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Chapter 7 of a study in Scarlet 
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

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This LibriVox recording is in 
the public domain. 

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Chapter 7 light in the darkness,
the intelligence with which 

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lestrade greeted us with Soma 
mentis. 

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And so unexpected, that we were 
all three fairly dumbfounded 

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Gregson. 
Sprang out of his chair and 

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upset. 
The remainder is whiskey in 

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water. 
I stared in silence at Sherlock 

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Holmes, whose lips were 
compressed and his brows drawn 

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down over his eyes. 
Stangerson to he muttered. 

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The plot thickens. 
He was quite thick enough before

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grumbles estrade taking a chair,
are seem to have dropped into a 

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sort of Council of War. 
Are you, are you sure of this 

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piece of intelligence stammered 
Gregson? 

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I've just come from his room 
said lestrade. 

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I was the first to discover what
had occurred. 

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We have been hearing gregson's 
view of the matter homes. 

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Observed. 
Would you mind letting us know 

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what you have seen and done? 
I have no objection lestrade 

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answered, seating himself are 
freely confess that I was of the

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opinion that stangerson was 
concerned in the death of 

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drebber. 
This fresh development has shown

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me that I was completely 
mistaken. 

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Full of the one idea. 
I set myself to find out what 

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had become of the secretary. 
They have been seen together at 

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Euston Station about 8:30 on the
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At 2:00 in the morning, drebber 
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Road. 
The question, which confronted 

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me was to find out how 
stangerson have been employed 

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between 8:30 and the time of the
crime and what had become of him

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afterwards. 
I telegraphed to Liverpool, 

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given a description of the man 
and warning them to keep a watch

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upon the American boats. 
I then set to work calling upon 

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all the hotels and lodging 
houses in the vicinity of 

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Houston. 
You see I argued if Trevor and 

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His companion to become 
separated the natural course for

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the latter would be to put up 
somewhere in the vicinity for 

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the night and then to anger 
about the station again next 

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morning. 
They would be likely to agree on

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some meeting place beforehand. 
Remarked Holmes. 

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As so it proved. 
I spent the whole of yesterday 

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evening in making inquiries 
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This morning. 
I began very early and at 8:00. 

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I reached halliday's private 
Hotel in Little George Street on

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my inquiry as to whether I mr. 
Stangerson was living there. 

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They are. 
Once answered me in the 

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affirmative. 
No doubt, you are the gentleman 

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whom he was expecting. 
They said he's been waiting for 

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a gentleman for two days. 
Where is he now? 

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I asked he's upstairs in bed. 
He wishes to be called at 9:00. 

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I will go out and see him at 
once. 

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I said it seemed to me that my 
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his nerves and lead him to say 
something unguarded, the boots 

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volunteered to show me the room.
It was on the second floor. 

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And there was a small Corridor 
leading up to it, the boots 

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pointed out the door to me and 
was about to go downstairs 

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again. 
When I saw something that made 

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me feel sick eesh in spite of my
20 years experience from under 

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the door. 
They're curled a little red 

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ribbon of blood which had 
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formed a little pool along the 
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In at the other side. 
I gave a cry which brought the 

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boots back. 
He nearly fainted when he saw 

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it, the door was locked on the 
inside, but we put our shoulders

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to it and knocked it in the 
window of the room was open and 

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beside the window. 
All that lay in the body of a 

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man in his nightdress. 
He was quite dead and had been 

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for some time for his limbs were
rigid and cold when we turned 

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him over the boots, recognized 
him at once. 

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As being the same gentleman who 
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name of Joseph stangerson. 
The cause of death was a deep 

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stab in the left side, which 
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now comes the strangest. 
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What do you suppose is above the
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Man. 
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and a presentiment of coming 
horror even before Sherlock 

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Holmes answered. 
The word Rocca written in 

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letters of blood. 
He said that, was it said, 

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lestrade in an awestruck voice 
and we were all silent for a 

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while. 
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methodical and so 
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of this unknown assassin, that 
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to his crimes. 
My nerves, which were steady 

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enough on the field of battle 
tingled as I thought of it. 

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The man was seen said lestrade a
milk boy passing on his way to 

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the dairy at them, to walk down 
the line, which leads from The 

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Muse at the back of the hotel. 
He noticed that a ladder which 

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usually lay there was raised 
against one of the windows of 

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the second floor, which was wide
open after passing. 

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He looked back and saw a man, 
descend the ladder. 

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He came down so quietly and 
openly that the boy imagined him

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to be some Carpenter or join her
at Look in the hotel. 

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We took no particular notice of 
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mind that it was early for him 
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He has an impression. 
The man was tall at a reddish 

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face and was dressed in a long 
brownish coat. 

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He must have stayed in the room 
some little time. 

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After the murder for we found 
blood-stained water in the Basin

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where he'd washed his hands and 
marks on the sheets, where he 

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deliberately wiped his knife. 
I glanced at homes on hearing 

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the description of the murderer,
which tallied, so exactly with 

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his own there was, however, no 
trace of exultation or 

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satisfaction upon his face. 
Did you find nothing in the 

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room, which could furnish a clue
to the murderer? 

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He asked, nothing stangerson, 
add drebber's person. 

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He's pocket by seems at. 
This was usual. 

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As he did, all the paying there 
was eight yard pounds in it, but

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nothing had been taken, 
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Maltese of these extraordinary 
crimes robberies certainly not 

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one of them. 
There are no papers or memoranda

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in the murdered Man's Pocket 
except a single telegram dated 

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from Cleveland about a month ago
and containing the words. 

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JH is in Europe. 
There was no name appended to 

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the message and there was 
nothing else. 

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Holmes asked nothing of 
importance. 

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The man's novel with which he 
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lying upon. 
On the bed. 

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And his pipe was on a chair 
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It was a glass of water on the 
table and on the windowsill a 

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small chip ointment box. 
Containing a couple of pills. 

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Sherlock Holmes, sprang from his
chair with an exclamation of 

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delight. 
The last link, he cried 

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exultantly my case is complete. 
The two detectives stared at him

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in amazement. 
I have now in my hands. 

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My companion said confidently 
all the threads which are formed

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such a tangle. 
There are of course details to 

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be filled in but I'm a certain 
of all the main facts from the 

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time that drive has parted from 
stangerson at the station. 

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Up to the discovery of the body 
of the latter. 

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As if I'd seen them with my own 
eyes. 

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I will give you a proof of my 
knowledge. 

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Could you lay your hand upon 
those pills? 

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I have them said lestrade 
producing a small white box. 

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I took him and the purse and the
telegram intending to have them 

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put in a place of safety at the 
police station. 

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It was a merest chance, my 
taking those pills for I'm bound

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to say that I did not attach any
importance to them. 

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It gives them here said Holmes 
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those ordinary pills? 
They certainly were not, they 

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were of a pearly gray color 
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transparent against the light. 
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transparency. 
I should imagine that there are 

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soluble in water. 
I remarked precisely so answered

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Holmes. 
Now. 

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Would you mind going down and 
fetching that poor little devil 

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of a terrier which has been bad 
so long and which the landlady 

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wanted you to put out of its 
pain yesterday. 

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I went downstairs and carried 
the dog upstairs in my arms. 

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It's labored breathing and 
glazing. 

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I showed that it was not far 
from its end indeed. 

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It's snow white muzzle 
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That is it already exceeded. 
The usual term of canine 

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existence. 
I placed it upon a cushion on 

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the rug. 
I will now cut one of these 

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pills into said, Holmes and 
drawing his penknife. 

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He suited the action to the word
1/2. 

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We return into the box for 
future purposes. 

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The other half. 
I will place in this wine glass 

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in which is a teaspoonful of 
water. 

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You perceive that our friend the
doctor is right and that it 

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readily dissolves. 
This might be very interesting, 

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said lestrade in the injured 
tone of one who suspects that he

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is being laughed at. 
I cannot see. 

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However, what it has to do with 
the death of mr. 

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Joseph stangerson, patience. 
My friend, patience, you will 

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find in time that it has 
everything to do with it. 

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I shall now add a little milk to
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on presenting it to the dog. 
We find that he laps it up. 

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Readily enough. 
As he spoke, he turned the 

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contents of the wine glass into 
a sorcerer and placed it in 

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front of the terrier who 
speedily licked it, dry Sherlock

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Holmes. 
Ernest demeanor had so far 

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convinced us that we all sat in 
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intently and expecting some 
startling effect. 

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Nonsuch appeared. 
However, the dog continue to lie

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stretched upon the cushion 
breathing in a labored way, but 

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apparently neither the better 
nor the worst. 

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Stuffed homes are taking out his
watch and as minute, followed 

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minute, without result, an 
expression of the utmost Chagrin

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and disappointment appeared upon
his features. 

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He nor his lip drummed, his 
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showed every other symptom of 
acute impatience. 

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So great was his emotion that I 
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Sorry for him. 
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derisively by no means 
displeased at this check, which 

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he had met. 
It it can't be a coincidence. 

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He cried at last springing from 
his chair and pacing wildly up 

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and down the room. 
It is impossible that it should 

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be a mere coincidence. 
The very pills which I suspected

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in the case of drebber are 
actually found after the death 

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of stangerson. 
And yet they are inert. 

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What can it mean? 
Surely my whole chain of 

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reasoning. 
Can't have been false. 

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It is impossible and yet this 
wretched dog is none the worse. 

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Ah, I have it. 
I have it with a perfect shriek 

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of delight. 
He rushed to the Box, cut the 

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other pill into dissolved, it 
added milk and presented it to 

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the terrier. 
The unfortunate creatures, 

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tongue seemed hardly to have 
been moistened. 

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It before, it gave a convulsive 
shiver in every limb and layers,

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rigid, and lifeless. 
As if it had been struck by 

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lightning. 
Sherlock, Holmes drew a long 

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breath and wiped the 
perspiration from his forehead. 

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I should have more faith. 
He said, I ought to know by this

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time that when a fact appears to
be opposed to a long train of 

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deductions, it invariably proves
to be capable of bearing some 

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other interpretation of the two 
pills in that box. 

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One was of the most deadly 
poison and the other was 

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entirely harmless. 
I ought to have known that 

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before I ever saw the box at 
all. 

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This last statement appeared to 
me to be so startling that I 

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could hardly believe that he was
in his sober senses. 

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There was the dead dog. 
However, to prove that his 

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conjectures had been correct. 
It seemed to me that the Mists 

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in my own mind, were gradually 
clearing away, and I began to 

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have a dim vague perception of 
the truth. 

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All this seems strange to you 
continued Holmes. 

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Because you failed at the 
beginning of the inquiry, to 

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grasp the importance of the 
single real clue, which was 

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presented to you. 
I had the Good Fortune to seize 

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upon that and everything which 
has occurred. 

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Since then, has served to 
confirm my original supposition 

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and indeed was the logical 
sequence of it. 

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Hence things which have 
perplexed you and made the case 

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more obscure have served to 
enlighten me. 

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And to strengthen my 
conclusions. 

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It is a mistake to confound 
strangeness with mystery. 

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The most commonplace crime is 
often the most mysterious 

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because it presents no new or 
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deductions may be drawn. 
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infinitely. 
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Had the body of the victim been 
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roadway without any of these 
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accompaniments, which have 
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It remarkable. 
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making the case more difficult 
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making it less. 
So, Mr. Gregson heard listen to 

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this address with considerable 
impatience could contain himself

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no longer. 
Look here. 

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 
He said we're all ready to 

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acknowledge that. 
You are smart, man. 

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And you have your own methods 
are working. 

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We want something more, more 
than Theory, and preaching. 

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Now though. 
It's okay. 

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So taking the man. 
I've made my case out and it 

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seems I was wrong young sharp. 
Any a could not have been 

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engaged in this second Affair 
lestrade went after his man 

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stangerson and appears, it was 
wrong to you've thrown out in 

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Syria and into their and seem to
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But the time has come when we 
feel that we have a right to ask

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you straight out how much you do
know the business. 

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Can you name the man? 
Who did it? 

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All kind of help feeling that 
Gregson is right, sir. 

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Remark to lestrade we've both 
tried. 

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We both failed. 
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since I've been in the room that
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you require surely. 
You're not up with old it, any 

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longer. 
Any delay in arresting the 

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Assassin? 
I observed might give him time 

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to perpetrate some fresh 
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Thus pressed by us. 
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irresolution. 
He continued to walk up and down

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the room with his head. 
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drawn down as was his habit. 
When lost in thought, there will

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be no more murders. 
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abruptly and facing us. 
You can put that consideration 

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out of the question. 
You've asked me if I know the 

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name of the Assassin. 
I do the mere knowing of his 

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name is a small thing. 
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of laying our hands upon him, 
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do. 
I have good hopes of managing it

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through my own Arrangements, but
it is a thing which needs 

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delicate handling before we have
a shrewd and desperate, man, to 

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deal with who is supported. 
As I have had occasion to prove 

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by another, who is as clever as 
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As long as this man has no idea 
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There is some chance of securing
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But if he had the slightest 
suspicion, he would change his 

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name and vanish in an instant 
among the four million, 

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inhabitants of this great City 
without meaning to hurt either 

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of your feelings. 
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consider these men to be more 
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force. 
And that is why I have not asked

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your assistance. 
If I fail, I shall, of course, 

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incur all the blame due to this 
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prepared. 
And for, at present, I'm ready 

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to promise that the instant that
I can communicate with you 

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without endangering my own 
combinations. 

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I shall do so. 
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far from Satisfied by this 
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Or by the depreciating allusion 
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The former had flushed up to the
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the others beady eyes glistened 
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Neither of them had time to 
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However, before there was a tap 
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the street Arabs, young Wiggins 
introduced his insignificant and

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unsavory person. 
Placer. 

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He said, touching his forelock. 
I have the cab downstairs. 

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Good boy, said Holmes blandly. 
Why don't you introduce this 

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pattern at Scotland? 
Yard be continued, taking a pair

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of Steel handcuffs from a draw, 
see how beautifully the spring 

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works. 
They fastened in an instant. 

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The owl pattern is good enough, 
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find the man to put them on, 
very good. 

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Very good said, Holmes. 
Smiling. 

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The cabman may as well help me 
with my boxes. 

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Just ask him to step up Wiggins.
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companion speaking as though he 
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journey since he had not said 
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There was a small portmanteau in
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and began to strap. 
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When the cabman entered the 
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Just give me a help with his 
Buckle. 

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Cabman. 
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and never turning his head. 
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somewhat Sullen, defiant are and
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that. 
Instant. 

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There was a sharp, click, the 
jangling of metal and Sherlock 

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Holmes. 
Sprang To His Feet. 

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Again gentleman. 
He cried with flashing eyes. 

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Let me introduce you to mr. 
Jefferson. 

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Hope the murderer of Enoch 
drebber and of Joseph 

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stangerson. 
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moment so quickly that I had no 
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I have a vivid recollection of 
that instant of Holmes's 

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triumphant expression and the 
Ring of his voice of the 

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cabman's dazed Savage face. 
As he glared at the glittering 

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handcuffs, which had appeared as
if by Magic upon his wrists, for

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a second or two. 
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statues, then with an 
inarticulate Roar of Fury. 

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The prisoner wrenched himself, 
free from homes is grasp and 

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Held himself through the window 
would work and glass gave way 

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before him. 
But before he got quite through 

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Gregson lestrade and Holmes 
sprang upon him, like so many 

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stag hounds, he was dragged back
into the room and then commenced

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a terrific conflict, so 
powerful. 

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And so Fierce, was he that the 
four of us were shaken off 

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again. 
And again, he appeared to have 

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the convulsive strength of a man
in an epileptic fit, his face 

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and hands with terribly. 
A mangled by his passes through 

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the glass. 
But loss of blood had no effect 

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in diminishing. 
His resistance was not until 

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lestrade. 
Succeeded in getting his hand, 

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inside his neckcloth and half 
strangling him that we made him 

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realize that his struggles were 
of no avail. 

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And even then we felt no 
security until we had pinioned 

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his feet as well as his hands 
that done. 

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We Rose to our feet breathless 
and panting. 

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We have his cab said, Sherlock 
Holmes. 

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It will serve to take him to 
Scotland Yard. 

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And now gentlemen, he continued 
with a pleasant smile. 

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We have reached the end of our 
little mystery. 

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You are very welcome to put any 
questions that you like to me 

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now. 
And there is no danger that I 

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will refuse to answer them. 
End of chapter 7 and part 1.