B9E1 - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Book 9, Part 1, Episode 1 - Sherlock Holmes Complete Audiobook Collection

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Section 1 of the casebook of Sherlock.
Holmes by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle.
This ligaments recording may be distributed and adapted freely
for any purpose, recording by Ruth Golding, the adventure of
the illustrious client. It can't hurt.
Now was mr. Sherlock Holmes is comment when

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for the 10th time in as many years I asked his leave to
reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I
obtained permission to put on record.
What was in some ways? The Supreme moment of my friends
career both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath.

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It was over a smoke in the pleasant, lassitude of the
drying room that I have found him less reticent, and more
human than anywhere else. On the Upper Floor of the
Northumberland Avenue establishment.
There is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by
side. And it was on these that we lay
upon September, the third 1902 the day when my narrative

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begins. I had asked him whether anything
was stirring and for answer, he had shot his long thin nervous
arm out of the sheets which enveloped him and had drawn an
envelope from the inside pocket of the coat.
Which hung beside him. It may be some fussy
self-important fool. It may be a matter of life or

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death. Said he as he handed me the
note. I know no more than this message
tells me. It was from the Carlton club,
and dated the evening before. This is what I read.
So James de Maria presents his compliments to mr.
Sherlock Holmes, and will call upon him at 4:30 tomorrow.

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So James begs to say that the matter upon, which he desires to
consult. Mr. Holmes is very delicate and
also very important. He trusts there for that.
Mr. Holmes will make every effort to Grant this Interview
and that he will confirm it overthe telephone to the Carlton
Club. I need not say that.

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I have confirmed it. Watson said Holmes, as I
returned the paper. Do you know anything of this
man? And Amory?
Only that this name is a household word in society.
Well, I can tell you a little more than that.
He has rather a reputation for arranging delicate matters,

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which are to be kept out of the papers.
You may remember his negotiations with Sir George
Lewis over the Hannaford will case.
He is a man of the world with a natural turn for diplomacy.
I am bound therefore to hope that it is not a false scent and

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that he has some real need for our assistance.
Ah, well if you'll be so good Watson.
I shall be honored. Then you have the our 4:30 until
then we can put the matter out of our heads.
I was living in my own rooms in Queen Anne Street at the time,

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but I was round at Baker Street before the time named Shark to
the half hour Colonel, Sir. James de Murray was announced,
it is hardly necessary to describe him.
For many will remember that, large.
Bluff honest personality. That broad clean-shaven face and
above all that Pleasant mellow voice frankness shown from his

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gray, Irish eyes. And Good Humor playground.
His mobile smiling. Lips.
His Lucent Top Hat. His dark frock-coat, indeed
every detail from the Pearl pin in the black, satin cravat to
the lavender stats, over the varnish, choose spoke of the
meticulous care in dress for which he was famous.

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The big masterful Aristocrat dominated, the little room.
Of course, I was prepared to find dr.
Watson. He remarked, with a courteous
bar. His collaboration may be very
necessary for, we are dealing onthis occasion.
Mr. Holmes with a man to whom violence is familiar and who

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will literally stick at nothing.I should say that.
There is no more dangerous man in Europe.
I have had several opponents to whom that flattering term has
been applied said Holmes with a smile, but don't you smoke.
Then? You will excuse me.
If I liked my pipe. If your man is more dangerous

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than the late professor Moriarty, or than the living,
Colonel Sebastian Moran, then heis indeed worth meeting.
May I ask his name? Have you ever heard of Baron
gruner? You mean the Austrian murderer?
Colonel de Murray threw up his kid gloved, hand with a laugh.

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There is no getting past. You mr.
Holmes. Wonderful.
So you have already sized him upas a murderer.
It is my business to follow the details of Continental crime.
Who could possibly have read what happened at Prague and have
any doubts as to the man's guilt.

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It was a purely technical legal point.
The suspicious death of a witness that saved him.
I and assure that he killed his wife.
When the so-called accident happened in this plugin pass, as
if I had seen him do it. I knew also that he had come to
England and had a presentment that sooner or later.

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He would find me some work to do.
Well, what has Baron gruner beenup to?
I presume it is not this old tragedy, which has come up
again. Now I guess more serious than
that. To Revenge crime is important
but to prevent it is more. So it is a terrible thing.

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Mr. Holmes to see a dreadful event, an atrocious situation,
preparing itself before your eyes to clearly understand
whether it will lead. And yet to be utterly unable to
have at it can a human being be placed in a more trying
position? Perhaps not then you will

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sympathize with the client in whose interests.
I'm acting. I did not understand that.
You are merely an intermediary, who is the principal?
Mr. Holmes, I must beg you not to press that question.
It is important that I should beable to assure him that his
honored name has been in no way dragged into the matter.

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His motives are to the last degree honorable and chivalrous,
but he prefers to remain unknown.
I need not say that your fees will be assured and that you
will be given a perfectly free hand.
Surely the actual name of your client is immaterial.

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I am sorry, said, Holmes. I am accustomed to have mystery
at one end of my cases. But to have it at both.
Ends is too confusing. I fear, Sir, James that I must
decline to act. Our visitor was greatly

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Disturbed. His large sensitive face was
darkened with emotion and disappointment, you hardly
realize the effect of your own action.
Mr. Holmes said, he you place mein a most serious dilemma for I
am perfectly certain that you would be proud to take over the
case. If I could give you the facts

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and yet a promise, forbids me, from revealing them all.
May I at least lay all that I can before you?
By all means so long as it is understood that I commit myself
to nothing. That is understood in the first
place. You have no doubt heard of

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General de merville de merville of Kaiba, theme.
Yes. I have heard of him.
He has a daughter Violet. De merville Young Rich,
beautiful accomplish a Wonder Woman in every way it is.
This Daughter. This lovely innocent girl whom

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we are endeavoring to save from the clutches of a fiend.
Baron gruner, has some hold overher.
Then the strongest of all holds where a woman is concerned, the
hold of love. The fellow is, as you may have
heard extraordinarily handsome with a Most Fascinating manner.

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A gentle voice. And that air of romance and
mystery, which means so much to a woman.
He is said to have the whole sexat his mercy and to have Aid,
ample use of the fact, but how came such a man to meet a lady
of the standing of Miss Violet to Marvel.

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It was on a Mediterranean yachting Voyage.
The company though? Select paid their own passages.
No doubt, the promoters hardly realized the Barons true
character until it was too late.The villain attached himself to
the lady and with such effect that he has completely and
absolutely won her heart. To say that she loves him

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horribly. Expresses it she dotes upon him.
She is obsessed by him outside of him.
There is nothing on Earth. She will not hear one word
against him. Everything has been done to cure
her of her Madness but in vain to sum up, she proposes to marry

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him next month. As she is of age and has a will
of iron. It is hard to know.
How to prevent her? Does she know about the Austrian
episode? The cunning devil has told her
every unsavory public Scandal ofhis past life, but always in

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such a way, as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr.
She absolutely accept his version and will listen to no
other. Dear me, but surely you have
inadvertently. Let out the name of your client.
It is no doubt General de merville.

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Visitor fidgeted in his chair. I could deceive You by saying so
mr. Holmes, but it would not be
true. De merville is a Broken Man.
The strong Soldier has been, utterly demoralized by this
incident. He has lost the nerve which
never failed him on the battlefield and has become a

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week doddering old man, utterly incapable of contending with a
brilliant forceful Rascal like Austrian my client.
However, is an old friend, one who has known the general
intimately for many years and taken a paternal interest in
this young girl. Since she wore short frocks.

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He cannot see this tragedy consummated without some attempt
to stop it. There is nothing in which
Scotland Yard can act. It was his own suggestion that
you should be called in. But it was as I have said on the
express stipulation that he should not be personally

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involved in the matter. I have no doubt.
Mr. Holmes, with your great Powers.
You could easily trace my clientback through me.
But I must ask you as a point ofhonor to refrain from doing so.
And not to break in upon his incognito.
Helms gave a Whimsical smile. I think I may safely promise

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that said he I may add that yourproblem interests me and that I
shall be prepared to look into it.
How shall I keep in touch with you?
The Carlton Club will find me? But in case of emergency, there
is a private telephone call, XX,31.

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Holmes, noted it down and sat still smiling with the open
memorandum-book upon his knee. The Baron's present address,
please Vernon Lodge near Kingston.
It is a large house. He has been fortunate in some
rather shady speculations and isa rich man, which naturally

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makes him a more dangerous antagonist.
Is he at home present? Yes.
Apart from what you have told me.
Can you give me any further information about the man?
He has expensive tastes. He is a horse fancier for a

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short time. He had played Polo at
hurlingham. But then this praga forgot
noised about and he had to leave, he collects books and
pictures. He has a man with a considerable
artistic side to his nature. He is, I believe a recognized
Authority upon Chinese pottery and has written a book upon the
subject. A complex mind said, hello.

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All great criminals have that myold friend.
Charlie piece was a violin virtuoso.
When right was no mean artist. I could quote many more.
Well, so James, you will inform your client that I am turning my
mind upon Baron gruner. I can say no more.

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I have some sources of information of my own and I dare
say, we may find some means of opening the matter up.
When our visitor had left us, Holmes, sat so long in deep
thought that it seemed to me that he had forgotten my
presence at last. However, he came briskly back to

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Earth. Well, Watson, any views?
He asked, I should think you hadbetter.
See the young lady herself. My dear Watson.
If her poor old broken, father cannot move her.
How shall I? Stranger Prevail and yet there

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is something in the suggestion if all else fails, but I think
we must begin from a different angle.
I rather fancy that Shin will Johnson might be a help.
I have not had occasion to mention shanell, Johnson in
these Memoirs because I have seldom drawn, my cases from the

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latter phases of my friends career.
During the first years for Century.
He became a valuable assistant Johnson.
I grieve to say made his name first as a very dangerous
villain and served two terms at Parkhurst.
Finally. He repented and Allied himself

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to Holmes acting as his In the huge criminal underworld of
London and obtaining information, which often proved
to be a vital importance. Add Johnson been an arc of the
police. He would soon have been exposed
but as he dealt with cases, which never came directly into
the courts, his activities were never realized by his

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companions. With the glamour of his two
convictions upon him. He had the entree of every
nightclub, Das Haus, and gambling Den in the town and his
quick, observation and active. Brain made him an ideal agent
for gaining information. It was to him that Sherlock
Holmes, now proposed to term. It was not possible for me to

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follow the immediate steps taken.
By my friend for, I had some pressing professional business
of my own but I met him by appointment that evening at
Simpsons. We're sitting at a small table
in the front window and looking down at the rushing stream of
Life in The Strand. He told me something of what had
passed. Johnson is on the prowl said he,

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he may pick up some garbage in the darker.
Recesses of the Underworld for it is down there amid, the black
roots of crime that we must huntfor this man secrets.
Bad. If the lady will not accept what
is already known? Why should any fresh discovery

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of yours? Turn her from her purpose.
Who knows? What sun' Woman's heart and mind
are insoluble. Puzzles to the mail murder,
might be condoned or explained and yet some smaller offense.
My tranquil Baron gruner remarked to me.

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He remarked to you. Oh, to be sure.
I had not told you of my plans. Well, Watson, I love to come to
close grips with my man. I like to meet him eye-to-eye
and read for myself that stuff that he is made of, when I had

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given Johnson his instructions. I took a cab out to Kingston and
found the baron in a most affable mood.
Did he recognize you? There was no difficulty about
that for. I simply sent in my card.
He is an excellent antagonist. Cool.

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As ice silky voiced and soothing, that's one of your
fashionable, consultants and poisonous as a cobra.
He has breeding in him. A real arastoo, Kratts of crime
with a superficial suggestion ofafternoon tea and all the

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cruelty of the Grave behind it. Yes, I am glad to have had my
attention called to Baron adelbert to gruner, ears.
Say he was affable. A purring cat who thinks his his
prospective mice. Some people's affability is more

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deadly than the violence, of course ourselves.
His greeting was characteristic.I rather thought I should see
you sooner or later. Mr. Holmes said he you have been
engaged. No doubt.
By General de merville to Endeavor to stop my marriage

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with his daughter. Violet.
That is. So is it not I acquiesced.
My dear man said he, you will only ruin your own Val deserved
reputation. It is not a case energy.
Can't possibly succeed. You will have ballon work to say

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nothing of incurring some danger.
Let me very strongly. Advise you to draw off at once.
It is curious. I answered but that was the
theory advice which I had intended to give you.
I have a respect for your brainsBaron and the little which I

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have seen of your personality has not lessened.
Let me put it to you as man to man.
No one wants to rake up your past and make you unduly
uncomfortable. It is over and you are now in
smooth Waters. But if you persist in this

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marriage, you will raise up a swarm of powerful enemies who
will never leave you alone untilthey have made England too hot
to hold you. Is The Game worth it?
Surely you would be wiser. If you left the lady alone.
It would not be pleasant for you.

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If these facts of your past werebrought to her notice.
The baron has little wax tips ofhair under his nose, like the
short hunt, any of an insect, these quivered with Amusement as
he listened and he finally brokeinto a gentle chuckle.

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Excuse my amusement. Mr. Holmes said he, but it is, I
really funny to see you time to play a hand with no cards in it.
I don't think. Anyone could do it better, but
it is a rather pathetic gold. The same, not a color card
there. Mr. Holmes, nothing but the

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smallest of the small so you think so.
I know let me make the thing clear to you.
For my own hand is so strong that I can afford to show it.
I have been fortunate enough to have in the entire affection of

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this lady. This was given to me in spite of
the fact that I told her very clearly of all the unhappy
incidents in my past life. I also told her that certain
vika done, designing Parsons. I hope you recognize yourself

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would come to her and tell her these things.
And dive on how to treat them. You have heard of posthypnotic
suggestion. Mr. Holmes value.
We'll see how it works for man of personality can use
hypnotism, without any vulgar passes or tomfoolery.

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So, she is idea for you. And I have no doubt would give
you an appointment for. She is quite amenable to her
father's real. We'll save only in the one
little matter. Well, Watson, there seemed to be

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no more to say. So, I took my leave with, as
much, cold dignity as I could summon, but as I had my hand on
the door handle, he is stopped me by the way.
Mr. Holmes said he did, you knowLaBarre the French agent.

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Yes. Said I Do you know what befell
him? I heard that he was beaten by
some Apaches in the more marked our district and crippled for
Life. Clyde told Mr. Holmes, by a
curious coincidence. He had been inquiring into my

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Affairs, only a week before. Don't do it.
Mr. Holmes. It's not a lucky thing to do
several. I found that out.
My last verse to you is go your own way.

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And let me go mine. Goodbye.
So there you are. What?
You are up to date. Now fli seems dangerous.
My too dangerous. I disregard the blusterer, but

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this is the sort of man who says, rather less than he means.
My steel interfere. Does it really matter if he
marries a girl? Considering the two undoubtedly
murdered his last wife. I should say.
It mattered very much. Besides the client.

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Well, well, we need not discuss that when you have finished your
coffee you had best. Come home with me for the
Blythe. Shin.
Well, we'll be there with his report.
We found him sure enough a huge course, red-faced scorbutic, man
with a pair of vivid black eyes,which were the only external

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sign of the very cunning mind within it seems that he had
dived down into what was peculiarly his kingdom and
beside him on the city was a brand, which he had brought up
in the shape of a slim flame, like, young woman with a pale
intense face. Useful and yet, so worn with sin

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and sorrow, that one read the terrible years, which had left
their leprous Mark upon her. This is Miss.
Kitty. Winter said Shin.
Will Johnson waving his fat handas an introduction.
Wash a do know. Well there, she'll speak for
herself. Put my hand right on her.

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Mr. Holmes, within an hour of your message.
I'm easy to find said the young woman.
He'll London gets me every time.Same address for Paul quiche in
well. We're all nights poke you and I
but by cripes there is another ought to be down in our lower

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hell and we if there was any justice in the world.
That is the man you are after mr.
Holmes Holmes smiled. I gather we have your good
wishes miss winter. If I can help to put him where
he belongs. I'm yours to the rattle said,
our visitor with Fierce energy. There was an City of hatred in

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her white set face and her blazing eyes such as woman
seldom and man, never can attain.
You needn't go into my past. Mr. Holmes.
That's neither here nor there. But what I am adelbert gruner,
made me if I could pull him down.

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She clutched frantically with her hands into the air.
Oh, if I could only pull him into the pit where he is pushed
so many, you know, how the matter stands.
Pookie shin hwal has been telling me he's after some
other, poor fool and wants to marry her this time.

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You want to stop it. Well, you surely know enough
about this devil to prevent any decent girl in her senses
wanting to be in the same Parishwith him.
She is not in her senses. She is madly in love.
She has been told all about him.She cares.
Nothing cold about the murder. Yes, hello.

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Gymnasts. Have enough.
She puts them all down as Slanders.
Couldn't you lay proofs before our silly eyes?
Well, can you help us do? So?
I know I proved myself. If I stood before her and told
her how he used me. Would you do this?

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What I would I not. Well, it might be worth trying,
but he has told him most of his sins and had pardoned from her
and I understand she will not reopen the question.
I'll I didn't tell her all set miss winter.
I caught a glimpse of one or Murders besides the one that

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made such a fuss, he would speakof someone in his velvet way and
then look at me with a steady eye and say he died within a
month. He wasn't hot air either, but I
took little notice you seem. I loved him myself.
At that time. Whatever.

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He did went with me. Same as with this poor fool.
There was just one thing it shook me.
Yes, by cripes. If it had not been for his
poisonous lying time, that explains and Sue's out of left
him that very night. It's a bookie ass.
A brown leather book with a lockand his arms in gold on the

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outside. I think he was a bit drunk that
night, or he would not have shown it to me.
What was it? Then I tell you mr.
Holmes, this man collects women and takes a pride in his
collection as some men collect moths, all butterflies.

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He had it all in that book. Snapshot photographs names,
details, everything about them. It was a beastly book, A book.
No, man, even if he had come from the gutter, could have put
together. But it was adelbert crooners
book all the same. Souls.
I have ruined. He could have put that on the

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outside if he'd been so minded. However, that's neither here.
Nor there for the book would notserve you and if it would, you
can't get it. Where is it?
How can I tell you where it is? Now?
It's more than a year since I left him.
I know where he kept it. Then he's a precise tidy, cat of

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a man, in many of his way. So maybe it is still in the
pigeon hole of the old bureau inthe understudy.
Do you know his house? I've been in the study said,
Holmes, have you though? You haven't been slow on the
job. If you only started this
morning, maybe dear Adalbert hasmet his match.

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This time. The outer study is the one with
the Chinese Crockery in it. Big glass cupboard between the
windows then behind this desk isthe door that leads to the inner
study a small room where he keeps papers and things.
Is he not afraid of burglars? Adelbert is now coward.

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His worst enemy. Couldn't say that of him.
He can look after himself. There's a burglar alarm at
night. Besides what is there for a
burglar? Unless they got away with all
this fancy Crockery now? Good said, Shin hwal Johnson
with the decided voice of the expert?
Now, fence, once stuff of that sort that you can either melt no

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sale. Quite so said Holmes.
Well Nam is winter. If you would call here tomorrow
evening at 5. I would consider in the
meanwhile, whether your suggestion of seeing this lady.
Personally may not be arranged. I am exceedingly obliged to you

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for your cooperation. I need not say that my clients
will consider liberally. None of that.
Mr. Holmes. Cried the young woman.
I'm not out for money. Let me see this man in the mud.
And I've got all I've worked forin the mud with my foot, on his
curse, it face. That's my price.

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I'm with you tomorrow or any other day.
So long as you are on his track.Palkia can tell you always where
to find me. I did not see Holmes again,
until the following evening. When we dined once more at our
strand restaurant. He Shrugged his shoulders, when
I asked him. What lucky had had in his
interview. Then he told the story which I

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would repeat in this way, his hard drive statement, need some
little editing, to soften it, into the terms of real life.
There was no difficulty at all about the appointment set.
Homes for the girl glories and showing abject filial obedience
in all secondary things in an attempt to atone for her

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flagrant breach of it in her engagement.
The general phoned, that all wasready, and the fiery, Ms. W
turned up according to schedule.So that at 5:30 a cab, deposited
us outside 104 Berkeley Square, where the old Soldier resides.

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One of those awful gray. London castles, which would make
a church seem frivolous. A footman showed us into a great
yellow. Curtain drawing room and there
was the lady awaiting us to Muirpale self-contained as
inflexible and remote has a snowimage on a mountain.

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I don't quite know how to make aclear to you Watson.
Perhaps you may meet her before we're through and you can use
your own gift of words. She is beautiful, but with the
Ethereal other world, beauty of some fanatic whose thoughts are
set on high. I have seen such faces in the

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pictures of the Old Masters of the Middle Ages.
How a beast man? Could have laid his vile Paws
upon such a being of the Beyond.I cannot imagine you may have
noticed how extremes called who each other the spirit Georgia,
the animal, the caveman to the angel.

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You never saw a worse case than this.
She knew what we had come for. Of course, that villain had lost
no time in poisoning. Her mind against us, Miss
Winters. Advent rather amazed her, I
think, but she waved as into ourrespective chairs like a

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reverend, Abbas receiving two rather leprous men, Dickens.
If your head is inclined to swell my dear Watson, take a
course of Miss Violette de merville.
Well, sir, said she in a voice like the wind from an iceberg.
Your name is familiar to me. You have called, as I understand

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to malign my fiance Baron gruner.
It is only by my father's request that I see you at all
and I warn you in advance that anything you can say could not
possibly have the slightest effect upon my mind.
I was sorry for her Watson. I thought of her for the moment

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as I would have thought of a daughter of my own.
I am not often eloquent. I use my head not my heart, but
I really did plead with her withall the warmth of words that I
could find in my nature. I pictured to her the awful

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position of the woman who only wakes to a man's character after
she is his wife. A woman who has to submit to be
caressed by bloody hands and lecherous lips.
I spared her. Nothing, the shame, the fear,
the agony, the hopelessness of it all, all my hot words could

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not bring one tinge of color to those Ivory cheeks or one gleam
of emotion, to those abstracted eyes.
I thought of what the right. Go ahead said about a post
hypnotic influence one, could really believe that she was
living above the Earth in some ecstatic dream yet.

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There was nothing indefinite in her replies.
I have listened to you is patience.
Mr. Holmes said she the effect upon my mind is exactly as
predicted. I am aware that adelbert that my
fiance has had a stormy life in which he has incurred, bitter

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hatreds and most unjust aspersions.
You are only the last of a series who have brought their
Slanders before me, possibly youmean?
Well, So I learned that you are a paid agent, who would have
been equally willing to act for the barren as against him.

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But in any case, I wish you to understand once for all that, I
love him and that he loves me. And that the opinion of all the
world is no more to me than the Twitter of those birds outside
the window. If his Noble Nature has ever for
an instant Fallen. It may be that I have been

(38:24):
specially sent to raise it to it.
True and lofty level. I am not clear.
Yeah, she turned eyes upon my companion.
Who this young lady? Maybe I was about to answer when
the girl broke in, like a whirlwind.
If ever, you saw a flame and Iceface to face.

(38:46):
It was those two women. I'll tell you who I am.
She cried. Bringing out of her chair, her
mouth all twisted with passion. I am his last mistress.
I am one of a hundred that he is, tempted and used and ruined
and thrown into the refuse Heap as he will.

(39:07):
You also your refuse Heap is more likely to be a grave and
maybe that's the best. I tell you, you foolish woman if
you marry this man, you'll be the death of you.
It may Be a broken heart or it may be a broken neck, but he'll
have you one way or the other. He, it's not out of love for

(39:30):
you. I'm speaking.
I don't care. A tinker's curse, whether you
live or die. It's out of hate for him and to
spite him and to get back on himfor what he did to me, but it's
all the same and you needn't. Look at me like that.
My fine lady /. You may be lower than I am
before. You are through with it.

(39:53):
I should prefer not to discuss. Such matters said Miss de
merville coldly. Let me say, once for all that, I
am aware of three passages in myfiancé's life, in which he
became entangled with Designing Women.
And that I am assured of his hearty repentance for any evil

(40:16):
that he may have done three passages.
Screamed. My companion, you fool.
You are not terrible fool. Mr. Helms, I beg that you will
bring this interview to an end. Set the ice say voice.
I have a paid, my father's wish in seeing you.

(40:39):
But I am not compelled to listento the ravings of this person
with an oath miss winter, dartedforward.
And if I had not caught her wrist, she would have clutched.
This maddening Woman by the hair.
I dragged her towards the door. I was lucky to get her back into
the cab without a public scene for.

(41:00):
She was beside herself with ragein her cold way.
I felt pretty Furious myself. Watson for there was something
indescribably annoying in the calm aloofness and supreme self
Compass ants of the woman whom we were trying to save.

(41:22):
So now once again, you know exactly how is Stand.
And it is clear that I must plan, some fresh opening move
for this Gambit won't work. I'll keep in touch with your
Watson for it is more than likely that you will have your
part to play. So it is just possible that the

(41:46):
next move May lie with them rather than with us.
And it did there blow fell or his blow rather for never could
I believe that the lady was privy to it?
I think I could show you the very Paving Stone upon which I

(42:07):
stood. When my eyes fell upon the
placard and a Pang of horror passed through my very Soul.
It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross station where
a one-legged newsvendor displayed his evening papers.
The date was just two days afterthe last conversation.
They're black upon yellow. Was the terrible news sheet

(42:32):
murderous attack, upon Sherlock Holmes.
End of part, 1 of The Adventure of the illustrious client.

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