,300
is not pleasant to have a family
Misfortune like this noised 

552
00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:07,000
abroad. 
Besides, it is a useless expense

553
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:11,100
for how could you possibly find 
this Hosmer angel on? 

554
00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:13,200
The contrary said, Holmes, 
quietly. 

555
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,500
I have every reason to believe 
that I will succeed in 

556
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,400
discovering. 
Mr. Hosmer angel. 

557
00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:22,800
Mr. Windibank gave a violent 
start and dropped his gloves. 

558
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,300
I'm delighted to hear it. 
He said it is a Curious Thing. 

559
00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:31,400
Remarked Holmes, that a 
typewriter is really quite as 

560
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,700
much individuality as a man's 
handwriting, unless they are 

561
00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:37,800
quite new. 
No, two of them. 

562
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,100
Write exactly. 
Alike. 

563
00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:42,500
Some letters. 
Get more worn than others and 

564
00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:44,300
some wear. 
Only on one side. 

565
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,700
Now, you remark in this note of 
yours, mr. 

566
00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:51,400
Windibank that in every case. 
There is some little slurring 

567
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,000
over of the E and the slight 
defect in the tail of the are. 

568
00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:58,300
There are fourteen other 
characteristics, but those are 

569
00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:02,100
the more obvious. 
We do all our correspondence 

570
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,700
with this machine at the office 
and no doubt. 

571
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:07,800
It is a little worn. 
Our visitor answered glancing. 

572
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,200
Keenly at Holmes with his bright
little eyes. 

573
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:15,100
And now I will show you what is 
really a very interesting study.

574
00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:19,300
Mr. Windibank came continued. 
I think of writing another 

575
00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:21,400
little monograph. 
Some of these days on the 

576
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,800
typewriter and its relation to 
Crime. 

577
00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:27,500
It is a subject to which I have 
devoted some little attention. 

578
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,400
I have here four letters, which 
purport Come from the missing 

579
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,100
man. 
They are all typewritten. 

580
00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:37,600
In each case. 
Not only are the he's slurred 

581
00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:41,600
and the RS tailless, but you 
will observe if you care to use 

582
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,300
my magnifying lens, that the 
Fourteen other characteristics 

583
00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:48,800
to, which I have alluded, are 
there as well, mr. 

584
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,100
Windibank sprang out of his 
chair and picked up his hat. 

585
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,200
I cannot waste time over this 
sort of fantastic talk. 

586
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,800
Mr. Holmes. 
He said, if you can catch the 

587
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,100
man, catch him. 
And let me know when you've 

588
00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:04,300
done. 
It certainly said home stepping 

589
00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:06,500
over and turning the key in the 
door. 

590
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,199
I let you know then that I have 
caught him. 

591
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,500
What? 
Where shouted. 

592
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,800
Mr. Windibank turning white to 
his lips and glancing about him 

593
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,600
like a rat in a trap. 
Oh, it won't do, really it won't

594
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,100
said Holmes suavely. 
There is no possible getting out

595
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:25,400
of it. 
Mr. Windibank. 

596
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,000
It is quite too transparent and 
it was a very bad. 

597
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:33,600
Implement when you said that it 
was impossible for me to solve. 

598
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,699
So simple, a question, that's 
right, sit down and let us talk 

599
00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:40,800
it over. 
Our visitor collapsed into a 

600
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,199
chair with a ghastly face and 
the glitter of moisture on his 

601
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,199
brow. 
It's, it's not actionable. 

602
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:51,600
He stammered. 
I am very much afraid that it is

603
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,600
not. 
But between ourselves windibank,

604
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,800
it was as cruel and selfish and 
heartless, a trick in a petty 

605
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,300
way as ever came before me. 
Now. 

606
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:05,200
Let me just run over the course 
of events and you will 

607
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:09,700
contradict me if I go wrong. 
The man sat huddled up in his 

608
00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:13,100
chair with his head, sunk upon 
his breast like one who is 

609
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:16,600
utterly crushed homes. 
Stuck his feet up on the corner 

610
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,500
of the mantelpiece and leaning 
back with his hands in his 

611
00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:24,400
pockets began talking, rather to
himself as it seemed and to us. 

612
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,200
The man, I married a woman. 
Very much older than himself for

613
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,900
her money said, he and he 
enjoyed the use of the money of 

614
00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:35,100
the daughter. 
As long as she lived with them. 

615
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,200
It was a considerable sum for 
people in their position and the

616
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,400
loss of it would have made a 
serious difference. 

617
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:43,800
It was worth an effort to 
preserve it. 

618
00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:48,000
The daughter was of a good 
amiable disposition, but 

619
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,900
affectionate and warm-hearted in
her ways so that it was evident 

620
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:54,900
that with her Fair personal 
advantages and her little 

621
00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:56,800
income. 
You would not be allowed to 

622
00:35:56,808 --> 00:36:00,300
remain single long. 
Now, her marriage would mean. 

623
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,800
Of course the loss of a hundred 
a year. 

624
00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:06,000
So, what does her stepfather do 
to prevent it? 

625
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:09,900
He takes the obvious course of 
keeping her at home and 

626
00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:12,500
forbidding her to seek the 
company of people of her own 

627
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:15,700
age. 
But soon, he found that they 

628
00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:20,200
would not answer forever. 
She became restive insisted upon

629
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,000
her rights, and finally 
announced her positive intention

630
00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:27,000
of going to a certain ball. 
What does her clever stepfather 

631
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,000
do? 
Then he conceives an idea more 

632
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,700
creditable to his head and his 
heart with the connivance and 

633
00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:38,000
assistance of his wife. 
He disguised himself. 

634
00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:40,600
Covered those Keen eyes with 
tinted glasses. 

635
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,200
Masked the face with a mustache 
and a pair of bushy whiskers 

636
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,700
sunk that clear voice into an 
insinuating whisper and doubly 

637
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,000
secure on account of the girl's 
short sight. 

638
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,800
He appears as mr. 
Hosmer angel. 

639
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,600
Keeps off other lovers by making
love himself. 

640
00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:02,900
It was only a joke at first. 
Grown our visitor. 

641
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,000
We never thought that she would 
have been so carried away very 

642
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,300
likely, not. 
However, that may be the young 

643
00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:15,500
lady was very decidedly carried 
away and having quite made up 

644
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:18,200
her mind that her stepfather was
in France. 

645
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,300
The suspicion of treachery. 
Never for an instant entered. 

646
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:23,900
Her mind. 
She was flattered by the 

647
00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:27,500
gentleman's attentions. 
And the effect was increased by 

648
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:29,700
the loudly expressed admiration 
of her mother. 

649
00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:34,000
Then mr. 
Angel began to call for it was 

650
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,800
obvious that the matter should 
be pushed as far as it would go.

651
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,700
If a real effect were to be 
produced, there were meetings 

652
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:44,100
and an engagement, which would 
finally secure the girl's 

653
00:37:44,100 --> 00:37:48,800
affections from turning towards 
anyone else, but the deception 

654
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,900
could not be kept up forever. 
These pretended Journeys to 

655
00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:57,300
France were rather cumbrous. 
The thing to do was clearly to 

656
00:37:57,300 --> 00:37:59,800
bring the business to an end in 
such a dramatic manner. 

657
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,300
If it would leave a permanent 
impression upon the young lady's

658
00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:07,100
mind and prevent her from 
looking upon any other Suitor, 

659
00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:12,700
for some time to come, hence, 
those vows of fidelity exacted 

660
00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:16,800
upon a testament. 
And hence, also the allusions to

661
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,000
a possibility of something 
happening on the very morning of

662
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,300
the wedding James windibank, 
wished Miss Sutherland, to be so

663
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:29,000
bound to Hosmer Angel and so 
uncertain as to his fate that 

664
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,500
for 10 years to At any rate, she
would not listen to another man.

665
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,100
As far as the church door. 
He brought her and then as he 

666
00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:41,800
could go no farther. 
He conveniently vanished Away by

667
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,400
the old trick of stepping in at 
one door of a four-wheeler and 

668
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,600
out at the other. 
I think that was the chain of 

669
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,000
events. 
Mr. Windibank. 

670
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:54,800
Our visitor had recovered 
something of his Assurance. 

671
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,200
While Holmes had been talking 
and he rose from his chair. 

672
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,000
Now, with a cold sneer upon his 
pale face. 

673
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:08,100
It may be so or it might not mr.
Holmes said he, but if you are 

674
00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:10,900
so very sharp. 
You ought to be sharp enough to 

675
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:14,800
know that it is you who are 
breaking the law now and not me.

676
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,100
I have done nothing actionable 
from First. 

677
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,200
But as long as you keep that 
door locked, you lay yourself 

678
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,300
open to an action for assault 
and illegal. 

679
00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:27,800
Constraint the law cannot as you
say, touch. 

680
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:32,300
You said, Holmes, unlocking and 
throwing open the door yet. 

681
00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:35,200
There never was a man who 
deserved punishment more. 

682
00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:40,500
If the young lady has a brother 
or a friend, he ought to lay a 

683
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:42,700
whip across your shoulders by 
jove. 

684
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,400
He continued flushing up at the 
sight of the bitter sneer upon 

685
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,200
the man's face. 
Face, it is not part of my 

686
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,000
duties to my client, but here's 
a hunting crop handy. 

687
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,100
And I think I shall just treat 
myself to. 

688
00:39:55,900 --> 00:39:57,700
He took two Swift steps to the 
whip. 

689
00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:00,500
But before he could grasp it. 
There was a wild clatter of 

690
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:03,800
steps upon the stairs, the heavy
Hall door banged. 

691
00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:05,900
And from the window, we could 
see mr. 

692
00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:09,100
James windibank running at the 
top of his speed down the road. 

693
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,900
There's a cold-blooded scoundrel
said Holmes laughing as he threw

694
00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:18,100
himself down into his chair. 
Once more that fellow will rise 

695
00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:22,000
from crime to Crime until he 
does something very bad and ends

696
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,500
on a Gallows, the case has in 
some respects been not entirely 

697
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:31,100
devoid of Interest. 
I cannot now entirely see all 

698
00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:33,300
the steps of your reasoning and 
remarked. 

699
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:38,500
Well, of course, it was obvious 
from the first that this mr. 

700
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:42,200
Hosmer, angel must have some 
strong object for his curious 

701
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,500
conduct. 
And it was equally clear that 

702
00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:48,100
the only man who really profited
by the incident as far as we 

703
00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:52,900
could see, was The Stepfather, 
then the fact that the two men 

704
00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:56,700
were never together, but that 
the one always appeared when the

705
00:40:56,700 --> 00:41:00,900
other was away was suggestive. 
So we're the tinted spectacles 

706
00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:05,400
and the Curious voice, which 
both hinted at a disguise as did

707
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,000
the bushy whiskers. 
My suspicions were all confirmed

708
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,000
by his peculiar action in 
typewriting his signature, 

709
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,300
which, of course inferred that 
his handwriting was so familiar 

710
00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:20,100
to her that she would recognise,
even the smallest sample of it. 

711
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:25,000
You see all these isolated facts
together with many minor ones 

712
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,500
all pointed in the same 
direction. 

713
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,000
And how did you verify them 
having once spotted? 

714
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,100
My man? 
It was easy to get 

715
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:37,100
corroboration. 
I knew the firm for which this 

716
00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:40,000
man worked, having taken the 
printed description. 

717
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,400
I eliminated everything from it,
which could be the result of a 

718
00:41:43,408 --> 00:41:46,700
disguise. 
The whiskers, the glasses, the 

719
00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:50,600
voice and I sent it to the firm 
with a request that they would 

720
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,300
inform me. 
Whether it's answered to the 

721
00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:54,200
description of any of their 
Travellers. 

722
00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:58,200
I had already noticed the 
peculiarities of the typewriter.

723
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,300
And I wrote To The Man himself 
at his business address asking 

724
00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:04,700
him. 
If he would come here as I 

725
00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:08,200
expected, his reply was 
typewritten and revealed the 

726
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,200
same trivial, but characteristic
defects. 

727
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:16,400
The same post bought me a letter
from westhouse & marbank of 

728
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,200
fenchurch Street to say that the
description tallied in every 

729
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,900
respect with that of their 
employé James windibank. 

730
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:29,400
And Miss Sutherland. 
If I tell her, she will not 

731
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,300
believe me. 
You may remember the old Persian

732
00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:38,000
saying, there is danger for him,
who taketh, the tiger cub and 

733
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,200
danger. 
Also for whoso snatches, a 

734
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,500
delusion from a woman. 
There is as much sense in Hafiz,

735
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,600
as in Horace, and as much 
knowledge of the world. 

736
00:42:50,500 --> 00:42:52,600
End of a case of identity. 
End of a case of identity.