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Section 8 of the casebook of 
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This leg arm has recording may 

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be distributed and adapted 
freely for any purpose, read by 

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Ruth Golding. 
The problem of Thor Bridge. 

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Somewhere in the vaults of the 
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Charing Cross, there is a 
travel-worn and battered tin 

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dispatch box with my name, John 
H Watson, MD late, Indian army 

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painted upon the lid. 
It is crammed with papers nearly

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all of, which are records of 
cases to illustrate the Curious 

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problems. 
Which mr. 

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Sherlock Holmes had at various 
times to examine Some and not 

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the least interesting were 
complete failures and as such 

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will hardly bear narrating since
no, final explanation is 

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forthcoming a problem without a 
solution may interest the 

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student, but can hardly fail to 
annoy the Casual reader among 

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these unfinished. 
Tales, is that of mr. 

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James phillimore who have 
stepping back into his own 

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house, to get his umbrella was 
never more seen in this world. 

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No less remarkable. 
Is that of the cutter Alicia? 

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Which sailed one spring morning 
into a small patch of mist from 

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where she never again, emerged 
nor was anything further ever 

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heard of herself and her crew. 
A third case, worthy of note is 

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that of Isadora Persona. 
The well-known journalist and 

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duelist who was found Stark 
staring mad with a matchbox in 

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front of him, which contained a 
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Said to be unknown to science. 
Apart from these unfathomed 

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cases. 
There are some which involved 

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the secrets of private families 
to an extent to which would mean

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consternation in many exalted 
quarters if it were thought 

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possible that they might find 
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I need not say that such a 
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Unthinkable and that these 
records will be separated and 

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destroyed. 
Now that my friend has time to 

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turn his energies to the matter.
There remain a considerable 

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residue of cases of greater or 
less interest, which I might 

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have edited before. 
Had I not feared to give the 

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public a surfeit which might 
react upon the reputation of the

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man whom above all others. 
I Revere in some, I Was Myself 

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concerned and can speak as an 
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I was, either not present or 
played so smaller part that they

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could only be told as by a third
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The following narrative is drawn
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It was a wild morning in October
and I observed as I was dressing

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how the last remaining leaves 
are being World from the 

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solitary Plane Tree, which 
Graces the yard behind our 

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house. 
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prepared to find my companion in
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great artists, he was easily 
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On the contrary, I found that he
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that his mood was particularly 
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somewhat Sinister cheerfulness, 
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lighter moments. 
You have a case Holmes. 

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I remarked The Faculty of 
deduction is certainly 

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contagious Watson. 
He answered it has enabled you 

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to probe my secret. 
Yes, I have a case. 

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After a month of triviality is 
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Once more Might I share it there
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discuss it when you have 
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The two hard-boiled eggs with 
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us. 
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unconnected with the copy of the
family Herald, which I observed 

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yesterday upon the hall table, 
even so trivial a matter is 

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cooking an egg demands an 
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the Search of time and 
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romance in that. 
Excellent periodical. 

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A quarter of an hour later. 
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we were face-to-face. 
He had drawn a letter from his 

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pocket. 
You'll have heard of Neil Gibson

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the gold King he said he'll mean
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Well he was one senator for some
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known as the greatest gold 
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Yes I know of him. 
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for some time. 
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he bought a considerable estate 
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ago. 
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of the tragic end of his wife. 
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that is why the name is familiar
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details homes. 
Waved his hand towards some 

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papers on a chair. 
I had no idea that the case was 

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coming my way. 
Way or I should have had my 

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extracts ready said, he, the 
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exceedingly Sensational appeared
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No difficulty. 
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the accused does not obscure the
clearness of the evidence, that 

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was the view taken by the 
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And also in the police-court 
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to the assizes A Sister. 
I fear. 

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It is a thankless business. 
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I cannot change them unless some
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ones. 
Come to light, I do not see what

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my client can hope for. 
Your client. 

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Ah I forgot I had not told you I
am getting into your involved 

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habit Watson of telling a story 
backward. 

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You had best read this first. 
The letter which he handed to me

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written in a bold. 
Masterful hand ran as follows 

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claridge's Hotel. 
October the third, dear mr. 

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Sherlock Holmes, I can't see the
best woman God ever made. 

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Go to her death without doing 
all that is possible to save 

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her. 
I can't explain things. 

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I can't even try to explain 
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doubt that Miss Dunbar is 
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You know, the facts who doesn't,
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country and never a voice raised
for her. 

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It's the Damned Injustice of it 
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That makes me crazy. 
That woman has a heart that 

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wouldn't let her kill a fly. 
Well, I'll come at 11 tomorrow 

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and see if you can get some ray 
of light in the dark. 

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Maybe I have a clue and don't 
know it. 

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Anyhow, all I know, and all I 
have and all I am are for your 

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use. 
Only you can save her. 

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If ever in your life, you showed
your powers. 

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Put them now into this case. 
Yours Faithfully J. 

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Neil Gibson. 
There you have it said, Sherlock

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Holmes, knocking out the ashes 
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slowly refilling it. 
That is the gentleman I await as

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to the story, you have hardly 
time to master all these papers.

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So I must give it to you in a 
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If you are to take an 
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proceedings, This man is the 
greatest Financial power in the 

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world and a man, as I understand
of most violent and formidable 

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character. 
He married a wife, the victim of

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this tragedy of whom I know, 
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her prime, which was the more 
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attractive. 
Governess superintended the 

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education of two young children 
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concerned and the scene is a 
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center of a historical English 
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Then as to the tragedy the wife 
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half a mile from the house late 
at night clad in her dinner 

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dress with a shawl over her 
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through her brain. 
No weapon was found near her and

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there was no local clue was to 
the murder, no weapon near her 

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Watson Mark that the crime seems
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the evening and the body was 
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11:00 when it was examined by 
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before being carried up to the 
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Is this to condensed or can you 
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Clearly, it is all very clear. 
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A revolver with one discharged 
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corresponded with the bullet was
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wardrobe. 
His eyes fixed, and he repeated,

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in broken words on the floor of 
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Then he sank into silence, and I
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had been set moving, which I 
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suddenly with a start, he 
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Once more? 
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It was fund pretty damning. 
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the dead woman had a note upon 
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that very place. 
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house. 
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There is the motive. 
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person if his wife dies who more
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young lady who had already by 
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attentions from her employer. 
Love fortune. 

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Power all depending upon one 
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Ugly, Watson. 
Very ugly. 

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Yes, indeed homes. 
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the contrary? 
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Darkness or bridge. 
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tragedy about that. 
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some passing villager had seen 
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yet Watson. 
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broad span of stone with 
balustraded sides, carries the 

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drive over the narrowest part of
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of water Thor. 
Mirror it is called in the mouth

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of the bridge, lay the dead 
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But here if Mistake. 
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before his time. 
Billy had opened the door but 

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the name, which he announced was
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Marlowe Bates was a stranger to 
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He was a thin nervous wisp of a 
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twitching hesitating manner, a 
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I would judge to be on the brink
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Down. 
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Bates said, Holmes. 
Praise sit down. 

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I fear. 
I can only give you a short time

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for. 
I have an appointment at 11. 

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I know you have a visitor 
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sentences, like a man who is out
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Gibson is coming mr. 
Gibson is my employer, I'm 

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manager of his estate, mr. 
Holmes, he is a villain, an 

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infernal villain. 
Strong language, mr. 

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Bates, I have to be emphatic, 
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Holmes for the time is so 
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Find me here for the world, he 
is almost do now, but I was so 

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situated that I could not come 
earlier, his secretary mr. 

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Ferguson only told me this 
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you and you are his manager. 
I've given him notice in a 

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couple of weeks, I shall have 
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Hard. 
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Holmes hard to all about him. 
Those public Charities are a 

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screen to cover his private 
iniquities but his wife was his 

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chief victim, he was brutal to 
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Yes, sir, brutal, how she came 
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I am sure that he had made her 
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She was a creature of the 
tropics, Brazilian Barbara's as 

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no doubt, you know No, it had 
escaped me the tropical by birth

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and tropical by Nature, a child 
of the Sun and of passion. 

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She had loved him as such women 
can love, but when her own 

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physical charms had faded, I am 
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there was nothing to hold him. 
We all liked her and felt for 

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her and hated him for the way 
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But he is plausible and cunning 
that is all I have to say to 

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you, don't take him at his face 
value. 

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There is more behind now. 
I'll go. 

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No, no. 
Don't detain me. 

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He is almost do with a 
frightened. 

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Look at the clock. 
Our Strange visitor, literally 

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ran to the door and disappeared.
Well well said, Holmes after an 

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interval of Silence, mr. 
Gibson, seems to have a nice 

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loyal household but the warning 
is a useful one and now we can 

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only wait till the man himself 
appears Shop at the ah, we heard

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a heavy step upon the stairs and
the famous millionaire was shown

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into the room. 
As I looked upon him, I 

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understood not only the fears 
and dislike of his manager but 

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also the execrations which so 
many business rivals have heaped

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upon his head. 
If I were a sculptor and desired

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to idealize the successful man 
of Affairs I and of nerve and 

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leathery of conscience, I should
choose mr. 

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Neil Gibson, as my model his 
tall gaunt craggy, figure had a 

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suggestion of huh Under and 
rapacity, an Abraham Lincoln 

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keyed to base uses. 
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some idea of the man, his face 
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Granite hard-set, craggy, 
remorseless with deep lines upon

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it. 
The scars of many a crisis. 

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Cold gray eyes looking shrewdly 
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browsed, surveyed us each in 
turn, he bowed in. 

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Perfunctory fashion has Holmes, 
mentioned my name and then with 

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a masterful are of possession. 
He drew a chair up to my 

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companion and seated himself 
with his bony knees. 

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Almost touching his. 
Let me say right here, mr. 

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Holmes, he began that money is 
nothing to me. 

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In this case, you can burn it, 
if it's any use. 

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In lighting you to the truth. 
This woman is innocent and this 

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woman has to be cleared and it's
up to you to do it. 

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Name, your figure My 
Professional Charges are upon a 

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fixed scale. 
Said Holmes coldly, I do not 

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vary them safe when I remit them
all together. 

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Well, if dollars, make no 
difference to you think at the 

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reputation, if you pull this off
every paper in England and 

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America will be booming, you 
you'll be the talk of two 

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continents. 
Thank you, mr. 

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Gibson. 
I do not think that I am in need

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of booming. 
It may surprise you to know that

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I prefer to work anonymously and
that it is the problem itself, 

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which attracts me, but we're 
wasting time. 

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Let us get down to the facts. 
I think that he will find all 

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the main ones in the Press 
reports. 

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I don't know that I can add 
anything, which will help you 

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but if Is anything you would 
wish more light upon? 

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Well, I'm here to give it. 
Well, there is just one point. 

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What is it? 
What were the exact relations 

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between you and Miss Dunbar? 
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start and half Rose from his 
chair. 

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Then his massive calm came back 
to him. 

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I suppose you are within your 
rights and maybe doing your duty

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in asking such a question, mr. 
Holmes, we will agree to 

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suppose, so said Holmes. 
Then I can assure you that our 

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relations were entirely and 
always those of an employer 

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towards a young lady who me. 
Never Conversed with our ever 

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saw safe when she was in the 
company of his children. 

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Holmes, Rose from his chair. 
I am rather a busy man, mr. 

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Gibson said, he and I have no 
time nor taste for aimless 

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conversations. 
I wish you good morning. 

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Our visitor had risen also and 
his great loose figured tired 

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above homes. 
There was an angry gleam from 

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under those bristling brows and 
a tinge of colour in the sallow 

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cheeks, what the devil do you 
mean by this mr. 

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Holmes, do you dismiss my case? 
Well mr. 

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Gibson at least I dismiss you. 
I should have thought my words 

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were plain plain enough. 
But w at the back of it, Raising

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the price on me or afraid to 
tackle it or what I have a right

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to a plain answer. 
Well, perhaps you have said, 

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Holmes, I'll give you one. 
This case is quite sufficiently 

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complicated to start with 
without the further difficulty 

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of false information meaning 
that I lie. 

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Well, I was trying to express it
as delicately as I could. 

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But if you insist upon the word,
I will not contradict you. 

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I sprang to my feet for the 
expression. 

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Upon the Millionaire's face was 
fiendish in its intensity and he

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had raised his great knotted 
fist Holmes, smiled languidly 

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and reached his hand out for his
pipe. 

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Don't be noisy, mr. 
Gibson, I find that after 

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breakfast, even the smallest 
argument is I suggest that a 

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stolen the morning air and a 
little quiet thought will be 

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greatly to your advantage. 
With an effort, the gold King 

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mastered his Fury. 
I could not, but admire him for 

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by a supreme self command. 
He had turned in a minute from a

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hot flame of anger to a frigid 
and contemptuous indifference 

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well it's your choice. 
I guess. 

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You know how to run your own 
business. 

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I can't make you touch the case 
against your will, you've done 

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yourself? 
No good this morning mr. 

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Holmes for I have broken Ganga 
man than you no man, ever 

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crossed me and was the better 
for it. 

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So many have said, so and yet 
here I am said, Holmes smiling? 

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Well, good morning mr. 
Gibson. 

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You will have a good deal yet to
learn Our visitor made a noisy 

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exit, but Holmes smoked in 
imperturbable, Silence, with 

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dreamy eyes fixed upon the 
ceiling. 

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Any fuse Watson, he asked at 
last, wow, homes. 

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I must confess that when I 
consider that, this is a man who

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would certainly brush any 
obstacle from his path and when 

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I remember that his wife may 
have been an obstacle and an 

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object of dislike as that man 
Bates. 

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And they told us it seems to me.
Exactly and to me also but what 

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way is relations with the 
governors and how did you 

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discover them? 
Laughs Watson Bluff. 

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When I considered the passionate
unconventional, unbusinesslike, 

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tone of his letter and 
contrasted it with his self 

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content Manner and appearance, 
it was pretty clear that there 

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was some deep emotion, which 
centered upon the accused woman 

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rather than upon the victim. 
We've got to understand the 

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exact relations of those three 
people. 

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If we are to reach the truth, 
You all saw the frontal attack 

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which I made upon him and how 
imperturbably he received it. 

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Then I bluffed him by giving him
the impression that I was 

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absolutely certain. 
When in reality I was only 

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extremely suspicious. 
Perhaps he will come back, he is

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sure to come back, he must come 
back. 

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He can't leave it where it is, 
huh? 

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Isn't that a ring? 
Yes, there is his footstep. 

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Well, mr. 
Gibson, I was just saying to dr.

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Watson that you were somewhat 
overdue. 

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The gold King had re-entered the
room in a more chastened mood 

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and he had left it. 
His wounded Pride still showed 

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in his resentful eyes, but his 
common-sense had shown him that 

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he must yield. 
If he would attain his end, I've

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been thinking it over mr. 
Holmes, and I feel that I have 

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been Hasty and taking your 
remarks and miss, you are 

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justified in getting down to the
facts, whatever, they may be and

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I think the more You for it. 
I can assure you, however, that 

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the relations between Miss 
Dunbar, and me, don't really 

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touch this case. 
That is for me to decide. 

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Is it not? 
Yes, I guess that is. 

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So you're like a surgeon once 
every symptom before he can give

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his diagnosis. 
Exactly, that expresses. 

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It and it is only a patient who 
has an object in Leaving his 

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surgeon. 
Who would conceal the facts of 

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his case? 
That may be so, but you will 

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admit mr. 
Holmes that most men would shy 

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off a bit when they're asked, 
point blank, what their 

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relations with a woman. 
Maybe if there is really some 

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serious feeling and the case I 
guess most men have a little 

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private reserve of their own in 
some corner of their souls, 

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where they don't welcome 
Intruders and Burst suddenly 

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into it, but the object excuses 
you, since it was to try and 

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save her. 
Well, the stakes are down and 

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the reserve open and you can 
explore where you will. 

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What is it? 
You want the truth? 

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The gold King paused for a 
moment. 

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As one who Marshals, his 
thoughts, his Grim deep lined 

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face had become even sadder and 
more grave I can give it to you 

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in a very few words. 
Mr. Holmes said he at last, 

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there are some things that are 
painful as well as difficult to 

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say so I won't go deeper than 
his needful. 

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I met my wife when I was gold 
hunting and Brazil. 

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Maria, pentile was the daughter 
of a government official at 

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Manassas and she was very 
beautiful. 

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I was young and Ardent in those 
days. 

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But even now, as I look back 
with cold or blood and a more 

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critical eye, I can see that she
was rare and wonderful in her 

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beauty. 
It was a deep rich nature, to 

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passionate wholehearted, 
tropical ill, balanced. 

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Very Efren from the American 
women. 

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Whom I had known well, to make a
long story short. 

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I loved her and I married her It
was only when the romance had 

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passed and it lingered for 
years, that I realized that we 

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had nothing absolutely nothing 
in common. 

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My love faded, if hers had 
faded. 

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Also, it might have been easier 
but you know, the wonderful way 

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of women. 
Do what I might, nothing could 

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turn her from me. 
If I have been harsh to her even

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brutal as some have said, it has
been because I knew that if I 

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could kill her love or if it 
turned to hate, it would be 

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easier for both of us but 
nothing changed her. 

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She adored me in those English 
words. 

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Are, she had adored me 20 years 
ago, on the banks of the Amazon 

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Do what I might she was as 
devoted as ever, then came, Miss

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Grace Dunbar. 
She answered our advertisement 

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and became governess to our two 
children. 

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Perhaps you have seen her 
portrait in the papers, the 

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whole world has proclaimed. 
That she also is a very 

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beautiful woman. 
Now, I make no pretense to be 

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more moral than my neighbors and
I will admit to you that I could

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not live under the same roof 
with such a woman and in daily 

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contact with her without feeling
a passionate regard for her. 

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Do you blame me mr. 
Holmes, I do not blame you for 

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feeling it. 
I should blame you if you 

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expressed it. 
Since this young lady it was in 

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a sense under your Well, maybe 
so set, the millionaire, though,

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for a moment, the reproof had 
brought the old angry gleam into

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his eyes. 
I'm not pretending to be any 

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better than I am, I guess, all 
my life. 

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I've been a man that reached out
his hand for what he wanted and 

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I never wanted anything more 
than the love and possession of 

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that woman told her so. 
Oh you did did you? 

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Holmes could look very 
formidable when he was moved. 

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I said to her that if I could 
marry her I would but then it 

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was out of my power. 
I said that money Was No Object 

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and that all I could do to make 
her happy and comfortable would 

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be done. 
Very generous I'm sure said 

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Holmes with a sneer see here mr.
Holmes I came to you on a 

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question of evidence, not on a 
question of morals. 

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I'm not asking For your credits 
is MM. 

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It is only for the young, 
ladies, six that I touch your 

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case at all said Holmes sternly,
I don't know that anything she 

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is accused of is really worse 
than what you have yourself, 

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admitted that you have tried to 
ruin a defenseless girl, who was

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under your roof. 
Some of you rich, men have to be

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taught that all the world cannot
be bribed into condoning, your 

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offenses. 
To my surprise, the gold King 

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took the reproof with 
Equanimity. 

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That's how I feel myself about 
it. 

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Now I thank God that my plans 
did not work out as I intended. 

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She would have none of it and 
she wanted to leave the house 

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instantly. 
Why did she not? 

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Wow. 
And the first place others were 

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dependent upon her and it was no
light matter for her to let them

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all down by sacrificing her 
living when I had sworn, as I 

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did that, she should never be 
molested again. 

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She can send it to remain but 
there was another reason she 

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knew the influence. 
She had over me and that it was 

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stronger than Any other 
influence in the world? 

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She wanted to use it for good. 
How? 

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Well, she knew something of my 
fears. 

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They are large mr. 
Holmes, large beyond the belief 

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of an ordinary man. 
I can make or break and it is 

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usually break. 
It wasn't individuals only, it 

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was communities cities. 
Even nation's business is a hard

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game and the week. 
Go to the wall, I played the 

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game for all it was worth. 
I never squealed myself and I 

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never cared if the other fellow 
squealed, but she saw it 

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different, I guess she was 
right. 

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She believed and said that, a 
fortune for one man, that was 

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more than he needed. 
Should not be built on 10,000 

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ruined men who were left without
the means of life, that was how 

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she saw it. 
And I guess she could see past 

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the dollars to something that 
has more lasting. 

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She found that I listen to what 
she said and she believed she 

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was serving the World by 
influencing my actions. 

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So she stayed and then this came
along Can you throw any light 

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upon that? 
The gold King paused for a 

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minute or more. 
His head sunk in his hands. 

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Lost in deep thought. 
It's very black against her. 

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I can deny that and women lead 
an inward life and may do things

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beyond the Judgment of a man. 
At first, I was so rattled and 

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taken aback that I was ready to 
think she had been LED away. 

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And some extraordinary fashion 
was clean against her usual 

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nature. 
One explanation came into my 

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head. 
I give it to you mr. 

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Holmes, for what it is worth, 
there is no doubt that my wife 

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was bitterly jealous. 
There is a soul jealousy that 

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can be as frantic as anybody 
jealousy and do. 

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My wife had no cause and I think
she understood this for the 

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ladder, she was aware that this 
English girl exerted an 

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influence once upon my mind and 
my ex that she herself never had

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It was an influence for good but
that did not mend the matter. 

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She was crazy with hatred and 
the Heat of the Amazon was 

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always in her blood. 
She might have planned to murder

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Miss Dunbar or we will say to 
threatened her with a gun and so

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frightened, her into leaving us.
Then there might have been a 

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scuffle and the gun gone off and
shot the woman who held it. 

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That possibility had already 
occurred. 

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To me said, Holmes, indeed it is
the only obvious alternative to 

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deliberate murder, but she 
utterly denies it. 

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Well, that is not final. 
Is it one can understand that a 

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woman placed in. 
So awful, a position, might 

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Area, Homes still in her 
bewilderment holding the 

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revolver. 
She might even throw it down. 

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Among her clothes hardly know. 
What she was doing. 

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And when it was found, she might
try to lie her way out by a 

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total denial. 
Since all explanation was 

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impossible, what is against such
a supposition Miss Dunbar 

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herself? 
Well, perhaps Holmes looked at 

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his watch. 
I have no doubt. 

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We can get the necessary permits
this morning and reach 

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Winchester by the evening train.
When I have seen this young 

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lady, it is very possible that I
may be of more use to you in the

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matter though. 
I cannot promise that my 

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conclusions will necessarily be 
such as you desire. 

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End of part. 
One of the problem of Thor 

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Bridge.