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My Dear Holmes, today I walked
14 miles across rough terrain

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and hardly a twinge from
either my leg or my shoulder.

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The landscape is as handsome
as it is reported.

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I still entertain the hope that
I can prevail upon you to join me.

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I appreciate, of course that the
beauties of nature mean little to you,

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but I believe you would have found some
of the guests at my hotel most intriguing.

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Moral splendor is on display in the
person of the striking Major Schlessinger,

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a hero of the Boer War,

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sadly crippled in the defense of Ladysmith
and now engaged in charitable work.

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His nurse is a Miss Calder
whose attentiveness suggests not only

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that she is his disciple but also
that tenderer feelings may be involved.

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Most fascinating of all, however,
is an extraordinary woman,

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one who would stand out
in any society,

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the Lady Frances Carfax.

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I suppose one would call her modern

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except that she seems to come from
an ancient line of English eccentrics.

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Yesterday, as if to confirm
the general opinion of her oddity,

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she declared that she would sail herself
to church across the lake.

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There was much speculation
in the hotel carriage

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as we traveled towards the charming
little lakeside chapel

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about whether Lady Frances
would be as good as her word.

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And those of us foolish enough to
doubt her were soon rebuked

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by the sight of a skiff moored
in the shallows

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and by the stern gaze of its captain
when she greeted us within.

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A surprisingly jolly sermon, Vicar,
I laughed like a cat.

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Well, she appears to care not a jot
what her fellow guests make of her

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and seems quite insensible to
the vivid impression

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she creates wherever she goes.

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We were all amused, certainly, at the
sight of her trying to board the skiff,

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but since she had accomplished
the outward journey with such skill,

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we had no reason to suppose
that her return voyage

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would present her with
any greater difficulty,

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or that it would end
in the way that it did.

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I had decided to
walk back across the fill

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so I was not amongst
those who waited

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to cheer Lady Frances
on her return.

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I arrived a little later

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at exactly the moment when
tragedy threatened to strike.

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Help!

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Help, here!

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Help!

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I was helpless, my dear Holmes,
helpless.

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I have never felt so powerless
in my life,

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as powerless, so I thought,
as the old soldier in his wheelchair

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who had only been able to shout,
it seemed, for help.

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As with many men, I have noticed
a weakness in one part of the body

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is compensated by
great strength elsewhere.

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Unable to walk,

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Schlessinger was yet able to swim
powerfully with his arms alone.

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Reinforcements arrived in
due course from the hotel,

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and tragedy was happily averted.

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Now, all parties are recovered,

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it is reported that the Lady Frances
is resentful of her rescue

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as if her suffragette principles
had been somehow compromised.

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All agree at any rate that Major
Schlessinger is the hero of the hour.

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Miss Calder's attentions are now
translated into patent adoration.

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No doubt further praise
will be in order

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when he lectures on his missionary
activities at the hotel tomorrow.

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He is, by the way,
the British representative of

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the Mission Church of
Christ the Healer

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whose theater works
in the high Andes of Peru.

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Morning.

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Major Schlessinger is avoiding me.

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The poor man is embarrassed by
his own heroism.

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Perhaps he now thinks I'm obliged to
contribute to his work.

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Men have such extraordinary
weaknesses.

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Don't you think?

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Oh, yes, certainly, we do,
of course, I agree.

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Would you care to take a turn
by the lake, Doctor?

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Major Schlessinger works tirelessly
for his church, does he not?

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I understand the need for
funds is considerable.

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He's lecturing on his cause
tomorrow here in the hotel

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hoping to raise some money.

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He'll do well.

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The local matronage will happily part
with half a guinea each

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for the company of such a man
albeit in public.

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Do I shock you?

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Not at all.

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I shock my brother.

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As the Earl of Rufton, I think
he feels it is his duty to be shocked.

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Oh, it's very beautiful here,
isn't it?

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I spent every summer of
my childhood here by this lake.

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It's very beautiful.

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It is indeed.

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He's to visit me tomorrow.

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Who?

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My brother.

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That is duty, too, of course.

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Damn him.

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Damn him!

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Ah, Lady Frances!

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What a pleasant surprise!

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I must confess that her behaviour
continues to fascinate me.

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I grant that her reaction to this
unknown horseman was extreme,

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but many of her reactions are.

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Had she known him, I wonder?

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What lies in her past to
prompt this fear of him?

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In looking for an explanation,

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I am placing some hopes in the visit
we expect this afternoon

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from her brother, the Earl of Rufton.

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By all accounts, his oddities are
of an entirely different order

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from those of his sister.

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Where she flouts convention,

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he has raised the conventions of
a former era to the status of a faith.

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As for myself, I notice
an increasing indifference

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to the natural beauty
which lies about me.

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My thoughts return constantly
to the Lady Frances.

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There is something about her life
which prompts my sympathy, some-

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unhappiness I can sense
which I would dearly like to dispel.

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It is to be hoped that her spirits
will be lifted by her brother's visit,

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for she remains subdued
from yesterday's strange encounter.

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Who is he, Holmes?

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Why does he not wish
to make himself known?

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Why indeed?

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Watson, you're a brick,

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I came here, Fanny, to see how
you were, not to be lectured.

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It's not a lecture,
it's a request.

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It sounds like a lecture.

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It's quite simple,
I need some money.

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Just like that?

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I suppose you've been overdoing it
again, haven't you?

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I do not "overdo" it, John.

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If I have ever overspent the wretched
allowance you give me,

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it's because someone
has been in need.

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Oh, yes,
your famous heart of gold,

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except that it's my money
and there isn't any.

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You know perfectly well there isn't.
The hall is falling to bits.

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There's a family of owls
in the East Wing and you think...

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What is it this time?
Helping penniless poets in Islington?

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You only know how to be cruel,
don't you?

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When have you ever cared for
what I want?

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The last 15 years of my life
have been wretched.

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And now, at last, I had a chance

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to make something of it. Doesn't that
have any meaning for you?

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Good afternoon.

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The difference it makes is that
I'm being told what to do.

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You know I loathe it.

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The trouble is you won't even
take advice, will you?

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You've been offered everything.
You've turned it all down.

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What have I been offered?

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Marriage. Good marriages.

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To be the unpaid slave of
a titled yokel

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who hasn't even read a book,

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who thinks Bach is
something terriers do?

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All right, all right.

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What have you got against
me doing this? What?

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I want to get out of this
miserable mess my life is in,

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to be my own woman,
for God's sake,

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to fulfill just a portion of my life.

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Why do you always
hold me back?

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Think of it, John, think of it.

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Just one payment. One.

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You could see the back
of me forever.

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The mule express,
as we have dubbed it,

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brings the mail once a month,
letters, of course,

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and food for the mind from
the Library of Christ.

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And medicines for
the well being of my flock

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whom you may see here
posing outside the mission

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below a temporary belfry.

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When I show you the next picture

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of a leading member
of my congregation,

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you will understand how the parable
of the shepherd and the lost sheep

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has become transmuted
in our teaching

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into that of the llama herd
and the lost llama.

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And finally, our church.

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Humble as it is rough
and poor indeed,

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I'm proud to tell you that
the word of God

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is preached as fervently
within its walls

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and is as joyously received there

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as in any great cathedral
here at home.

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Thank you, thank you.
It was inspiring as I predicted.

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I regret to say that
the rigours of his itinerary

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press hard upon Major Schlessinger

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who will shortly be departing
for Whitehaven.

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We shall be taking up a collection

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on behalf of his estimable mission,
of course.

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What do you mean?

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I mean that the remedy lies
in your own hands.

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How?

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You know how.

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If you're really serious,
you'll know what to do! Damn it!

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I'm sick of you coming to me
with these crackpot notions.

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You know my responsibilities.

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If you hadn't thrown away
all your chances,

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you wouldn't be
in this position now.

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Well, I've had enough.

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You know what you have to do.
Grow up and do it!

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My last resort.

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My very last resort!
How can you suggest it?

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Groom!

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Where the devil are you?

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In which room is Mr. Schlessinger's
meeting taking place?

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I am afraid the meeting finished
half an hour ago, Madam.

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Mr. Schlessinger will have left for
Whitehaven by now.

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Oh, yes. Yes, I've forgotten.
Thank you.

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Lady Frances!

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Leave me alone.

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Excuse me.

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You, sir!

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I've no doubt you will tell me
my fears are unfounded, Holmes,

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but the repeated appearance of this
man has cast a shadow over her life

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which, try as she might,
she cannot lift.

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Evening paper, Mr. Holmes.

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Mrs. Hudson, fetch me a cab!

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Mrs. Hudson. As soon as
the telegraph office is open,

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to Dr. John Watson, Lake Hotel,
Felmire, Cumberland.

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But Mr. Holmes?

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I shall not be here, Mrs. Hudson.

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Dr. Watson.

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I shall be on the 8:17 out of Euston.

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Dr. Watson!

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My cab awaits you downstairs.

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Read.

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Mr. Holmes...

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Read!

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"Grave danger Lady Frances, stop.
Never let from sight, stop."

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"On my way, Holmes."

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How long has this been here?

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Holmes.

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Disappeared, Watson.

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Disappeared.

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Did Lady Frances pay her bill?

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No, sir.

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Did she order any transport?

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No, sir.

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And she took none of her luggage?

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We think not, sir.

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Where is Mr. Holmes?

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Nothing yet, Holmes.

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I'm beginning to fear the worst.

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I blame myself. I knew I should
have pursued that fellow.

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It is a possibility.

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What is?

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Do you not see it?
It is most conspicuous.

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The skiff, Watson,
the sailing skiff.

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It's not here.

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Precisely.

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It is possible there lies the Lady
Frances Carfax silent road to Arranside.

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It is the nearest railhead
as you know.

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You don't mean that this fellow
abducted her by boat?

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Silk. It is one of the three
more likely possibilities.

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Best French sewn, dove gray.

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She had a gray silk shawl.

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No, that will tell us
nothing more.

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What other three possibilities,
Holmes?

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In what did she usually
wear the shawl?

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Oh, her outside clothes.
The three possibilities?

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She may have run away with
her intended abductor.

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He may have abducted her by boat
as you suggest or by some other means.

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She may, considering
her emotional condition,

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have been deceived
into going with him.

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I can hardly believe that. She was
terrified of him, believe me.

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I believe you.

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Yes.

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A stray chicken
In the world of foxes.

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Once she's gobbled up,
she's hardly missed.

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Come, Watson. And our horses
should be saddled by now.

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Horses?

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I have been somewhat extravagant
in choice of mounts,

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but delay must be dangerous
in this matter.

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We should be
at Rufton Hall at dusk.

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I don't see what possible interest
it could have for you, sir.

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Considerable interest
I assure you.

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One of the most dangerous classes
in the world

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is the drifting and friendless woman

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with no one to
protect and guide her.

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She is the inevitable inciter
of crime in others.

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I treat the disappearance of
your sister with utmost seriousness.

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Do you think I do not?

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I'm merely suggesting that
it is frivolous

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to keep from me
the substance of your quarrel.

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It was after all

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this quarrel which immediately
preceded her disappearance.

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Might it have something to do with
a drunken poet she once knew?

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I understand of my colleague that
she may have seen him recently.

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Green?

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I thought I'd seen the last of him.

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I sent him packing 15 years ago.

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What is his connection
with your sister?

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He used to court her,
great brute of a fellow.

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She wouldn't have anything
to do with him.

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The Honorable Philip Green.
Never was a title so abused.

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He went to the dogs completely,
drink, gambling.

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Ended up destitute in Islington
pretending to write poetry.

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Of course, Frances became interested
in him as soon as he lost everything.

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How did you send him packing?

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He was a violent fellow,
and he drank.

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I'd heard talk of prosecution,
debt, assault.

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I gave him 100 pounds and
bought him a ticket to Australia.

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Show his face around here,
I'll set the dogs on him.

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Now, your quarrel with your sister.

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Money. She wanted money.

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She has none of her own?

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I make her an allowance
out of the estate.

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It's modest, but
you've seen the place.

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She has no assets herself?

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Yes, she has.

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I told her if she wanted money,
she could sell this.

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It's a priceless collection.

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That was designed for
the French royal family by Fragonard.

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We acquired it all at the revolution,
and now, it's hers.

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What I have is owls,
owls in the East Wing.

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Want to see the owls?

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Where does she keep them?
Does she travel with them?

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No.

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Well, now, where are they kept?

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My Lord, your sister
has vanished!

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How and why we do not know,

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but I have reason to believe
that she is in the gravest danger.

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Were we to know the whereabouts
of the jewelry,

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we might have some chance
of saving her.

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The Oxford and Lombard Maritime
Bank in Pall Mall.

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Thank you.

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The Oxford and Lombard Bank
opens its doors in 12 hours.

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She may already have
come and gone.

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The bank's been open
for 20 minutes.

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I've been quite blind, Holmes.

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I had the evidence in the palm of
my hand. If anything's happened...

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Calm yourself, my dear friend.

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Holmes, look!

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May I help you, sir?

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Yes, please, I wish to see
the manager, Sir Paulo McNeil.

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It's a private matter concerning
a family deposit with the bank.

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My colleague...

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Watson!

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You, sir.

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You, sir! What have you done with
the Lady Frances Carfax?

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I insist upon an answer.

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Mr. Green, sir,
please excuse my friend.

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He spent the last night
on the Carlisle rail express.

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No, Watson, please, please.

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Frances!

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I blame myself.

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No, you need not.

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Nevertheless, I do.

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We all bear equal blame.

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She's disappeared again,
and that is that.

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It is pointless to dwell on it.

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Our task now is to find her.

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Mr. Green,

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let us go back to that moment
by the lake yesterday morning.

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I was out riding in the dawn

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and I saw the skiff sailing across
the lake toward Arranside.

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And you realized that it was
the Lady Frances?

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Yes.

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Was she alone?

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Yes.

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Please continue.

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I managed to board the same train.

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I begged her to speak to me.

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I told her how I'd traveled the world
and had become a very rich man.

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I told her that I'd
never stopped loving her,

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and that she could have
whatever she wanted.

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I can see her now.

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She sat saying nothing,
smiling like a sphinx.

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"No," she said...
She wanted to go her own way.

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When we got to London,
I followed her as best I could,

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but she seemed determined
to be rid of me.

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I lost her somewhere
near Sellick Bridge.

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Sellick?
Oh, that is most interesting.

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Why?

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I'm reliably informed that his usual
haunts are west of Westminster.

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Who's haunts?

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How did you come to
be at the bank?

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I reasoned that she would be needing
money while she was in London,

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and I know the address of
the family bank well enough.

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I had the wild idea of
enlisting the manager's help.

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Do you know where she is,
Mr. Holmes?

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No, I do not.

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Where do you think she is?

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I believe that through
our efforts to save her,

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we have driven her into
the hands of her worst enemy.

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But we saw her free.

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My dear Watson, a person may
walk over the edge of the cliff

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because they've been
invited to gaze at the moon.

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Her eyes may be open, but
she is, I believe, at this moment

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walking into mortal danger.

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Schlessinger?

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Mr. Schlessinger.

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This last week I sought
to acquaint myself

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with the world of
apostolic missions.

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I've also made a search of
the records of Scotland Yard.

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Schlessinger

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is also known as
the Reverend Joseph Cubbington,

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Amos Callow, the Dean of Masaro,

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and Edmund, the Bishop of Lima.

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His real name, in fact, is Peters.
He's a confidence trickster,

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known at Scotland Yard
by the uninspired logic

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of that place as Holy Peters.

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What is not yet suspected,

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but incontrovertible, nonetheless, is
that he is a murderer.

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Peter's specialty is the beguiling of
Single woman with private means

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by playing on their religious and
charitable feelings.

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Helena Rosenbloom had been engaged
in charitable work for ten years

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when she met Schlessinger.

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He inspired her to devote her energies
to a new mission in the Andes.

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Miss Rosenbloom changed her will,
said good-bye to her former life,

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and boarded the SS Almeria at
Glasgow bound for South America.

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She was lost overboard
the first night at sea.

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The SS Almeria docked
at Liverpool

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for the family to retrieve
her effects.

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Schlessinger also disembarked.

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He went to ground at
the Lake District

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where he met his next
intended victim,

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the Lady Frances Carfax.

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At last, gentlemen!

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At last!

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Where was it pawned?

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Riley's of Stockwell.

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It was by my calculation
the 27th shop I tried.

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Riley has received two sentences
to my knowledge

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for the receipt of stolen goods.
He will cooperate with us.

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What does this mean?
What does it mean?

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Please, Mr. Green, this is pointless.
Don't torture yourself.

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Do you think the torture is
self-induced?

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The thought of Frances
in the hands of criminals.

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Such thoughts come unbidden,
Mr. Holmes.

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They break through
the strongest defenses

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the mind can raise against them.

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Calm yourself, Mr. Green,
calm yourself.

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If she's still innocent

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of Schlessinger's true identify,
she may well be safe for a time.

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And if not?

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Then it is clear that he cannot let
her loose without his own destruction.

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Now, we must continue to hope that
she remains ignorant of who he is.

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Fifteen years.

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I knew I could never come back
until I'd made something of myself.

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Perhaps it was foolish
of me to think

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that she would look kindly on me
after all these years, but...

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I was ridiculously encouraged
by the fact that she was not married.

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And now, my stupidity has driven her
into the arms of a murderer.

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What can I do?

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Is there nothing I can do?

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Does Schlessinger know you
by sight?

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No.

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Ah, well, then there is something
that you can do.

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But it'll demand great patience.

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I have waited for 15 years,
Mr. Holmes.

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Schlessinger's had a fair price for
the jewelry and no questions asked.

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He'll almost certainly return
to Riley's shop.

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The Rosenblooms have challenged the will.
Now, give this note to Riley.

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He will let you wait at the shop.

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It may be a long wait but
you must possess your soul in patience.

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And above all, no violence.

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It's late. Well, it should have
been here before now.

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Daresay it took longer being
out of the ordinary.

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The address, dear, remind me.

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Yes, sir, can I help?

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Argyll Street.
I'm looking for Argyll Street.

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There's a post office
round the corner. Try there.

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Mr. Green, we can do nothing
without a warrant.

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This is intolerable.

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Until we have some wretched
signature on a piece of paper,

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we can do nothing.

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Meanwhile these fiends can do
with her what they will.

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Are you certain that
you've told me every detail?

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Every detail, I promise.

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Then take this note to
Scotland Yard.

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They will understand
the urgency of it.

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And I am to wait there
for the warrant.

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You will not get it today.

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Some delay is inevitable.
A magistrate must be found.

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The process of the law can be
encouraged but not goaded.

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Tomorrow may be too late
for God's sake.

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Mr. Green, everything that can
be done will be done.

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Go.

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Tomorrow may indeed
be too late.

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I'm well aware of it.

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Arm yourself, Watson.

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We are as usual the irregulars
who must take our luck together

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as we have occasionally
done in the past.

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8:00 tomorrow morning
Brickston Cemetery.

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I fancy that you've been
misdirected, sir.

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Possibly if you try further
down the street.

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That will do.
We have no time to waste.

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You are Henry Peters,
late Major Albert Schlessinger

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veteran of the Boer War.

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Your further aliases I will not bore
you by repeating.

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And what is your name?

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Sherlock Holmes. My friend and
companion I think you know.

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The house will shortly be
under police observation

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until a warrant is prepared
authorizing a search of the premises.

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Your name does not frighten me,
Mr. Holmes. I have nothing to hide.

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What is your business?

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I'm looking for
the Lady Frances Carfax.

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I'm delighted to hear it.

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If anyone can find her,
I imagine you can.

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Perhaps you'd be so good
as to tell me when you do.

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I've a note against her
for nearly 100 pounds,

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and nothing to show for it
but a couple of trumpery pendants

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that the dealer would
hardly look at.

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The woman's a leech.

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How dare you, sir.

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You imposed upon us as a man
crippled in a military action.

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You are a fraud.

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Oh, it may not have been
a military action

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to satisfy your standards
of slaughter, Doctor,

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but it was enough for me.

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Hm-mm. I salute your powers
of improvisation, sir,

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and your effrontery,
but it will not do.

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Oh, I'm perfectly serious.
You find her, and I'm your debtor.

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I mean to go through this house
until I do.

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You have a warrant?

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This will serve until
a better one comes.

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Why, you're a common burglar.

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And my friend is
a dangerous ruffian.

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Together we mean to
go through your house.

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I'm in no position to stop you.

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Search where you will.
I have nothing to hide.

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Where is the coffin that you had
brought in to this house?

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That is none of your business.

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I repeat. Where?

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Is it not enough that you force
your way into my home,

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that you threaten me at gunpoint

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must you also now invade
the peace of the dead?

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Where?

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I shall not tell you.

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Hold him here, Watson.

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I don't believe you'd use that
on an unarmed man, Doctor,

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and in my condition.

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I was a soldier in India, sir.
I've shot nobler creatures than you.

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Lights, Watson! Lights!

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I smelled formaldehyde
and astringent.

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Thank God. It's not her.

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Get them out.

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You have violated the peace of
the dead. You will now leave.

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Who is she?

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Get them out.

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Her name is Rose Spender.

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Get them out!

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She is my wife's old nurse.

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She's been with
the family for half a century.

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She died two days ago. We are to
bury her tomorrow morning.

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Now, get out before
I ask the police.

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You have summoned to my home
to come in and throw you out.

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I've been considering
the problem, Holmes.

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It does seem to me that they could
not have murdered Lady Frances

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and thought to have disposed of
her body in that coffin.

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For they would then be faced
with burying the old lady.

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It may be that this burial
has no connection

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with Lady Frances' disappearance
after all.

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I mean she was, as you know,
the most-

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unpredictable creature.

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It may be that she had
second thoughts about Schlessinger.

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She may even have had some inkling
of the kind of man we-

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believe him to be and
removed herself from the house.

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He was, after all,
happy to let us search it.

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What do you think?

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What is your theory then?

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I have none.

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There are insufficient facts to
construct a theory.

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You think there's something
you've overlooked?

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It's late.

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And, it should have been
there before now.

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Daresay it took longer
being out of the ordinary.

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What has happened to any brains
that God has given me?

44:54.775 --> 44:55.900
Watson!

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Quick, man! It's life or death.

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A hundred chances on death
and one on life.

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Oh, God most mighty, holy,
most merciful savior,

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and our most worthy
judge eternal,

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suffer us not at our last hour
for any plains of death...

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And never continuous in one stage.
In the midst of life, we are in death.

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Of whom may we seek for succour
but of thee, oh, Lord,

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who for our sins art
justly displeased.

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Yet, oh, Lord, God, most holy...

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For as much as it hath pleased
almighty God of his great mercy

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to take unto himself the soul of
our dear sister here departed,

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we therefore commit
her body to the ground.

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Earth to earth

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ashes to ashes

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dust to dust
in sure and certain...

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Stop!

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Raise that coffin.

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What the devil do you mean
by this sacrilege?

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Murder, sir,

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Murder is what I mean.

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Why such a deep coffin
for such a small old lady?

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A sovereign to each of you

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if you can lift the lid off
that coffin in one minute.

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Watson.

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Stop or I'll shoot!

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It's chloroform.

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She's known literally
the terrors of the grave.

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God knows what this will
have done to her.

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I've failed.

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I have brought her back here
to the country of her childhood

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which is one of the most beautiful
on this planet.

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There has been
a great improvement as a result.

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A landscape so familiar and
so intimate to her

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will prompt in time
a full response I feel sure,

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as will the company of
friends and family

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who've all been most
kind and dutiful.

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Her poor brother, the Earl,
is beside himself

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with anger at the criminals

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and with mortification at
his having quarreled

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with Frances before
all this happened.

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Finally, please accept the enclosed
as a token of my gratitude

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for your saving of
my dear Frances, Mr. Holmes,

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and I look forward to our
entertainment of you and Dr. Watson

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in a happier future.

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I cannot accept it.

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I refuse to be rewarded
for fostering a tragedy.

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I've never suffered such a
complete eclipse of my faculties.

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Well, like any eclipse, Holmes,
it's only temporary.

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There's every hope of
a full recovery.

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I wonder...

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I wonder.