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Part 2 chapter 7 of a study in 
Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan 

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Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Part two chapter 7, the 

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conclusion. 
We had all been warned to appear

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before the magistrates upon the 
Thursday, but when the Thursday 

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came, there was no occasion for 
our testimony. 

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A higher judge had taken the 
matter in hand and Jefferson. 

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Hope had been summoned before. 
A tribunal where strict Justice 

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would be meted out to him on the
very night after his capture the

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aneurysm burst and he was found 
in the mornings stretched upon 

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the floor of the cell with a 
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though he had been able, His 
dying moments to look back upon 

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a useful life and on work well 
done. 

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Gregson and lestrade will be 
wild about his death, Holmes 

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remarked as we chatted it over 
next evening. 

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Where will their grand 
advertisement be now? 

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I don't see that they had very 
much to do with this capture. 

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I answered what you do in this 
world is a matter of no 

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consequence return. 
My companion bitterly. 

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The question is, what can you 
make people believe that you 

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have done? 
Never mind. 

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He continued more brightly after
a pause. 

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I would not have missed the 
investigation for anything. 

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There has been no better case 
within my recollection. 

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Simple. 
As it was, there were several 

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most Destructive points about it
simple. 

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I ejaculated. 
Well really, it can hardly be 

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described as otherwise said. 
Sherlock Holmes. 

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Smiling at my surprise. 
The proof of its intrinsic 

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Simplicity. 
Is that without any help? 

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Save a few very ordinary 
deductions. 

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I was able to lay my hand upon 
the criminal within three days. 

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That is true said I I have 
already explained to you. 

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That what is out of the common 
is, usually a guide rather than 

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a hindrance in solving. 
A problem of this sort. 

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The grand thing is to be able to
reason backwards that is a very 

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useful accomplishment and a very
easy one, but people do not 

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practice it much in the everyday
Affairs of life. 

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It is more useful to reason for 
words. 

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And so the other comes to be 
neglected, there are 50 who can 

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reason Typically for one new can
reason analytically. 

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I confess said, I, I do not 
quite follow you. 

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I hardly expected that you 
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Let me see if I can make it 
clearer. 

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Most people, if you describe a 
train of events to them will 

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tell you what the result would 
be. 

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They can put those events 
together in their minds and 

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argue from them, that something 
will come to pass. 

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There are few people. 
However, Who if you told them 

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result would be able to evolve 
from their own inner 

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Consciousness, what the steps 
were which led up to that 

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result. 
This power is what I mean when I

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talk of reasoning backwards or 
analytically, I understand said 

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I now this was a case in which 
you were given the result and 

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had to find everything else for 
yourself. 

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Now, let's me Endeavour to show 
you the different steps in my 

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reasoning to begin at the 
beginning. 

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I approached the house as you 
know, on foot and with my mind 

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entirely free from all 
Impressions. 

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I naturally began by examining 
the roadway and there, as I have

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already explained to you. 
I saw clearly the marks of a 

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cab, which I ascertained by 
inquiry must have been there 

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during the night. 
I satisfied myself that it was a

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cab and not a private, Carriage 
by The Narrow Gauge of the 

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wheels. 
The ordinary London Growler is 

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considerably less wide than a 
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This was the first point gained.
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Garden Path, which happened to 
be composed of a clay soil, 

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particularly suitable for taking
Impressions. 

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No doubt it appeared to you to 
be a mere trampled line of 

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slush, but to my train dies, 
every Component surface had a 

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meaning. 
There is no branch of detective 

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science, which is so important 
and so much neglected as the art

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of tracing footsteps, happily. 
I have always laid great stress 

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upon it and match practice has 
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I saw the heavy footmarks of the
constables, but I saw also the 

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track of the two men who had 
first passed through the garden.

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It was easy to tell that they 
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Because in places, there marks 
had been entirely obliterated by

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the others coming upon the top 
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My second link was formed, which
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visitors were two in number one,
remarkable? 

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For his height, as I calculated 
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and the other fashionably 
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and elegant impression left by 
his boots. 

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On entering the house. 
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confirmed my well booted man. 
Lay before me the tall, one then

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had done the murder. 
If murder, there was there was 

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no wound upon the Dead Man's 
person, but the agitated 

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expression upon his face assured
me, that he had foreseen his 

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fate before. 
It came upon him man who died 

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from heart disease or any sudden
natural cause Never by any 

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chance exhibit agitation upon 
their features having sniffed 

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the Dead Man's lips. 
I detected a slightly sour smell

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and I came to the conclusion 
that he had had poison forced 

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upon him. 
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forced upon him from the hatred 
and fear expressed upon his face

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by the method of exclusion. 
I had arrived at this result for

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no other hypothesis would meet 
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It was a very unheard of idea. 
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poison is by no means a new 
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In criminal animals, the cases 
of dulski in Odessa and of let 

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you re a in Montpellier will 
occur once to any toy. 

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Ecologist and now came the great
question as to. 

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The reason why robbery had not 
been the object of the murder 

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for. 
Nothing was taken. 

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Was it politics then? 
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That was the question, which 
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I was inclined from the first, 
to the latter supposition. 

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Political assassins are only too
glad to do their work and to 

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fly. 
This murder had on the contrary 

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been done most deliberately and 
the perpetrator had left his 

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tracks all over the room showing
that he had been there all the 

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time. 
It must be in a private wrong 

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and not a political one, which 
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Revenge. 
When the inscription was 

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discovered upon the wall. 
I was more inclined than ever to

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my opinion. 
The thing was too evidently a 

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blind when the ring was found. 
However, it's settled. 

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The question, clearly. 
The murderer had used it to 

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remind his victim of some dead 
or absent woman. 

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It was at this point that I 
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inquired in his telegram to 
Cleveland as to any particular 

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point in mr. 
Drebber's, former career. 

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He answered you remember in the 
negative. 

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I then proceeded to make a 
careful examination of the room,

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which confirmed me in my opinion
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furnished me with the additional
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Napoli cigar and the length of 
his nails. 

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I had already come to the 
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There were no signs of a 
struggle that the blood, which 

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covered the floor had burst from
the murderers nose in his 

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excitement. 
I could perceive that the track 

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of blood coincided with the 
track of his feet. 

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It is seldom that any man unless
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out in this way through emotion.
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the criminal was probably a 
robust and ruddy-faced man 

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events, proved that I had judged
correctly, having left the 

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house, I proceeded to do. 
What Gregson had neglected. 

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I telegraphed to the head of the
people at Cleveland limiting, my

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enquiry, to this circumstances, 
connected with the marriage of 

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Enoch drebber. 
The answer was conclusive. 

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It told me that drebber had 
already applied for the 

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protection of the law. 
Against an old rival in love 

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named Jefferson hope. 
And that this same Hope was at 

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present in Europe. 
I knew now that I held the clue 

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to the mystery in my hand and 
all that remained was to secure 

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the murderer. 
I'd already determined in my own

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mind, the man who had walked 
into the house with drebber was 

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none. 
Other than the man who had 

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driven the cab the marks in the 
road, show me that the horse had

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wondered on an in a way, which 
had been impossible. 

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Had there been anyone in charge 
of it, where then could the 

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driver be unless he were inside 
the house. 

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Again, it is absurd to have 
suppose that any sane man would 

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carry out a deliberate crime 
under the very eyes as it were 

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of a third person who was sure 
to betray him. 

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Lastly, supposing one man wish 
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What better means? 
Could he adopt than to turn cab 

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driver? 
All these considerations led me 

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to the irresistible conclusion. 
That Jefferson Hope was to be 

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found among the Jarvis of the 
Metropolis. 

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If he had been one, there was no
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ceased to be on the contrary, 
from his point of view. 

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Any Sudden Change would be 
likely to draw attention to 

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himself. 
He would probably for a time at 

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least continue to perform his 
duties. 

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There was no reason to suppose 
that he was going under an 

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assumed name. 
Why should he change his name in

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a country? 
Where no one knew his original 

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one? 
I therefore organize my street, 

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Arab detective, Corps and sent 
them systematically to every cab

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Proprietor in London, until a 
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wanted, how well they succeeded.
And how quickly I took advantage

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of it are still fresh in your 
recollection. 

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The murder of stangerson was an 
incident which was entirely 

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unexpected. 
But which could hardly in any 

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case have been prevented through
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As you know, I came into 
possession of the pills. 

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The Distance of which I'd 
already surmised. 

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You. 
See the whole thing is a chain 

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of logical sequences without a 
break or floor. 

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It is wonderful. 
I cried your merits should be 

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publicly recognized. 
You should publish an account of

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the case. 
If you won't I will for you. 

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You may do what you like doctor.
He answered see here. 

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He continued. 
Handing a paper over to me. 

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Look at this. 
It was the echo for the day and 

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the paragraph to which he 
pointed was devoted to the case 

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in question. 
The public is said have lost a 

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sensational treat through the 
sudden death of the man. 

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Hope who was suspected of the 
murder of mr. 

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Enoch drebber and of mr. 
Joseph stangerson, the details 

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of the case will probably be 
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Now, though. 
We are informed upon good 

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authority. 
That the crime was the result of

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an old standing and romantic 
feud in which love and Mormonism

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bore apart. 
It seems that both the victims 

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belonged in their younger days. 
To the Latter Day Saints. 

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And hope the deceased prisoner 
Hales also from Salt Lake City. 

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If the case had had no other 
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It at least brings out in the 
most striking manner, the 

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efficiency of our detective 
police force, and will serve as 

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a lesson to all foreigners that 
they will do wisely to settle 

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their Foods at home and not to 
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It is an Open Secret that the 
credit of this smart capture 

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belongs entirely to the 
well-known Scotland Yard 

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officials messes lestrade and 
Gregson. 

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Some, the man was apprehended. 
It appears in the rooms of a 

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certain. 
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who has 

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himself as an amateur shown some
talent, in the detective line 

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and who was such instructors, 
May hope in time to attain to 

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some degree of their skill. 
It is expected that a 

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testimonial of some sword will 
be presented to the two offices 

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as a fitting recognition of 
their services. 

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Didn't I tell you? 
So when we started cried 

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Sherlock, Holmes, with a laugh, 
that's the result of all our 

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study in Scarlet to get them, a 
testimonial. 

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Never mind. 
I answered. 

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I have all the facts in my 
journal and the public shall 

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know them. 
In the meantime. 

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You must make yourself contented
by the consciousness of success,

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like the Roman Miser. 
Populous may see the lat. 

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At me, he plowed. 
Oh, it's a do me. 

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Simil act new mosque on, Templar
in ARCA. 

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End of book. 2 chapter 7. 
The end of a study in Scarlet by

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Sir. 
Arthur Conan Doyle read by 

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David. 
Clarke website BG, David dot 

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Thank you for listening.