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In 1891 the Reichenbach Falls
near Marlington in Switzerland,

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Sherlock Holmes finally closed
his account with Professor Moriarty,

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the most dangerous criminal
of his generation.

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The two men were alone
in that dreadful place

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but the outcome of their struggle
was obvious to a trained observer.

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Holmes had achieved
the destruction of his archenemy

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only at the cost
of his own life.

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It is now three long years since my
dear friend plunged to his death.

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There deep down under
the swirling water

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the infamous Professor Moriarty

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and the foremost champion
of law of his

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generation will lie together
for all time.

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Even now, there is hardly
a corner of London

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that does not remind me
of my old friend.

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I never walk down Baker Street where we
shared rooms for so many eventful years

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without it reminding me
only too keenly of the past

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and the loss of one
I shall ever regard

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as the best and wisest
man I have ever known.

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I retained a keen interest
in criminal matters

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and supplemented my meager practice
by working as a police surgeon.

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It was in the early spring of 1894

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that I was called out early
in the morning

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to an appointment in the west end.

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Good morning Constable.

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Good morning Doctor. Inspector Lestrade
is waiting for you, first floor sir.

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Inspector?

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Early call I'm afraid Doctor.
I'm glad to see you.

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The Honorable Ronald Adair.

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Not there sir if you please.

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I'm sorry...

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Age twenty-three,

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the second son of the Earl and
Countess of Maynooth,

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father is governor of
one of the Australian colonies,

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mother in London for the winter,

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son and daughter are living in
this house with him.

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Suicide?

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Oh, no. No weapon.

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Oh uh, this, this found on the floor
beside the corpse.

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It's one of those soft nose
revolver bullets, horrible things.

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Must have gone right through
the poor fellows head.

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It's unusual, isn't it,
for a pistol to have such velocity?

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More like a rifle.

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Yes.

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Well it's murder then, Inspector.

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Oh yes.

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Any idea who it was?

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No. It's early days yet
but this one looks to me

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as if it could turn out
to be a bit of a puzzle.

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Well presumably he was
sitting in that chair.

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I suppose counting that money.

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Oh the murderer doesn't appear
to have been a thief.

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Adair had spent the evening
playing cards at his club.

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Time for one last hand?

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Oh yes indeed.

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Now we can get our revenge.

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Now Ronald, what's the damage?

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Ronald?

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I don't think Ronald couldn't
have gone out again.

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No, my lady. I heard him come
home at about half past ten.

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And he hasn't gone out again
that I'm sure.

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Mr. Ronald?

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Mr. Ronald sir.

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Let's break it down my lady.

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The condition of the body
death was instantaneous.

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I suppose the murderer
came in through the window.

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The window was open.
Same spot of the matter is, there-

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there are no signs of any intruder,
nothing, inside or out,

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I wouldn't like to climb up here at
night. It must have been a monkey.

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As you say Doctor, an impossibility.

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Looks like the murderer had wings

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Sort of case that would have interested
our old friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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Yes indeed.

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What a loss he is Doctor.

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I didn't always approve of his methods

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but he was the best amateur
there was or ever likely to be.

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There were times when he even got
the better of me.

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All right, Inspector, if you arrange for our
friend to be brought down the mortuary.

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I'll conduct an autopsy this afternoon.

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Yes indeed Doctor.

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See you at the inquest.

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Till then.

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Doctor... Watson.

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You are a police surgeon?

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Yes sir.

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You examined the deceased,
Ronald Frances Adair,

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who is the subject of this inquest

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and later conducted
a postmortem on the corpse?

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I did sir.

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Pray what are your findings?

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Well death occurred as the result

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of a bullet wound
from a point four-five revolver.

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Dr. Watson?
I beg you to keep to fact.

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My business is to establish
the facts of this case.

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I'm sorry sir. I don't understand.

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You say that the bullet came from
a point four-five revolver

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that is pure speculation on your part.

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It is not your business to start
guessing at the type of weapon used.

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That is a subject for the police.

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I'm sorry sir.

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Pray continue.

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Death occurred as the result
of a wound

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from a soft-nosed lead bullet.
The bullet-

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penetrated the skull
above the left eye,

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traversing the left frontal lobe
through the cerebellum

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and then exited from the skull
at the back of the head

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by the left occipital parietal suture.

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Your opinion,
when did death take place?

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Oh it would have
been instantaneous.

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Have you any idea how far

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this bullet had traveled
before it entered the body?

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I cannot be sure but it would certainly
be more than four or five feet.

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Time of death?

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Death occurred between
10:30 and 11:30

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post meridian on the twentieth
of this month.

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Thank you Doctor...

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Watson.

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Ronald Adair and I were in the
"Hello Eleven" together.

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He was a first-class bat,
pretty effective leg spinner.

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A good sportsmen, in fact?

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Absolutely first class sportsman sir.

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Straight as a dime. One of
the most popular fellows I know.

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Thank you Mr. Murray.

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Sir John Hardie.

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I was Ronald Adair's godfather
and a trustee of the estate.

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Of course the family's absolutely
devastated by this appalling tragedy.

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I put the boy up for the Bagatelle
Cup as a matter of fact.

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He always he enjoyed
the game of cards.

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Win or lose?

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Would that affect Mr. Adair
in any way, Sir John?

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Lord no, not in the least,

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He never paid such high stakes
that could affect him at all.

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The family fortune
is a very considerable one.

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Thank you Sir John
You have been a great help

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and may I say that evidence from such
a distinguished person, as yourself,

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is greatly valued by the court.

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Colonel Moran.

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You were the last person
known to of seen Mr. Adair.

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Did you know him well?

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I wouldn't say that I
knew Ronald Adair well.

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I knew his father, Lord
Maynooth, very well.

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We used to play polo
together in India.

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But Ronald...

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I've seen quite a good bit
in the dark clubs over the past

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few months we played cards
together from time to time.

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Oh charming boy.
Good manners, intelligent,

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Matter of fact, he's just
the stamp of a young fellow

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I'd like to see joining
my old regiment.

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Did you notice anything unusual about
him? Did he seem worried or upset

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on the last evening you saw him?

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Not in the least,
Quite the opposite in fact.

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Have you any idea why someone
should choose to murder him?

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No idea at all.

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I doubt if he had an enemy
in the world.

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Thank you Colonel Moran.

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Inspector Lestrade, would you give me
your opinion as to the cause

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of the Honorable Ronald Adair's death?

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Yes sir. Willful murder by person
or persons unknown.

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Cab.

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Willful murder by person
or persons unknown.

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Yes?

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A gentleman to see you Doctor.

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Is it an urgent matter?

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I don't know Doctor.

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Well did he give you his card?

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No Doctor.

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Ivy if I've told you once.
I've told you hundred times,

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my consulting hours are
plainly displayed outside.

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Now please...

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Oh sir,

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Doctor Watson?

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Yes indeed sir.
You may go Ivy.

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I am exceedingly busy sir.

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Oh of course you are Doctor.

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Of course you are a man of
considerable responsibilities

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but I heard you give your address to
that cab driver outside the courtroom.

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I said to myself I'll just hobble around
and see that Kind gentlemen,

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I have a conscious.
I felt a little gruff in my manner

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I meant no harm by it I'm much obliged
to him for helping me pick up my books.

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You make too much of a trifle sir.

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You should have spared yourself the
journey. Now if you'll excuse me...

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No great journey sir,
I am a neighbor of yours.

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You will find my little bookshop
on the corner of Church Street.

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I'm very happy to see you
and I'm sure that...

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perhaps... you collect...

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I have British Birds...

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quite a rare volume of The Holy War
bargains everyone.

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Just the books you need
to fill up your bookcase.

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Give it a little weight.
It does look untidy, does it not?

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Watson, do you mind if I smoke
a cigarette in your consulting room?

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A thousand apologies
my dear Watson.

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I had no idea that you
would be so affected.

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Holmes! Is it really you?

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Can it really be that you're alive?

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But are you really fit
enough to discuss things?

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I have given you a serious shock by
my unnecessarily dramatic reappearance.

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No, No, No I'm all right.
I'm all right,

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but indeed, Holmes,

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I can hardly believe my eyes.
Good heavens,

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to think that you, you of all men
should be here in my consulting room.

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Well you're not a spirit at least.
My dear chap,

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I'm overjoyed to see you.
Sit down, sit down

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and tell me how you came alive
out of that awful chasm.

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Oh I'm glad to stretch myself.

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It's no joke when a tall man
has to take a foot off his

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stature for several hours on end.

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Now, my dear fellow, we have a hard

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and dangerous night's work
ahead of us.

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Perhaps it would be better
if I gave you an account

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of the whole situation
when that work is finished.

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No, no, no. I'm full of curiosity,
I should much prefer to hear now.

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But you will come with me tonight?

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When you like where you like.

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Ha! Watson.

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This is just like the old days.

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We might have a chance for a mouthful
of dinner before we need go.

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Dinner of course but first
you must tell me everything.

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You sure you're all right?

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Yeah, I'm fine.

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Well then...

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about that chasm.

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I had no serious difficulty in getting
out of it for the very simple reason

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that I was never in it.

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You were never in it?

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No, Watson. I never was in it.

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The note that I left on the rock at the
Reichenbach Falls was absolutely genuine.

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I had little doubt that
my career had come to an end

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when I perceived the somewhat
sinister figure of Moriarty

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standing upon the narrow pathway
that led to safety.

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I read an inexorable
purpose in his gray eyes.

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I managed to obtain his
courteous permission

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to write the note which
you afterwards received.

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It has remained my
treasured possession.

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It was a few months later
that I read with

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great interest your description
of my death.

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It was excellently done,
the most picturesque

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and exciting piece of fiction.

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Well I'm certainly glad from the bottom
of my heart that it was fiction,

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but what did really happen?

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When I reached the ledge,
I stood at bay.

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He drew no weapon,
but rushed at me

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and threw his long
arms around me.

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He knew that his game was up.

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He was only anxious to
revenge himself upon me.

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I have, however, some
knowledge of baritsu,

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or the Japanese system of wrestling,

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which has on more than one occasion,
been very useful to me.

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My God.

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But... but how did you get
away from that place?

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It was not a pleasant business.

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Even as Professor Moriarty
disappeared into oblivion

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it struck me what an extraordinary
lucky chance

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Fate had placed in my way.

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I knew that at least one of Moriarty's
henchmen would seek my demise now.

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With even keener determination
to revenge their dead leader

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but if I could convince the world
that I too was dead,

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so I decided

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to disappear then and there.

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Heavens above.

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But the tracks Holmes?

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I saw them with my own eyes. Two
went down the path and none returned.

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I'm not a fanciful person Watson,

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but I give you my word
there were times during that climb

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when I seemed to
hear Moriarty's voice

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screaming at me
from out of the abyss.

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At last I reached a place where
I was able to remain unseen.

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Holmes.

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From my concealed place,

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I watched you and your followers
investigate in the most sympathetic

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and inefficient manner
the circumstances of my death.

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At last, when you had
all formed your

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inevitable but totally erroneous
conclusions, you departed.

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It was time for me
to be on my way.

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Of course, the meaning
of this was obvious.

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Moriarty had not been alone.

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A confederate

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from a distance had been witness
to his friend's demise and my escape.

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I did not take long to
think about it, Watson.

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I took to my heels and
covered ten miles

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over the mountains
in the pending darkness.

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A week later
I found myself in Florence,

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with the certainty that no one in the
world knew what had become of me.

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I had one confidant
my brother Mycroft.

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I had to confide in him in order
to obtain the money I needed to live.

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Of course.

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I owe you many apologies,
my dear Watson,

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but it was all-important that
it should be thought I was dead,

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and it is quite certain that you
would not have written so convincing

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an account of my unhappy end

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had you yourself not
thought that it was true.

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I have taken up my pen to write
to you, but always I feared

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lest your affectionate regard
might tempt you to some indiscretion,

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which would betray my secret.

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I would have thought I was
as trustworthy as your brother.

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Of course you are Watson...

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But you have a kinder heart.

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But what have you done
all these long years?

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As you may have read
of the remarkable

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explorations of a Norwegian
called Sigerson,

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but I am sure that
it never occurred to you

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that you were receiving news
of your friend.

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For two years I traveled to Tibet

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and amused myself by visiting Lhasa

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and spending some time
with the head Lama.

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I then moved to Persia,
and paid a short

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but interesting visit to
the Khalifa in Khartoum,

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the results of which I have
passed on to Lord Ketchum

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in the Foreign Office,
anonymously of course.

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You mean you actually saw the palace
where Gordon was murdered?

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It was a sorry sight, of ruin.

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His blood still upon his jacket.

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Lately I've been in France in Montpellier
to research the coal tar derivatives.

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Then came the news of
this remarkable murder,

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which not only appealed
to my by its own merits,

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but would seem to offer
some most peculiar

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personal opportunities.

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So here I am.

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Have you been to Baker Street?

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Yes. I called there this morning
in my own person.

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Mycroft had preserved my rooms

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and my papers exactly
as they had always been.

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So it was, that I found myself
in my old rooms,

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sitting in my old chair,
and only wishing that

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I could have seen
my dear friend, Watson

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sitting in the other chair
which he has so often adorned.

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And so I hope I will be.

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What... what a
remarkable story.

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Are you still in possession
of your Army revolver?

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Well I think I have it somewhere.

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See that you bring
it with you tonight.

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I have piece of work for
both of us which

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if we bring to a successful
conclusion, will in itself

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justify a man's life on this planet.

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I beg you to tell me about it.

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You will see and hear
enough before morning.

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Watson? May I occupy your couch
for a few hours?

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The sea was exceeding rough
during the channel crossing

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and the prospect of seeing London again
and an intimate encounter with one of

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Moriarty's confederates
plus the added pleasure

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of seeing my old friend Watson

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quite prohibited sleep
on the railway train.

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My dear Holmes, please,
my bedroom is at your disposal.

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No, No, No.
This will suit me very well.

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I've had harder beds than this
over the past few years.

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Do you know where we are?

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Surely that is Baker Street.

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Exactly. But in the empty house
opposite our old quarters.

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Why are we here?

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Because it commands such an excellent
a view of that picturesque pile.

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Might I trouble you, Watson,

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to be so kind as to draw
a little nearer to the window,

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taking every precaution
not to reveal yourself,

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and then to look into our old rooms?

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Let us see where the three years
of absence have entirely

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taken away my power to surprise you.

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Good heavens!

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It's marvelous.

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I trust that age doth not wither
nor custom stale my infinite variety.

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It is rather like me, is it not?

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I should be prepared
to swear it was you.

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The construction is due to a Monsieur
Oscar Meunier of Grenoble.

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The bust is in wax.

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The rest I arranged during my visit
to Baker Street earlier.

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But why?

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Because I have the strongest
possible reason

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for wishing certain people
to believe that I was there

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when I was really elsewhere.

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You thought the rooms were watched?

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I knew that they
were being watched.

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By whom?

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By the one remaining member of
that charming society

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whose leader lies
in the Reichenbach Falls.

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Sooner or late he believed
that I would come back

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to my rooms. So he had them
watched continuously.

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I was observed when I
arrived this morning.

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I recognized the sentinel.

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Parker by name,

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a garrotter by trade

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and a remarkable
upon the jew's-harp.

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Now I understand the reason
for the old bookseller.

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I cared not about Parker

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but I care a great deal about the much
more formable person who is behind him,

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the bosom friend of Moriarty.

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That is the man who
is after me tonight

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and let us hope
that he is also the man

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who is totally unaware
that we are after him.

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Holmes. Look.

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Just beyond the house.

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Couple of shady
characters in the doorway.

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Yes I see them.

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Well shouldn't we do something?

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Holmes, the shadow's moved.

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Certainly it has moved.

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I involved Mrs. Hudson.

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We have been in this room two hours
and she has made-

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some change in that figure eight times,
or once every quarter,

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Mr. Holmes.

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Lestrade how nice to see you.

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So it really is you? When I received
your message I could scarce believe it.

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You seem to want
some unofficial help.

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Three undetected murders
in one year won't do you know.

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Holmes I know this man.

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Of course you do Watson.
So does the Inspector.

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Colonel Sebastian Moran,
once of Her Majesty's Indian Army,

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and the best heavy game shot our
Eastern Empire has ever produced.

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I believe I'm correct, Colonel,

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in saying that your bag of
tigers still remain unrivalled?

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I wonder that my simple stratagem
could deceive so old a shikari.

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How many times have you not tethered
a young kid under a tree,

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laid above it with your rifle,

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and waited for your bait
to bring up your tiger?

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This empty house is my tree,
and you're my tiger!

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The parallel is exact.

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You may or may not have just cause
for arresting me

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but there can be no reason why I should
be subjected to the jives of this person.

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If I'm in the hands of the law
let things be done in a legal way.

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Well that sounds reasonable.

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Anything further to
say before we go?

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Only to ask what charge
you intend to prefer?

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What charge sir?

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Why of course the attempted
murder of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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Not so Lestrade.

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To you, and to you only belongs
the credit of this remarkable arrest.

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With your usual mixture of cunning
and audacity and you have got him.

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I don't understand
you Mr. Holmes.

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Do you mean this man?

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The man whom the entire police force
has been seeking in vain,

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Colonel Sebastian Moran,

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who shot the young Adair
through the open window

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of his parent's house upon
the twentieth of last month.

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That is your charge Lestrade.

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You were quite the heron
of the occasion Mrs. Hudson.

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Why I don't know, I'm short.

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I hope you have observed
all precautions?

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Oh yes sir, I went to it on my
knees just exactly as you told me

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and a good crick in
my back to prove it.

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Oh I was frightened Doctor

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and when that window shattered
I thought I should have died.

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Yes you did it very
well Mrs. Hudson.

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There's no sign of the bullet.

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Excuse me sir,
a moment if you please.

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What is it?

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I have it here.
I picked it up off the carpet.

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Mrs. Hudson you are
becoming indispensable.

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A soft revolver bullet,

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as you perceive,
there's genius in that-

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for who would expect such a thing
to be fired from an air gun?

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It's no ordinary air gun.

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No indeed.
Remarkable and unique weapon.

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Noiseless and of tremendous power
I knew Von Herder

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the blind German mechanic
who constructed it

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to the order of
the late Professor James Moriarty.

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Watson, look at this.
The old shikari's nerves-

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had not lost their steadiness
nor his eyes their keenness.

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The results are appalling.

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Yes indeed.

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Have you heard of the name Moran
before Adairs murder?

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No I had not.

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Well, well, well
such is the price of fame.

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Would you be so kind to hand me
down my L-M index?

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Our biographies Watson?

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My list of M's is a fine one.

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Mind you Moriarty's name is
enough to make any letter illustrious.

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I seem to remember
Morgan the poisoner.

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Merridew an abominable memory.
And there was Mathews,

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who knocked out my left canine
in Charing Cross Station.

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Awe there is our
friend of last night.

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Moran, Sebastian, Colonel.
Son of Sir Augustus Moran,

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once British Minister to Persia.
Educated Eton, Oxford.

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Served in Jowaki Campaign,
Afghan Campaign

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Sherpur, Cabul mention to dispatches.

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The second most dangerous
man in London.

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This is astonishing Holmes. This is
the career of an honorable soldier.

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It's true.

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Up to a certain point he did well
yet there are some trees, Watson,

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which grow to a certain height
and then suddenly

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develop some unsightly eccentricity.
You will often find it in humans.

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Whatever the cause,
Moran began to go wrong.

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Without an open scandal he still
made India too hot to hold him.

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He retired, came back to London
but again he acquired an evil name.

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It was about this time that he was
sought out by Professor Moriarty.

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When you were in
Switzerland, Watson,

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Moran followed us with Moriarty
and it was undoubtedly he

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who gave me those evil five minutes
above the Reichenbach Falls.

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Well now I can understand
why you disappeared.

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With a fellow like
this, free in London,

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your life would not
have been worth living.

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All I could do was wait and watch
the criminal news knowing

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that if I was patient sooner or later
he would make a mistake.

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But I heard of the murder
of Ronald Adair,

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I knew that at last my chance
had come.

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Knowing what I did was it not certain
that Colonel Moran had done it.

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He played cards with the lad

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followed him home from his club
and shot him

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through the open window
from the rooftop opposite.

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Watson does anything else
remain for me to explain?

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Yes.

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You have not made clear
what was Moran's motive

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in murdering the
Honorable Ronald Adair.

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There we move into the
realms of conjecture.

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Each may form his own hypothesis
upon the present evidence

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and yours is as likely
to be correct as mine.

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Watson have you formed one?

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I think so.

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Let me hear.

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Well it's not difficult
to explain the facts.

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There must have been a considerable
amount of money involved

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and Moran had undoubtedly played foul.

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I think that Adair had discovered
that he was cheating.

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Splendid.

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Very likely he spoke to him privately and
threatened to expose Moran unless he

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voluntarily resigned membership in his
club and promised not to play again.

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Watson this is excellent.

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Exclusion from his club
would mean ruin to Moran,

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who lived by his ill-gotten card gains.

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Therefore, he murdered Adair.

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Will it pass?

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I think, without doubt,
that you have hit upon the truth.

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Anyway it will be verified or disproved
at the trial. Meanwhile, come what may

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Colonel Moran will trouble us no more.

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And the famous air gun of Von Herder
will embellish the Scotland Yard Museum.

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Come in.

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Once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes
is free to devote his life

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to examining those interesting
little problems,

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which the complex life of London.
So plentifully presents.