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Chapter 13 of the Hound of the 
Baskervilles by Sir, Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Chapter XIII fixing the Nets. 

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We're at close grips at last 
said, Holmes as we walked 

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together across the Moor. 
What a nerve. 

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The fellow has how he pulled 
himself together in the face of 

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what must have been a paralyzing
shock when he found that the 

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wrong, man had fallen a victim 
to his plot. 

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I told you in London, Watson. 
And I tell you now again, that 

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we have never had a foam and 
more worthy of our Steel. 

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I'm sorry that he's seen you and
so was I at first, but there was

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no getting out of it. 
What effect do you think it will

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have on his plans now that he 
knows you're here. 

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It may cause him to be more 
cautious or it may drive him to 

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Desperate Measures at once. 
Like most clever criminals, he 

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may be too confident in his own 
cleverness and imagine that he 

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has completely deceived us. 
Why should we not arrest him at 

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once? 
My dear Watson, you were born to

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be a man of action. 
Your instinct is always to do 

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something energetic, but 
supposing for argument's sake 

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that we had him arrested 
tonight. 

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What on Earth? 
The better off. 

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Should we be for that? 
We could prove nothing against 

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him. 
There's the devilish cunning of 

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it. 
If he were acting through a 

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human agent, we could get some 
evidence. 

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But if we were to drag this 
great dog to the light of day, 

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it would not help us in putting 
a rope around the neck of its 

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Master. 
Surely, we have a case, not a 

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shadow of one, only surmise and 
conjecture. 

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We should be laughed out of 
court. 

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If we came with such a story and
such evidence, there is such as 

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death. 
Found dead without a mark upon 

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him. 
You and I know that he died of 

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sheer fright. 
We know also what frightened 

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him, but how we to get 12 
stolid. 

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Jury men to know it. 
What signs are there of a hound?

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Where are the marks of the 
fangs? 

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Of course, we know that a Hound 
does not bite a dead body and 

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that Sir Charles was dead before
ever. 

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The Brute overtook him, but we 
have to prove all this and we 

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are not in a position to do it. 
Well then tonight we are not 

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much better off tonight. 
Again there was no direct 

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connection between the hound and
the man's death. 

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We never saw the Hound. 
We heard it, but we could not 

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prove that it was running upon 
this man's Trail. 

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There is a complete absence of 
motive. 

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No, my dear fellow. 
We must reconcile ourselves to 

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the fact that we have no case at
present and that it is worth our

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while to run any risk in order 
to establish one. 

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And how do you propose to do so?
I have great hopes of what. 

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Mrs. Laura, Lyons may do for us 
when the position of Affairs is 

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made clear to her. 
And I have my own plan as well, 

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sufficient for tomorrow is the 
evil thereof, but I hope before 

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the day is passed to have the 
upper hand at last. 

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I could draw nothing further 
from him and he walked lost in 

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thought as far as the 
Baskerville gates. 

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Are you coming up? 
Yes, I see no reason for further

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concealment, but one last word, 
Watson say nothing of the Hound 

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to Sir. 
Henry, let him think that 

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selden's death was as Stapleton.
Would have us believe. 

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He will have a better nerve for 
the ordeal, which you will have 

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to undergo tomorrow when he is 
engaged. 

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If I remember your reporter 
right to dine with these people.

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And so am I Then you must excuse
yourself and he must go alone 

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that will be easily arranged. 
And now if we are too late for 

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dinner, I think as we are both 
ready for our suppers. 

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So Henry was more pleased and 
surprised to see Sherlock 

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Holmes, for he had for some 
days. 

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Been expecting that recent 
events would bring him down from

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London. 
He did raise his eyebrows. 

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However, when he found that, my 
friend had neither any luggage 

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nor any explanations for its 
absence. 

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Between us. 
We soon, supplied his once, and 

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then over a belated supper, we 
explain to the baronet as much 

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of our experience as it seemed 
desirable that he should know. 

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But first, I had the unpleasant 
duty of breaking the news to 

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Barrymore and his wife to him. 
It may have been an unmitigated 

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relief, but she wept bitterly in
her apron to all the world. 

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He was the man of violence, 
half, animal and half demon. 

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But to her he is always Maned 
the little willful boy of her 

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own girlhood the child who had 
clung to her hand evil, indeed 

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is the man who has not one woman
to mourn him. 

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I've been moping in the house 
all day since Watson went off in

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the morning. 
So the baronet I guess, I should

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have some credit for I have kept
my promise if I hadn't sworn not

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to go about alone, I might have 
had a more lively evening for I 

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had a message from Stapleton 
asking the over there. 

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I have no doubt that you would 
have had a more lively evening 

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said Holmes, dryly by the way I 
don't suppose you appreciate 

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that we have been mourning over 
you as having broken your neck. 

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So Henry opened his eyes. 
How was that? 

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This poor wretch was dressed in 
your clothes. 

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I fear your servant, who gave 
them to him, may get into 

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trouble with the police. 
That is unlikely. 

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There was no mark on any of 
them. 

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As far as I know, that's lucky 
for him. 

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In fact, it's lucky for all of 
you, since you are all on the 

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wrong side of the law in this 
matter, I am not sure. 

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That as a conscientious 
detective, my first duty is not 

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to arrest the whole household. 
Watson's reports are most 

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incriminating documents but how 
about the case asked the 

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baronet, have you made anything 
out of the tangle? 

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I don't know that Watson and I 
are much the wiser since we came

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down. 
I think that I shall be in a 

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position to make the situation 
rather more clear to you before 

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long. 
It has been an exceedingly 

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difficult and most it 
complicated business. 

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There are several points upon 
which we still want light, but 

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it is coming all the same. 
We've had one experience as 

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Watson has no doubt told you we 
heard the Hound on the more so I

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can swear that it is not all 
empties Superstition. 

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I had something to do with dogs 
when I was out west and I know 

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one, when I hear one, if you can
muzzle that one and put him on a

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chain, I'll be ready to swear. 
You are the greatest detective 

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of all time. 
I think I will muzzle him and 

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chained him. 
All right, if you'll give me 

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your help, whatever you tell me 
to do, I will do very good and I

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will ask you also to do it 
blindly, without always asking 

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the reason just as you, like, if
you'll do this, I think the 

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chances are that our little 
problem will soon be solved. 

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I have no doubt. 
He stopped suddenly and stared 

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fixedly up over my head into the
air, the lamp beat upon his 

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face. 
And so intent was it and so 

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still that it might have been 
that of a clear-cut classical 

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statue, a personification of 
alertness and expectation, what 

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is it? 
We both cried. 

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I could see as he looked down 
but he was repressing some 

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internal emotion. 
His features were still composed

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but his eyes Shone with amused 
exultation. 

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Excuse the admiration of a 
connoisseur. 

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Said he as he waved his hand, 
towards the line of portraits 

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which covered the opposite wall.
Watson won't allow that. 

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I know anything of art, but that
is mere jealousy. 

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Because our views upon the 
subject differ. 

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Now, these are a really, very 
fine, series of portraits. 

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Well, I'm glad to hear you say 
so. 

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Said, Sir, Henry glancing with 
some surprise. 

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At my friend, I don't pretend to
know much about these things and

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I'd be a better judge of a horse
or a steer than of a picture. 

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I didn't know that you found 
time for such things. 

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I know what is good when I see. 
See it, and I see it now, that's

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a Nella. 
I'll swear that lady in the blue

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silk Over Yonder and the Stout 
gentleman with the wig ought to 

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be a Reynolds. 
They're all family portraits, I 

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presume everyone. 
Do you know the names Barrymore 

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has been coaching me in them? 
And I think I can say my lessons

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fairly well. 
Who is the gentleman with the 

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telescope that is rear Admiral 
Baskerville who served under 

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Rodney in the West Indies. 
The man with the blue coat and 

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the roll of paper is so William 
Baskerville, who is the chairman

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of Committees of the House of 
Commons under pit. 

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And this Cavalier opposite to me
the one with the black velvet 

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and the lace. 
Ah, you have a right to know 

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about him, that is the cause of 
all the Mischief. 

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The wicked Hugo who started the 
And of the Baskervilles. 

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We're not likely to forget him, 
I gazed with interest and some 

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surprised upon the portrait. 
Dear me said, Holmes. 

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He seems a quiet Meek mannered, 
man, enough. 

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But I dare say that there was a 
lurking devil in his eyes. 

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I had pictured him as more 
robust and ruffianly person. 

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There's no doubt about the 
authenticity, for the name and 

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the date 1647 are on the back of
the canvas. 

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Holmes said, little more, but 
the picture of the Old Roy 

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stirrer seem to have a 
Fascination for him and his eyes

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were continually fixed upon it 
during supper. 

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It was not until later when Sir 
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But I was able to follow the 
trend of his thoughts. 

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He led me back into the 
banqueting-hall, his bedroom 

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candle in his hand and he held 
it up against the time stained 

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portrait on the wall. 
Do you see anything there? 

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I looked at the broad plumed 
hat. 

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The curling lovelock's, the 
white lace collar, and the 

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straight severe face, which was 
framed between them. 

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It was not a brutal countenance,
but it was Prim hard and Stern 

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with a firm set. 
Thin-lipped, mouth and a coldly 

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intolerant. 
I Is it like anyone? 

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You know there is something of 
Sir. 

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Henry about the jaw, just a 
suggestion perhaps, but wait, an

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instant, he stood upon a chair 
and holding up the light. 

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In his left hand, he curved his 
right arm over the broad hat and

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round the long ringlets. 
Good Heavens. 

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I cried in amazement, the face 
of Stapleton, had sprung out of 

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the canvas, ha you see it? 
Now my eyes have been trained to

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examine faces and not their 
trimmings. 

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It is the first quality of a 
criminal investigator that he 

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should see through a disguise, 
but this is a marvelous, it 

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might be his portrait. 
Yes, it is an interesting 

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instance of a throwback, which 
appears to be both physical. 

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And spiritual study of family. 
Portraits is enough to convert a

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man to the doctrine of 
reincarnation. 

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The fellow is a Baskerville that
is evident with designs upon the

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succession. 
Exactly. 

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This chance of the picture has 
supplied us with one of our most

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obvious missing links, we have 
him Watson, we have him and I 

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dare swear that before tomorrow 
night. 

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He will be fluttering in our net
as helpless as one of his own 

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butterflies. 
Up in a cork and a card. 

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And we add him to the Baker 
Street collection. 

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He burst into one of his rare 
fits of laughter. 

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As he turned away from the 
picture. 

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I've not heard him laugh often, 
and it is always boded ill to 

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somebody. 
I was up betimes in the morning 

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but Holmes was a foot earlier 
still for I saw him as I dressed

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coming up the drive. 
Yes, we should have a full day 

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today, he remarked, and he 
rubbed his hands with the joy of

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action. 
The Nets are all in place and 

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the drag is about to begin, 
we'll know before the day is out

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whether we have caught our Big 
Lean, George Pike or whether he 

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has got through the meshes have 
you been on the more already? 

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I have sent a report from 
grimpen to Princetown as to the 

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death of Selden. 
I think I can promise that none 

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of you will be trouble in the 
matter. 

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And I have also communicated It 
with my faithful Cartwright, who

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would certainly have pined away 
at the door of my Hut as a dog 

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does at his master's grave. 
If I had not set his mind at 

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rest about my safety. 
What is the next move to see Sir

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Henry ah here he is. 
Good morning Holmes said the 

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baronet. 
You look like a general who's 

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planning a battle with his chief
of the staff. 

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That is the exact situation. 
Watson was asking for orders. 

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And so do I very good you are 
engaged as I understand to dine 

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with our friends the stapleton's
tonight. 

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I hope that you'll come also. 
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but I'm sure that they would be 
very glad to see you. 

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I fear that Watson and I must go
to London to London. 

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Yes I think that we should be 
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juncture the baronet's face 
perceptibly lengthened. 

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I hope that you are going to see
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whole in the more and not very 
pleasant places. 

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When one is alone, my dear 
fellow you must trust me 

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implicitly and do exactly what I
tell you. 

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You can tell your friends that 
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come with you but that urgent 
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town. 
We hope very soon to return to 

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Devonshire, will you remember to
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If you insist upon it? 
There is no alternative I assure

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you. 
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brow that he was deeply hurt by 
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desertion. 
When do you desire to go? 

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He asked coldly immediately 
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into coombe Tracey but Watson 
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pledge that he will come back to
you Watson. 

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You will send a note to 
Stapleton to tell him that you 

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regret that you cannot come. 
I have a good mind to go to 

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London with, you said, the 
baronet, why should I stay here 

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alone? 
Because it is your post of Duty.

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Because you gave me your word 
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told. 
And I tell you to stay, all 

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right, then I'll stay one more 
Direction. 

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I Wish you to drive to marry pit
house, send back your trap 

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however and let them know that 
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across the Moor. 
Yes but that is the very thing 

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which you have so often 
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time, you may do it with safety.
If I had not every confidence in

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your nerve and courage, I would 
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essential that you should do it.
Then I will do it. 

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And as you value your life, do 
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direction, save along the 
straight path, which leads from 

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Mary pit house to the grimpen 
road and is your natural way 

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home. 
I will do just what you say. 

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Very good. 
I should be glad to get away as 

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soon after breakfast as 
possible. 

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So as to reach London, in the 
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by this program. 
Do I remembered that Holmes had 

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said to Stapleton on the night 
before that his visit would 

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terminate next day. 
It had not crossed my mind, 

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however, that he would wish me 
to go with him nor could I 

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understand how he could both be 
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himself declared to be critical.
It was nothing for it, however, 

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but implicit obedience, so we 
bade goodbye to our rueful 

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friend and a couple of hours 
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station of coombe Tracey and had
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return Journey. 
A small boy was waiting upon the

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platform. 
And he orders sir, you will take

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this train to town Cartwright. 
The moment you arrive, you'll 

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send a wire to Sir, Henry 
Baskerville. 

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In my name to say that if he 
finds the pocketbook which I 

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have dropped, he is to send it 
by registered post to Baker 

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Street. 
Yes, sir and ask at the station 

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office if there is a message for
me. 

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The boy returned with a 
telegram, which Holmes handed to

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me. 
It's ran why I received coming 

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down with unsigned. 
Warrant arrived, 540 lestrade, 

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That is an answer to mine of 
this morning. 

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He is the best of the 
professionals I think and we may

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need his assistance now Watson. 
I think that we can't employ our

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time better than by calling upon
your acquaintance. 

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Mrs. Laura Lyons. 
His plan of campaign was 

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beginning to be evident. 
He would use the baronet in 

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order to convince the 
stapleton's that we were really 

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gone. 
While we should actually return 

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at the instant when we were 
likely to be needed that 

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telegram from London. 
If mentioned by Sir Henry to the

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stapleton's, must remove the 
last suspicions from their minds

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already. 
I seemed to see our Nets drawing

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closer around that lien, George 
Pike, mrs. 

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Laura Lyons was in her office. 
Isis and Sherlock Holmes opened 

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his interview with a frankness 
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considerably amazed her. 
I am investigating the 

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circumstances which attended the
death of the late Sir Charles 

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Baskerville said he my friend 
here dr. 

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Watson has informed me of what 
you've communicated and also of 

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what you have withheld in 
connection with that matter. 

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What have I withheld? 
She asked if I don't lie. 

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You have confessed that you 
asked Sir, Charles to be at the 

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gate at 10:00. 
We know that that was the place 

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and hour of his death, you have 
withheld, what the connection is

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between these events. 
There is no connection in that 

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case. 
The Coincidence must indeed be 

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an extraordinary one, but I 
think that we shall succeed in 

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establishing a connection. 
After all, I wish to be 

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perfectly Frank with you mrs. 
Lyons we regard this case as one

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of murder and the evidence May 
implicate not only your friend, 

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mr. 
Stapleton but his wife as well. 

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The lady sprang from her chair, 
his wife, she cried. 

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The fact is no longer a secret. 
The person who has passed for 

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his sister is really his wife, 
mrs. 

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Lyons had resumed her seat, her 
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her chair, and I saw that the 
pink nails had turned white with

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the pressure of her grip, his 
wife. 

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She said again, his wife, he is 
not a married man, Sherlock. 

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Shrugged his shoulders. 
Prove it to me, prove it to me 

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and if you can do. 
So the fierce flash of her eyes 

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said, more than any words I have
come prepared to do so said 

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Holmes drawing several papers 
from his pocket, here is a 

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photograph of the couple taken 
in York for years ago. 

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It is endorsed mr. 
And mrs. 

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Vandeleur. 
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in recognizing him and her also,
if you know her by sight, here 

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are three And descriptions by 
trustworthy Witnesses of mr. 

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And mrs. 
Vandeleur who at that time, kept

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since Oliver's private school, 
read them and see if you can 

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doubt the identity of these 
people. 

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She glanced at them and then 
looked up at us with the set 

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rigid face of a desperate woman.
Mr. Holmes. 

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She said this man had offered me
marriage on condition that I 

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could get a divorce from my 
husband. 

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He has lied to me, the villain 
in every conceivable way, not 

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one word of Truth. 
Has he ever told me? 

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And why, why? 
I imagine that all was for my 

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own sake. 
But now I see that I was never 

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anything but a tool in his 
hands. 

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Why should I preserve face with 
him? 

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Who never kept any with me? 
Why should I try to Shield him 

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from the consequences of his own
Wicked acts asked me what you 

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like and there is nothing which 
I shall hold back. 

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One thing I swear to you and 
that is that when I wrote the 

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letter I never dreamed of any 
harm to the Old Gentleman who 

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had been my kindest friend. 
I entirely believe you madam 

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said, Sherlock Holmes. 
The recital of these events must

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be very painful to you and 
perhaps it will make it easier. 

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If I tell you what occurred, and
you can check me if I make any 

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material mistake. 
The sending of this letter was 

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suggested to you by Stapleton, 
he dictated it, I presume that. 

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The reason he gave was that you 
would receive help from Sir, 

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Charles for the legal expenses 
connected with your divorce, 

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exactly. 
And then after you had sent the 

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letter, he dissuaded you from 
keeping the appointment. 

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He told me that it would hurt 
his self-respect that any other 

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man should find the money for 
such an object. 

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And that though he was a poor 
man himself, he would devote his

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last penny to removing the 
obstacles which divided us He 

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appears to be a very consistent 
character and then you heard 

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nothing until you read the 
reports of the death in the 

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paper. 
No. 

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And he made you swear to say 
nothing about your appointment 

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with Sir Charles he did. 
He said that the death was a 

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very mysterious one and that I 
should certainly be suspected. 

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If the facts came out, he 
frightened me into remaining 

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silent. 
Quite so but you had your 

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suspicions. 
She hesitated and looked down. 

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I knew him. 
She said, but if he had kept 

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Faith with me, I should always 
have done. 

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So with him. 
I think that on the whole you 

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have had a fortunate Escape 
said, Sherlock Holmes, You have 

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had him in your power and he 
knew it and yet you are alive. 

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You have been walking for some 
months very near to the edge of 

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a precipice. 
We must wish you good morning 

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now mrs. 
Lyons and it is probable that 

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you will very shortly hear from 
us again. 

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I'll case becomes rounded off 
and difficulty after difficulty,

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sins away in front of us, said 
Holmes, as we stood waiting for 

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the arrival of the express from 
town, I shall soon be in the 

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position of being able to put 
into a single connected 

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narrative, one of the most 
singular and Sensational crimes 

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of modern times students of 
criminology will remember the 

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analogous incidents in God. 
No, in little Russia in the year

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66 and of course there are The 
Anderson murders in North 

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Carolina but this case possesses
some features, which are 

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entirely its own. 
Even now we have no clear case 

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against this very Wily man, but 
I shall be very much surprised. 

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If it is not clear enough before
we go to bed this night, The 

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London Express came roaring to 
the station and a small wiry 

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Bulldog of a man had sprung from
a first-class Carriage. 

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We all three shook hands. 
And I saw at once from the 

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reverential way, in which 
lestrade gazed at my companion, 

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that he had learned a good deal.
Since the days when they had 

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first worked together, I could. 
Well remember the scorned which 

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the theories of the reason I 
used then to excite in the 

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Practical man. 
Anything good. 

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He asked the biggest thing for 
years. 

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Said Holmes, we have two hours 
before we need, think of 

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starting. 
I think we might employ it in 

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getting some dinner. 
And then lestrade, we will take 

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the London, Fog out of your 
throat. 

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My giving you a breath of the 
pure night are of Dartmoor, 

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never been there. 
Oh well, I don't suppose you 

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will forget your first visit End
of chapter 13. 

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End of chapter 13.