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[Assistant] No clue? asked Holmes, cocking his eye at the Colonel.


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[Assistant] Not as yet, but the affair is a petty one.


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[Assistant] One of our little country crimes, which must seem too small for your attention, Mr. Holmes, after this great international affair.


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[Assistant] My fancy not. The thieves ransacked the library and got very little for their pains. The whole place was turned upside down, drawers burst open,


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[Assistant] Presses ransacked, with the result that an odd volume of Pope's Homer, two plated candlesticks, an ivory letterweight, a small oak barometer, and a ball of twine are all that have vanished. What an extraordinary assortment, I exclaimed.


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[Assistant] Oh, the fellows evidently grabbed hold of everything they could get. Holmes grunted from the sofa.


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[Assistant] The county police ought to make something of that, said he. Why, it is surely obvious that— But I held up a warning finger.


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[Assistant] You are here for a rest, my dear fellow. For heaven's sake, don't get started on a new problem when your nerves are all in shreds.


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[Assistant] Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resignation towards the Colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels.


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[Assistant] It was destined, however, that all my professional caution should be wasted.


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[Assistant] For next morning the problem obtruded itself upon us in such a way that it was impossible to ignore it.


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[Assistant] And our country visit took a turn which neither of us could have anticipated.


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[Assistant] We were at breakfast when the Colonel's butler rushed in with all his propriety shaken out of him.


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[Assistant] Burglary! Tried the Colonel with his coffee cup in midair. Murder! The Colonel whistled.


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[Assistant] It was William the coachman. Shot through the art, sir, and never spoke again. Who shot him then? The burglar, sir.


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[Assistant] He was off like a shot and got clean away. He just broke in at the pantry window when William came on him and met his end in saving his master's property. What time?


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[Assistant] It was late last night, sir. Somewhere about twelve.


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[Assistant] Ah, then, we'll step over afterwards," said the Colonel, coolly settling down to his breakfast again.


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[Assistant] It's a baddish business," he added, when the butler had gone. He's our leading man about here, his old Cunningham, and a very decent fellow, too.


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[Assistant] He'll be cut up over this, for the man has been in his service for years, and was a good servant.


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[Assistant] It's evidently the same villains who broke into Acton's.


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[Assistant] It may prove the simplest matter in the world, but all the same at first glance this is just a little curious, is it not?


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[Assistant] A gang of burglars acting in the country might be expected to vary the scene of their operations, and not to crack two cribs in the same district within a few days. When you spoke last night of taking precautions,


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[Assistant] I remember that it passed through my mind that this was probably the last parish in England to which the thief or thieves would be likely to turn their attention, which shows that I have still much to learn.


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[Assistant] I fancy it's some local practitioner," said the Colonel. In that case, of course, Actons and Cunninghams are just the places you would go for, since they are far the largest of out here. And richest?


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[Assistant] Well, they ought to be, but they've had a lawsuit for some years which has sucked the blood out of both of them, I fancy.


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[Assistant] Old Acton has some claim on half of Cunningham's estate, and the lawyers have been at it with both hands.


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[Assistant] If it's a local villain, there should not be much difficulty in running him down," said Holmes with a yawn. All right, Watson, I don't intend to meddle. Inspector Forrester, sir," said the butler, throwing open the door.


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[Assistant] The official, a smart, keen-faced young fellow, stepped into the room.


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[Assistant] Good morning, Colonel, said he. I hope I don't intrude, but we hear that Mr Holmes of Baker Street is here.


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[Assistant] The fates are against you, Watson," said he, laughing. We were chatting about the matter when you came in, Inspector. Perhaps you can let us have a few details.


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[Assistant] As he leaned back in his chair in the familiar attitude I knew that the case was hopeless.


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[Assistant] We had no clue in the Acton affair, but here we have plenty to go on, and there's no doubt it is the same party in each case. The man was seen. Ah!


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[Assistant] Yes, sir. But he was off like a deer after the shot that killed poor William Kirwan was fired. Mr Cunningham saw him from the bedroom window, and Mr Alec Cunningham saw him from the back passage. It was quarter to twelve when the alarm broke out.


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[Assistant] Mr Cunningham had just got into bed, and Mr Alec was smoking a pipe in his dressing-gown.


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[Assistant] They both heard William, the coachman, calling for help. Mr Alec ran down to see what was the matter.


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[Assistant] The back door was open, and as he came to the foot of the stairs he saw two men wrestling together outside. One of them fired a shot.


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[Assistant] The other dropped, and the murderer rushed across the garden and over the hedge.


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[Assistant] Mr Cunningham, looking out of his bedroom, saw the fellow as he gained the road, but lost sight of him at once.


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[Assistant] Mr Alec stopped to see if he could help the dying man, and so the villain got clean away.


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[Assistant] Beyond the fact that he was a middle-sized man, and dressed in some dark stuff, we have no personal clue.


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[Assistant] But we're making energetic inquiries, and if he is a stranger we shall soon find him out.


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[Assistant] What was this William doing there? Did he say anything before he died?


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[Assistant] Not a word. He lives at the lodge with his mother, and as he was a very faithful fellow, we imagine that he walked up to the house with the intention of seeing that all was right there.


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[Assistant] Of course this acton business has put everyone on their guard. The robber must have just burst open the door.


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[Assistant] The lock has been forced when William came upon him.


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[Assistant] Did William say anything to his mother before going out?


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[Assistant] She's very old and deaf, and we can get no information from her.


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[Assistant] The shock has made her half-witted, but I understand that she was never very bright. There is one very important circumstance, however. Look at this!


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[Assistant] He took a small piece of torn paper from a notebook and spread it out upon his knee.


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[Assistant] This was found between the finger and thumb of the dead man.


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[Assistant] It appears to be a fragment torn from a larger sheet.


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[Assistant] You will observe that the hour mentioned upon it is the very time at which the poor fellow met his fate.


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[Assistant] You see that his murderer might have torn the rest of the sheet from him, or he might have taken this fragment from the murderer. It reads almost as though it were an appointment.


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[Assistant] Holmes took up the scrap of paper, a facsimile of which is here produced.


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[Assistant] Presuming that it is an appointment, continued the inspector, it is of course a conceivable theory that this William Kirwan, though he had the reputation of being an honest man, may have been in league with the thief. He may have met him there, may even have helped him to break in the door, and then they may have fallen out between themselves.


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[Assistant] This writing is of extraordinary interest," said Holmes, who had been examining it with intense concentration. These are much deeper waters than I had thought.


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[Assistant] As to the possibility of there being an understanding between the burglar and the servant, and this being a note of appointment from one to the other, is an ingenious and not entirely impossible supposition. But this writing opens up


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[Assistant] He sank his head into his hands again and remained for some minutes in the deepest thought.


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[Assistant] When he raised his face again, I was surprised to see that his cheek was tinged with colour, and his eyes as bright as before his illness. He sprang to his feet with all his old energy.


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[Assistant] I should like to have a quiet little glance into the details of this case.


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[Assistant] There is something in it which fascinates me extremely.


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[Assistant] If you will permit me, Colonel, I will leave my friend Watson and you, and I will step around with the inspector to test the truth of one or two little fancies of mine. I will be with you again in half an hour.


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[Assistant] An hour and a half had elapsed before the inspector returned alone.


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[Assistant] Mr Holmes is walking up and down in the field outside," said he. He wants us all four to go up to the house together. To Mr Cunningham's? Yes, sir. What for? The inspector shrugged his shoulders. I don't quite know, sir.


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[Assistant] Between ourselves, I think Mr Holmes had not quite got over his illness yet. He has been behaving very clearly, and is very much excited.


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[Assistant] I don't think you need alarm yourself," said I. I have usually found that there was method in his madness.


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[Assistant] Some folks might say there was madness in his method, must the inspector.


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[Assistant] He's all on fire to start, Colonel. So we'd best go out if you're ready.


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[Assistant] Watson, your country trip has been a distinct success. I've had a charming morning.


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[Assistant] You've been up to the scene of the crime, I understand, said the Colonel.


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[Assistant] Yes, the Inspector and I have made quite a little reconnaissance together. Any success?


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[Assistant] Well, we've seen some very interesting things. I'll tell you what we did as we walk.


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[Assistant] First of all, we saw the body of this unfortunate man. He certainly died from a revolver wound, as reported. Had you doubted it then?


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[Assistant] Oh, it is as well to test everything. Our inspection was not wasted. We then had an interview with Mr. Cunningham and his son, who were able to point out the exact spot where the murderer had broken through the garden hedge in his flight. That was of great interest. Naturally. Then we had a look at this poor fellow's mother.


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[Assistant] The conviction that the crime is a very peculiar one. Perhaps our visit now may do something to make it less obscure.


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[Assistant] I think that we are both agreed, Inspector, that the fragment of paper in the dead man's hand, bearing as it does the very hour of his death written upon it, is of extreme importance. It should give a clue, Mr. Iomes. It does give a clue.


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[Assistant] Whoever wrote that note was the man who brought William Kirwan out of his bed at that hour. But where is the rest of that sheet of paper?


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[Assistant] I examined the ground carefully in the hope of finding it," said the inspector. It was torn out of the dead man's hand.


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[Assistant] Why was someone so anxious to get possession of it? Because it incriminated him, and what would he do with it?


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[Assistant] Thrust it into his pocket, most likely, never noticing that a corner of it had been left in the grip of the corpse.


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[Assistant] If we could get the rest of that sheet, it is obvious that we should have gone a long way towards solving the mystery.


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[Assistant] Yes, but how can we get at the criminal's pocket before we catch the criminal? Well, well, it was worth thinking over.


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[Assistant] Then there is another obvious point. The note was sent to William.


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[Assistant] The man who wrote it could not have taken it, otherwise of course he might have delivered his own message by word of mouth.


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[Assistant] Who brought the note then, or did it come through the post? I have made inquiries, said the inspector.


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[Assistant] William received a letter by the afternoon post yesterday. The envelope was destroyed by him.


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[Assistant] Excellent, cried Holmes, clapping the inspector on the back.


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[Assistant] You've seen the postman. It is a pleasure to work with you. Well, here is the lodge, and if you will come up, Colonel, I will show you the scene of the crime.


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[Assistant] We passed the pretty cottage where the murdered man had lived, and walked up an oak-lined avenue to the fine old Queen Anne house, which bears the date of Malplaquet upon the lintel of the door.


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[Assistant] Holmes and the inspector led us round it until we came to the side gate, which is separated by a stretch of garden from the hedge which lines the road. A constable was standing at the kitchen door.


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[Assistant] Now it was on these stairs that young Mr Cunningham stood and saw the two men struggling just where we are.


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[Assistant] Old Mr Cunningham was at that window, the second on the left, and he saw the fellow get away just to the left of that bush. Then Mr Alec ran out and knelt beside the wounded man.


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[Assistant] The ground is very hard you see, and there are no marks to guide us.


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[Assistant] As he spoke, two men came down to the garden path from round the angle of the house.


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[Assistant] The one was an elderly man with a strong, deep-lined, heavy-eyed face. The other a dashing young fellow, whose bright smiling expression and showy dress were in strange contrast with the business which had brought us there.


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[Assistant] Still at it then?" said Heater Holmes. I thought you Londoners were never at fault. You don't seem to do so very quick after all.


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[Assistant] Ah, you must give us a little time, said Holmes good-humouredly. You'll want it, said young Alec Cunningham.


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[Assistant] We thought that if we could only find... Good heavens, Mr. Holmes. What is the matter?


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[Assistant] My poor friend's face had suddenly assumed the most dreadful expression.


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[Assistant] His eyes rolled upwards, his features writhed in agony, and with a suppressed groan he dropped on his face upon the ground.


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[Assistant] Horrified at the suddenness and severity of the attack, we carried him into the kitchen, where he lay back in a large chair and breathed heavily for some minutes.


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[Assistant] Finally, with a shame-faced apology for his weakness, he rose once more.


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[Assistant] Watson would tell you that I have only just recovered from a severe illness, he explained. I am liable to these sudden nervous attacks.


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[Assistant] Shall I send you home in my trap? asked old Cunningham.


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[Assistant] Well, since I'm here, there is one point on which I should like to feel sure. We can very easily verify it. What was it?


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[Assistant] Well, it seems to me that it is just possible that the arrival of this poor fellow William was not before, but after the entrance of the burglar into the house.


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[Assistant] You appear to take it for granted that although the door was forced, the robber never got in.


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[Assistant] I fancy that is quite obvious," said Mr. Cunningham gravely.


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[Assistant] Why, my son Alec had not yet gone to bed, and he would certainly have heard anyone moving about. Where was he sitting? I was smoking in my dressing-room. Which window is that? The last on the left, next to my father's.


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[Assistant] Both of your lamps were lit, of course. Undoubtedly.


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[Assistant] There are some very singular points here," said Holmes, smiling.


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[Assistant] Is it not extraordinary that a burglar—and a burglar who had had some previous experience—should deliberately break into a house at a time when he could see from the lights that two of the family were still afoot? He must have been a cool hand


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[Assistant] Well, of course, if the case were not an odd one, we should not have been driven to ask you for an explanation," said young Mr. Alec.


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[Assistant] But as to your ideas that the man has robbed the house before William tackled him, I think it a most absurd notion.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't we have found the place disarranged, and missed the things which he had taken?


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[Assistant] It depends on what the things were," said Holmes.


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[Assistant] You must remember that we are dealing with a burglar who is a very peculiar fellow, and who appears to work on lines of his own.


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[Assistant] Look, for example, at the queer lot of things which he took from actons. What was it? A ball of string, a letter weight, and I don't know what other odds and ends.


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[Assistant] In the first place," said Holmes, I should like you to offer a reward coming from yourself, for the officials may take a little time before they would agree upon the sum, and these things cannot be done too promptly. I have jotted down the form here.


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[Assistant] If you would not mind signing it, £50 was quite enough, I thought.


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[Assistant] I would willingly give you five hundred," said the JP, taking the slip of paper and the pencil which Holmes handed to him. This is not quite correct, however," he added, glancing over the document.


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[Assistant] You see, you begin. Whereas at about a quarter to one on Tuesday morning an attempt was made, and so on, it was at a quarter to twelve, as a matter of fact.


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[Assistant] I was pained at the mistake, for I knew how keenly Holmes would feel any slip of the kind.


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[Assistant] It was his speciality to be accurate as to fact, but his recent illness had shaken him.


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[Assistant] And this one little incident was enough to show me that he was still far from being himself.


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[Assistant] He was obviously embarrassed for an instant, while the inspector raised his eyebrows, and Alec Cunningham burst into a laugh.


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[Assistant] The old gentleman corrected the mistake, however, and handed the paper back to Holmes.


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[Assistant] Get it printed as soon as possible, he said. I think your idea is an excellent one.


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[Assistant] It really would be a good thing that we should all go over the house together, and make certain that this rather erratic burglar did not after all carry anything away with him.


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[Assistant] Before entering, Holmes made an examination of the door which had been forced.


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[Assistant] It was evident that a chisel or strong knife had been thrust in, and the lock forced back with it. We could see the marks in the wood where it had been pushed in. You don't use bars, then?" he asked. We have never found it necessary. You don't keep a dog? Yes, but he is chained on the other side of the house.


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[Assistant] When do your servants go to bed? About ten.


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[Assistant] I understand that William was usually in bed also at that hour. Yes.


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[Assistant] It is singular that on this particular night he should have been up.


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[Assistant] Now I should be very glad if you would have the kindness to show us over the house, Mr Cunningham.


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[Assistant] A stone-flagged passage with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house.


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[Assistant] It came out upon the landing opposite to a second, more ornamental stair, which came up from the front hall.


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[Assistant] Out of this landing open the drawing-room and several bedrooms, including those of Mr Cunningham and his son.


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[Assistant] Homes walk slowly, taking keen note of the architecture of the house.


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[Assistant] I could tell from his expression that he was on a hot scent.


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[Assistant] And yet I could not in the least imagine in what direction his inferences were leading him.


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[Assistant] My good sir, said Mr. Cunningham with some impatience.


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[Assistant] This is surely very unnecessary. That is my room at the end of the stairs, and my son's is the one beyond it.


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[Assistant] I leave it to your judgment whether it was possible for the thief to have come up here without disturbing us.


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[Assistant] You must try round and get on a fresh scent, I fancy," said the son, with a rather malicious smile.


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[Assistant] Still, I must ask you to humor me a little further.


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[Assistant] I should like, for example, to see how far the windows of the bedrooms command the front. This, I understand, is your son's room." He pushed open the door.


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[Assistant] And that, I presume, is the dressing-room in which he sat smoking when the alarm was given. Where does the window of that look out to?


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[Assistant] He stepped across the bedroom pushed open the door and glanced around the other chamber.


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[Assistant] I hope that you are satisfied now," said Mr. Cunningham-Tartley. Thank you. I think I have seen all that I wished.


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[Assistant] Then if it is really necessary we can go into my room. If it is not too much trouble.


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[Assistant] The JP shrugged his shoulders and led the way into his own chamber, which was a plainly furnished and commonplace room.


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[Assistant] As we moved across it in the direction of the window, Holmes fell back until he and I were the last of the group.


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[Assistant] Near the foot of the bed stood a dish of oranges and a carafe of water.


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[Assistant] As we passed it, Holmes, to my unutterable astonishment, leaned over in front of me and deliberately knocked the whole thing over.


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[Assistant] The glass smashed into a thousand pieces, and the fruit rolled about into every corner of the room.


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[Assistant] You've done it now, Watson," said he coolly. A pretty mess you've made of the carpet.


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[Assistant] I stooped in some confusion and began to pick up the fruit, understanding for some reason my companion desired me to take the blame upon myself.


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[Assistant] The others did the same, and set the table on its legs again.


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[Assistant] Hello!" cried the inspector. Where has he got to? Holmes had disappeared. Wait here an instant, said young Alec Cunningham. A fellow is off his head, in my opinion. Come with me, father, and see where he has got to.


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[Assistant] They rushed out of the room, leaving the inspector, the colonel, and me staring at each other.


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[Assistant] Upon my word, I'm inclined to agree with Master Alec," said the official.


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[Assistant] It may be the effect of his illness, but it seems to me that...


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[Assistant] His words were cut short by a sudden scream of, Help! Help! Murder!


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[Assistant] With a thrill, I recognized the voice of that of my friend. I rushed madly from the room onto the landing.


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[Assistant] The cries, which had sunk down into a hoarse inarticulate shouting, came from the room which we had first visited.


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[Assistant] I dashed in and on into the dressing room beyond.


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[Assistant] The two Cunninghams were bending over the prostrate figure of Sherlock Holmes, the younger clutching his throat with both hands, while the elder seemed to be twisting one of his wrists.


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[Assistant] In an instant the three of us had torn them away from him, and Holmes staggered to his feet, very pale and evidently greatly exhausted. "'Arrest these men, Inspector,' he gasped. "'On what charge?' "'That of murdering their coachman, William Curwen.' The Inspector stared about him in bewilderment.


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[Assistant] Oh, come now Mr. Holmes," said he at last, I'm sure you don't really mean to.


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[Assistant] Never certainly have I seen a plainer confession of guilt upon human countenances.


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[Assistant] The older man seemed numbed and dazed, with a heavy, sullen expression upon his strongly marked face.


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[Assistant] The sun, on the other hand, had dropped all that jaunty, dashing style which had characterised him, and the ferocity of a dangerous wild beast gleaned in his dark eyes and distorted his handsome features.


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[Assistant] I trust that this may all prove to be an absurd mistake.


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[Assistant] But you can see that, ah, would you drop it?


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[Assistant] He struck out with his hand, and a revolver which the younger man was in the act of cocking clattered down upon the floor.


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[Assistant] Keep that," said Holmes quietly, putting his foot upon it. You will find it useful at the trial. But this is what we really wanted. He held up a little crumpled piece of paper. A remainder of the sheet! cried the inspector. Precisely. And where was it? Where I was sure it must be. I'll make the whole matter clear to you presently.


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[Assistant] I think, Colonel, that you and Watson might return now, and I will be with you again in an hour at the furthest. The inspector and I must have a word with the prisoners, but you will certainly see me back at luncheon time.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes was as good as his word. For about one o'clock he rejoined us in the Colonel's smoking room.


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[Assistant] He was accompanied by a little elderly gentleman, who was introduced to me as the Mr Acton, whose house had been the scene of the original burglary.


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[Assistant] I wish Mr Acton to be present while I demonstrated this small matter to you," said Holmes, for it is natural that he should take a keen interest in the details.


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[Assistant] I am afraid, my dear Colonel, that you must regret the hour that you took in such a stormy petrol as I am.


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[Assistant] On the contrary, answered the Colonel warmly, I consider it the greatest privilege to have been permitted to study your methods of working.


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[Assistant] I confess that they quite surpass my expectations, and that I am utterly unable to account for your result. I have not yet seen the vestige of a clue.


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[Assistant] I am afraid that my explanation may disillusion you, but it has always been my habit to hide none of my methods, either from my friend Watson, or from anyone who might take an intelligent interest in them.


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[Assistant] But first, as I am rather shaken by the knocking about which I had in the dressing-room, I think that I shall help myself to a dash of your brandy, Colonel. My strength had been rather tired of late. I trust that you had no more of those nervous attacks?" Sherlock Holmes laughed heartily. "'Ha! we will come to that in its turn,' said he.


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[Assistant] I will lay an account of the case before you in its due order, showing you the various points which guided me in my decision.


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[Assistant] Pray interrupt me if there is any inference which is not perfectly clear to you.


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[Assistant] It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.


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[Assistant] Now, in this case, there was not the slightest doubt in my mind from the first, that the key of the whole matter must be looked for in the scrap of paper in the dead man's hand.


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[Assistant] Before going into this I would draw your attention to the fact that, if Alec Cunningham's narrative was correct, and if the assailant, after shooting William Kirwan, had instantly fled


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[Assistant] Then it obviously could not be he who tore the paper from the dead man's hand.


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[Assistant] But if it was not he, it must have been Alec Cunningham himself.


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[Assistant] For by the time that the old man had descended, several servants were upon the scene.


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[Assistant] The point is a simple one, but the inspector had overlooked it because he had started with the supposition that these county magnates had had nothing to do with the matter.


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[Assistant] Now I make a point of never having any prejudices, and of following docilely wherever fact may lead me. And so, in the very first stage of the investigation, I found myself looking a little askance at the part which had been played by Mr. Alec Cunningham.


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[Assistant] And now I made a very careful examination of the corner of paper which the inspector had submitted to us.


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[Assistant] It was at once clear to me that it formed part of a very remarkable document. Here it is.


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[Assistant] There cannot be the least doubt in the world that it has been written by two persons doing alternate words.


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[Assistant] When I draw your attention to the strong t's of at and to, and ask you to compare them with the weak ones of quarter and twelve, you will instantly recognise the fact.


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[Assistant] A very brief analysis of these four words would enable you to say with the utmost confidence that the learn and the maybe are written in the stronger hand, and that the what in the weaker.


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[Assistant] By Jove, it's as clear as day," cried the Colonel. Why on earth should two men write a letter in such a fashion?


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[Assistant] Obviously the business was a bad one, and one of the men who distrusted the other was determined that whatever was done, each should have an equal hand in it.


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[Assistant] Now of the two men it is clear that the one who wrote the at and to was the ringleader. How do you get at that?


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[Assistant] We might deduce it from the mere character of the one hand as compared with the other, but we have more assured reasons than that for supposing it.


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[Assistant] If you examine this scrap with attention, you will come to the conclusion that the man with the stronger hand wrote all his words first, leaving blanks for the other to fill up.


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[Assistant] These blanks were not always sufficient, and you can see that the second man had a squeeze to fit his quarter in between the at and the to, showing that the latter was already written.


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[Assistant] We come now however to a point which is of importance.


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[Assistant] You may not be aware that the deduction of a man's age from his writing is one which has been brought to considerable accuracy by experts.


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[Assistant] In normal cases one can place a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence.


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[Assistant] I say normal cases, because ill health and physical weakness reproduce the signs of old age, even when the invalid is a youth.


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[Assistant] In this case, looking at the bold, strong hand of the one, and the rather broken-backed appearance of the other, which still retains its legibility although the tees have begun to lose their crossing,


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[Assistant] There is a further point, however, which is subtler and of greater interest. There is something in common between these hands. They belong to men who are blood relatives.


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[Assistant] It may be most obvious to you in the Greek ease, but to me there are many small points which indicate the same thing.


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[Assistant] I have no doubt at all that a family mannerism can be traced in these two specimens of writing.


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[Assistant] I am only, of course, giving you the leading results now of my examination of the paper.


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[Assistant] There were twenty-three other deductions which would be of more interest to experts than to you.


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[Assistant] They all tend to deepen the impression upon my mind that the Cunninghams, father and son, had written this letter.


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[Assistant] Having got so far, my next step was of course to examine into the details of the crime, and to see how far they would help us.


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[Assistant] I went up to the house with the inspector and saw all that was to be seen.


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[Assistant] The wound upon the dead man was, as I was able to determine with absolute confidence, fired from a revolver at the distance of something over four yards. There was no powder blackening on the clothes.


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[Assistant] Evidently, therefore, Alec Cunningham had lied when he said that the two men were struggling when the shot was fired.


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[Assistant] Again, both father and son agreed as to the place where the man escaped into the road.


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[Assistant] At that point, however, as it happens, there is a broadish ditch, moist at the bottom, as there were no indications of boot marks about this ditch. I was absolutely sure, not only that the Cunninghams had again lied, but that there had never been any unknown man upon the scene at all.


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[Assistant] And now I have to consider the motive of this singular crime.


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[Assistant] To get at this, I endeavoured first of all to solve the reason of the original burglar at Mr Acton's.


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[Assistant] I understood from something which the Colonel told us that a lawsuit had been going on between you, Mr Acton, and the Cunninghams.


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[Assistant] Of course it instantly occurred to me that they had broken into your library with the intention of getting at some document which might be of importance in the case.


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[Assistant] Precisely so," said Mr. Acton. There can be no possible doubt as to their intentions. I have the clearest claim upon half of their present estate, and if they could have found a single paper, which fortunately was in the strong box of my solicitors, they would undoubtedly have crippled our case. There you are," said Holmes, smiling.


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[Assistant] It was a dangerous, reckless attempt in which I seemed to trace the influence of young Alec.


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[Assistant] Having found nothing, they tried to divert suspicion by making it appear to be an ordinary burglary, to which end they carried off whatever they could lay their hands upon.


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[Assistant] That is all clear enough. But there was much that was still obscure.


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[Assistant] What I wanted above all was to get the missing part of that note.


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[Assistant] I was certain that Alec had torn it out of the dead man's hand, and almost certain that he must have thrust it into the pocket of his dressing-gown. Where else could he have put it? The only question was whether it was still there.


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[Assistant] It was worth an effort to find out, and for that object we all went up to the house.


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[Assistant] The Cunninghams joined us, as you doubtless remember, outside the kitchen door.


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[Assistant] It was, of course, of the very first importance that they should not be reminded of the existence of this paper. Otherwise they would naturally destroy it without delay.


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[Assistant] The inspector was about to tell them the importance which we attached to it, when by the luckiest chance in the world I tumbled down in a sort of fit, and so changed the conversation.


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[Assistant] Good heavens! cried the Colonel, laughing. Do you mean to say all our sympathy was wasted and you're fit and in posture?


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[Assistant] Speaking professionally, it was admirably done, cried I, looking in amazement at this man who was forever confounding me with some new phase of his astuteness.


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[Assistant] It is an art which is often useful," said he. When I recovered I managed, by a device which had perhaps some little merit of ingenuity, to get old Cunningham to write the word twelve, so that I might compare it with the twelve upon the paper.


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[Assistant] We then went upstairs together, and having entered the room and seen the dressing gown hanging up behind the door, I contrived by upsetting a table to engage their attention for the moment, and slipped back to examine the pockets.


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[Assistant] I had hardly got the paper, however, which was as I had expected in one of them, when the two Cunninghams were on me, and would, I verily believe, have murdered me then and there, but for your prompt and friendly aid.


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[Assistant] As it is, I feel that young man's grip on my throat now, and the father has twisted my wrist round in the effort to get the paper out of my hand.


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[Assistant] They saw that I must know all about it, you see, and the sudden change from absolute security to complete despair made them perfectly desperate.


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[Assistant] I had a little talk with old Cunningham afterwards as to the motive of the crime.


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[Assistant] He was tractable enough, though his son was a perfect demon, ready to blow out his own or anybody else's brains if he could have got to his revolver.


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[Assistant] When Cunningham saw that the case against him was so strong he lost all heart, and made a clean breast of everything.


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[Assistant] It seems that William had secretly followed his two masters on the night when they made their raid upon Mr Acton's, and having thus got them into his power,


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[Assistant] Proceeded under threats of exposure to levy blackmail upon them.


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[Assistant] Mr Alec, however, was a dangerous man to play games of that sort with. It was a stroke of positive genius on his part to see in the burglary scare which was convulsing the countryside an opportunity of plausibly getting rid of the man whom he feared.


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[Assistant] William was decoyed up and shot, and had they only got the whole of the note, and paid a little more attention to detail in the accessories, it is very possible that suspicion might never have been aroused.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes placed a subjoined paper before us.


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[Assistant] If you will only come around to the East Gate it will very much surprise you and be of the greatest service to you, and also to Annie Morrison, but say nothing to anyone upon the matter.


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[Assistant] It is very much the sort of thing that I expected," said he.


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[Assistant] Of course, we do not yet know what the relations may have been between Alec Cunningham, William Kirwan, and Annie Morrison.


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[Assistant] The result shows that the trap was skilfully baited. I am sure that you cannot fail to be delighted with the traces of heredity shown in the P's and in the tails of the G's. The absence of the I-dots in the old man's writing is also more characteristic.


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[Assistant] I don't want anybody else feeling sorry for me. I can do that. Along with my parents. My dad still feels guilty about buying me that car.


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[Assistant] Especially when a nurse has to watch while I take a dump so she can wipe my bum. Or when doctors flip me around like I was a science doll.


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[Assistant] They keep the numbers away from me, but it doesn't take much research to find out I'm costing my parents almost a million dollars a year. Hoey.


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[Assistant] It would be sweet to chill out together and watch a movie like when you'd spend the night at my house. What do you want to watch? Uh, I think I'm in like a mellow Blade Runner mood. I always cry at the end. Plus you know I always wanted to have cool colored bangs like Pris. I know, you would look incredible with


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[Assistant] Max, it is so cool that you're here again. I'm glad you think so.


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[Assistant] Being with you made me feel like when we were little pirates, jumping and running through the forests again.


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[Assistant] Seriously, I need it. Uhm, my parents keep this wagon upstairs because they think I can't get to it. But you can, Max. Like a pirate, right?


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[Assistant] I'd like to check out some old pictures of us when we were kids. Please, my diary is like-


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[Assistant] He actually tried to give us a timeout. And you laughed at him. My dad would have banished me.


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[Assistant] I am Sun Wukong, king of the fruit and flower mountain. I should be the king of heaven too.


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[Assistant] I'm going to the Cloud Palace to tell the Jade Emperor to leave. If he doesn't, I'll never stop causing trouble!


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[Assistant] How did you get so powerful? A sage taught me secret formulas.


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[Assistant] I practiced them for many years. I am now equal to the Jade Emperor.


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[Assistant] No, said Wukong. I'm not leaving until I get to rule heaven.


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[Assistant] I can change into other animals, said Wukong. I can soar through the sky on clouds. I can do anything I want.


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[Assistant] That's easy. I can jump across entire oceans.


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[Assistant] I'm going to jump farther than you could ever imagine. When I return, I'll be the ruler of heaven!


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[Assistant] I'll go back now and tell Buddha to take the Jade Emperor away. Heaven is mine!


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[Assistant] How will I prove that I was here?


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[Assistant] I'll write a note on this pillar. Buddha can come here and check.


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[Assistant] How can I free you? There's a small piece of paper on top of this mountain.


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[Assistant] Yes, I am a monkey. And I am rather small, it's true. He removed the iron bar from his ear.


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[Assistant] That's ridiculous. We should have beaten them up.


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[Assistant] I won't cause any more trouble for the Jade Emperor.


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[Assistant] I'm hungry. I'll find a village and beg for some food for you.


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[Assistant] And we can't cross the river with that dragon in there. I'll try another plan.


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[Assistant] It's too late for that now. He won't come out of the water.


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[Assistant] Guan Yin was here. She turned the dragon into a horse. He's supposed to come with us.


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[Assistant] He tried to set the building you were in on fire!


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[Assistant] The rest of the building's burned. I used my magic for that too.


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[Assistant] I used a spell that protected only your building and the robe. The spell made the fire spread everywhere else though.


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[Assistant] Just bring us the robe so we can continue our journey to the west.


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[Assistant] In all the good times I find myself longing for change.


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[Assistant] I think we both learned a valuable lesson, Wukong. I will never show anyone the robe again.


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[Assistant] I know who the great king yellow wind is.


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[Assistant] He's a weasel spirit. Buddha asked me to keep an eye on him.


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[Assistant] I told the spirit he could live on that mountain if he behaved.


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[Assistant] It wasn't funny at all. Those beasts were going to attack me.


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[Assistant] It is too delicious and valuable. Let's eat it ourselves.


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[Assistant] How will I ever reach the western paradise with companions like you?


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[Assistant] It's bad enough that there are dangers along the journey.


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[Assistant] If you do, I'll recite the spell until your head explodes.


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[Assistant] Why don't you go find us some food? Woojing and I will wait here.


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[Assistant] My two companions are powerful spirits, your majesty.


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[Assistant] A young man turned the Tang monk into a tiger. The monk is locked in a cage now.


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[Assistant] I never should have told you to leave. Will you continue the journey with us?


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[Assistant] I tried to stop that demon from taking my mountains, but he was too powerful.


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[Assistant] I want to be as far from this mountain as I can by nightime.


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[Assistant] I sent him here to cause trouble for you.


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[Assistant] Buddha wanted to make sure you are all serious about reaching the western paradise. You fought well, Wukong.


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[Assistant] Wukong can't charge into the palace and attack the Daoist.


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[Assistant] People will think the monkey is evil, attacking a king for no reason.


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[Assistant] Don't be scared, Prince. We must tell you something.


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[Assistant] We're going to the western paradise to get scriptures from Buddha. What's going on?


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[Assistant] The man ruling the Black Rooster Kingdom is not really the king.


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[Assistant] That's wonderful, Wukong. Please, bring him back to life right away.


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[Assistant] You're supposed to be helping the Tang monk reach the western paradise.


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[Assistant] Don't touch anything. Just tell me why you're here.


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[Assistant] How dare you tell me to give you one thousand pills?


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[Assistant] I'm not giving you any pills. Now get out of here.


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[Assistant] He usually does. Hang in there, Juliet.


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[Assistant] I have in my pocket a manuscript," said Dr James Mortimer.


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[Assistant] Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery. How can you say that, sir?


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[Assistant] You have presented an inch or two of it to my examination all the time that you have been talking.


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[Assistant] It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so. You may possibly have read my little monograph upon the subject. I put that at 1730. The exact date is 1742. Dr. Mortimer drew it from his breast pocket.


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[Assistant] This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.


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[Assistant] I may say that I was his personal friend, as well as his medical attendant.


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[Assistant] He was a strong-minded man, sir, shrewd, practical, and as unimaginative as I am myself.


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[Assistant] Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.


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[Assistant] Holmes stretched out his hand for the manuscript and flattened it upon his knee.


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[Assistant] You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long S and the short.


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[Assistant] It is one of several indications which enabled me to fix the date.


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[Assistant] I looked over his shoulder at the yellow paper and the faded script. At the head was written Baskerville Hall, and below in large, scrawling figures, 1742. It appears to be a statement of some sort.


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[Assistant] Yes, it is a statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family.


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[Assistant] A most practical pressing matter which must be decided within 24 hours.


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[Assistant] But the manuscript is short and is intimately connected with the affair. With your permission I will read it to you


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[Assistant] Holmes leaned back in his chair, placed his fingertips together, and closed his eyes with an air of resignation.


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[Assistant] Dr Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light, and read in a high cracking voice the following curious old-world narrative.


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[Assistant] Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his,


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[Assistant] I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as this here set forth.


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[Assistant] And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy, but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed.


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[Assistant] Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.


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[Assistant] No then, that in the time of the Great Rebellion


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[Assistant] The history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention


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[Assistant] This manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name.


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[Assistant] Nor can it be again said that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.


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[Assistant] This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts.


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[Assistant] But there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour, which made his name a byword through the West.


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[Assistant] It chants that this Hugo came to love, if indeed so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name,


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[Assistant] The daughter of a yeoman who held lands near the Baskerville estate.


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[Assistant] But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.


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[Assistant] So it came to pass that one Michaelmas, this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden, her father and brothers, being from home, as he well knew.


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[Assistant] When they had brought her to the hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom.


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[Assistant] Now the poor lass, upstairs, was like to have her wits turned to the singing and shouting, and terrible oaths which came up to her from below. For they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.


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[Assistant] At last, in the stress of her fear, she did that which might have daunted the bravest,


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[Assistant] For by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered, and still covers, the south wall, she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three leagues betwixt the hall and her father's farm.


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[Assistant] It chanced that some little time later Hugo left his guests to carry food and drink with other worse things perchance to his captive.


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[Assistant] As it would seem, he became as one that hath a devil.


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[Assistant] For rushing down the stairs into the dining hall, he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenches flying before him, and he cried aloud before all the company that he would that very night render his body and soul to the powers of evil, if he might not overtake the wench.


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[Assistant] And while the revelers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked, or it may be more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.


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[Assistant] Whereat Hugo ran from the house, crying to his grooms that they should saddle his mare, and unkennel the pack, and giving the hounds a kerchief of the maids, he swung them to the line, and so off full cry in the moonlight over the moor.


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[Assistant] Now, for some space the revelers stood agape.


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[Assistant] Unable to understand all that had been done in such haste.


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[Assistant] But anon, their bemused wits awoke to the nature of the deed which was like to be done upon the moorlands.


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[Assistant] Everything was now in an uproar, some calling for their pistols, some for their horses, and some for another flask of wine.


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[Assistant] But at length some sense came back to their crazed minds, and the whole of them, thirteen in number, took course and started in pursuit.


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[Assistant] The moon shone clear above them, and they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she were to reach her own home.


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[Assistant] They had gone a mile or two when they passed one of the night shepherds upon the moorlands, and they cried to him to know if he had seen the hunt.


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[Assistant] And the man, as the story goes, was so crazed with fear that he could scarce speak.


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[Assistant] But at last he said that he had indeed seen the unhappy maiden with the hounds upon her track.


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[Assistant] But I have seen more than that," said he, for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.


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[Assistant] So the drunken squires cursed the shepherd and rode onward. But soon their skins turned cold.


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[Assistant] For there came a galloping across the moor, And the black mare, dabbled with white froth, Went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle.


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[Assistant] Then the revelers rode close together, for a great fear was on them, but they still followed over the moor, though each, had he been alone, would have been right glad to have turned his horse's head.


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[Assistant] Riding slowly in this fashion, they came at last upon the hounds.


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[Assistant] These though, known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goil, as we call it, upon the moor.


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[Assistant] More sober men as you may guess than when they started.


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[Assistant] The most of them would by no means advance, but three of them, the boldest, or it may be the most drunken, rode forward down the goil.


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[Assistant] Now it opened into a broad space in which stood two of those great stones, still to be seen there which were set by certain forgotten peoples in the days of old.


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[Assistant] The moon was shining bright upon the clearing.


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[Assistant] That of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil Roysterers,


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[Assistant] But it was that standing over Hugo and plucking at his throat


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[Assistant] There stood a foul thing, a great black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.


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[Assistant] And even as they looked, the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville, on which, as it turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them, the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life, still screaming across the moor.


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[Assistant] One, it is said, died that very night of what he had seen, and the other twain were but broken men for the rest of their days.


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[Assistant] Such is the tale, my sons, of the coming of the hound which is said to have plagued the family so sorely ever since.


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[Assistant] If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known has less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.


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[Assistant] Nor can it be denied that many of the family have been unhappy in their deaths, which have been sudden, bloody, and mysterious.


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[Assistant] Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in holy writ.


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[Assistant] To that providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution, to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.


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[Assistant] This from Hugo Baskerville to his sons Roger and John.


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[Assistant] With instructions that they say nothing thereof to their sister Elizabeth.


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[Assistant] When Dr Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative, he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr Sherlock Holmes.


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[Assistant] Dr Mortimer drew a folded newspaper out of his pocket.


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[Assistant] Now Mr. Holmes, we will give you something a little more recent.


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[Assistant] This is the Devon County Chronicle of May 14th of this year.


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[Assistant] It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, which occurred a few days before that date.


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[Assistant] My friend leaned a little forward, and his expression became intent. Our visitor readjusted his glasses and began.


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[Assistant] The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candidate for Mid Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.


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[Assistant] Though Sir Charles had resided at Baskerville Hall for a comparatively short period, his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.


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[Assistant] In these days of Nouveau-Riche it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which had fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.


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[Assistant] Sir Charles, as is well known, made large sums of money in South African speculation.


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[Assistant] More wise than those who go on until the wheel turns against them, he realized his gains and returned to England with them.


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[Assistant] It is only two years since he took up his residence at Baskerville Hall, and it is common talk how large were those schemes of reconstruction and improvement which have been interrupted by his death.


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[Assistant] Being himself childless, it was his openly expressed desire that the whole countryside should within his own lifetime profit by his good fortune, and many will have personal reasons for bewailing his untimely end.


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[Assistant] His generous donations to local and county charities have been frequently chronicled in these columns.


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[Assistant] The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest.


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[Assistant] But at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise.


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[Assistant] There is no reason whatever to suspect foul play or to imagine that death could be from any but natural causes.


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[Assistant] Sir Charles was a widower and a man who may be said to have been in some ways of an eccentric habit of mind.


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[Assistant] In spite of his considerable wealth he was simple in his personal tastes and his indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a married couple named Barrymore.


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[Assistant] The husband acting as butler and the wife as housekeeper.


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[Assistant] Their evidence corroborated by that of several friends tends to show that Sir Charles' health has for some time been impaired.


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[Assistant] And points especially to some affection of the heart, manifesting itself in changes of colour, breathlessness and acute attacks of nervous depression.


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[Assistant] Dr. James Mortimer, the friend and medical attendant of the deceased has given evidence to the same effect. The facts of the case are simple.


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[Assistant] Sir Charles Baskerville was in the habit every night before going to bed of walking down the famous Yew Alley of Baskerville Hall.


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[Assistant] The evidence of Barrymore's shows that this had been his custom.


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[Assistant] On the 4th of May Sir Charles had declared his intention of starting next day for London, and had ordered Barrymore to prepare his luggage.


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[Assistant] That night he went out as usual for his nocturnal walk.


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[Assistant] At twelve o'clock Barrymore, finding the hall door still open, became alarmed, and lighting a lantern went in search of his master.


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[Assistant] The day had been wet, and Sir Charles's footmarks were easily traced down the alley.


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[Assistant] Halfway down this walk there is a gate which leads out onto the moor.


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[Assistant] There were indications that Sir Charles had stood for some little time here.


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[Assistant] He then proceeded down the alley, and it was at the far end of it that his body was discovered.


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[Assistant] One fact which has not been explained is the statement of Barrymore that his master's footprints altered their character from the time that he passed the moor gate.


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[Assistant] That he appeared from thence onward to have been walking upon his toes


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[Assistant] One Murphy, a gypsy horse dealer, was on the moor at no great distance at the time.


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[Assistant] But he appears by his own confession to have been the worst for drink.


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[Assistant] He declares that he heard cries, but is unable to state from what direction they came.


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[Assistant] No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles's person.


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[Assistant] And though the doctor's evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion,


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[Assistant] So great that Dr Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him.


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[Assistant] It was explained that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnea and death from cardiac exhaustion.


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[Assistant] This explanation was borne out by the post-mortem examination which showed long-standing organic disease


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[Assistant] And the coroner's jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.


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[Assistant] For it is obviously of the utmost importance that Sir Charles's heir should settle at the hall and continue the good work which has been so sadly interrupted.


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[Assistant] Had the prosaic finding of the coroner not finally put an end to the romantic stories which have been whispered in connection with the affair, it might have been difficult to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall.


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[Assistant] And inquiries are being instituted with a view to informing him of his good fortune.


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[Assistant] Dr Mortimer refolded his paper and replaced it in his pocket.


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[Assistant] Those are the public facts, Mr Holmes, in connection with the death of Sir Charles Baskerville.


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[Assistant] I must thank you," said Sherlock Holmes, for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest.


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[Assistant] I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.


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[Assistant] He leaned back, put his fingertips together, and assumed his most impassive and judicial expression.


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[Assistant] In doing so," said Dr Mortimer, who had begun to show signs of some strong emotion,


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[Assistant] My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to endorse a popular superstition.


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[Assistant] I had the further motive that Baskerville Hall, as the paper says, would certainly remain untenanted if anything were done to increase its already rather grim reputation.


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[Assistant] For both these reasons I thought that I was justified in telling rather less than I knew


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[Assistant] And those who live near each other are thrown very much together.


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[Assistant] For this reason I saw a good deal of Sir Charles Baskerville.


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[Assistant] With the exception of Mr. Franklin of Lafter Hall and Mr. Stapleton the naturalist, there are no other men of education within many miles.


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[Assistant] Sir Charles was a retiring man, but the chance of his illness brought us together, and a community of interest in science kept us so.


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[Assistant] He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we had spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushmen and the Hottentot.


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[Assistant] Within the last few months it became increasingly plain to me that Sir Charles's nervous system was strained to the breaking point.


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[Assistant] He had taken this legend which I have read you exceedingly to heart.


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[Assistant] So much so that although he would walk in his own grounds, nothing would induce him to go out upon the moor at night.


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[Assistant] Incredible as it may appear to you, Mr. Holmes, he was honestly convinced that a dreadful fate overhung his family.


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[Assistant] And certainly the records which he was able to give of his ancestors were not encouraging.


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[Assistant] The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him, and on more than one occasion he has asked me whether I had on my medical journeys at night ever seen any strange creature or heard the baying of a hound.


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[Assistant] The latter question he put to me several times, and always with a voice which vibrated with excitement.


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[Assistant] I can well remember driving up to his house in the evening some three weeks before the fatal event. He chanced to be at his hall door.


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[Assistant] I had descended from my gig and was standing in front of him


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[Assistant] When I saw his eyes fix themselves over my shoulder and stare past me with an expression of the most dreadful horror.


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[Assistant] I whisked round, and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.


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[Assistant] So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it.


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[Assistant] That he confided to my keeping that narrative which I read to you when I first came in.


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[Assistant] I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed.


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[Assistant] But I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial, and that his excitement had no justification.


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[Assistant] I wasn't my advice that Sir Charles was about to go to London.


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[Assistant] His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived


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[Assistant] However chimerical the cause of it might be was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.


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[Assistant] I thought that a few months among the distractions of town would send him back a new man.


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[Assistant] Mr. Stapleton, a mutual friend who was much concerned at his state of health, was of the same opinion.


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[Assistant] At the last instant came this terrible catastrophe.


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[Assistant] On the night of Sir Charles's death Barrymore the butler, who made the discovery, sent Perkins the groom on horseback to me, and as I was sitting up late I was able to reach Baskerville Hall within an hour of the event.


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[Assistant] I checked and corroborated all the facts which were mentioned at the inquest


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[Assistant] I followed the footsteps down the yew alley. I saw the spot at the moor gate where he seemed to have waited.


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[Assistant] I remark the change in the shape of the prints after that point.


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[Assistant] I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel.


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[Assistant] And finally I carefully examined the body which had not been touched until my arrival.


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[Assistant] Sir Charles lay on his face, his arms out, his fingers dug into the ground, and his features convulsed with some strong emotion to such an extent that I could hardly have sworn to his identity. There was certainly no physical injury of any kind


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[Assistant] But one false statement was made by Barrymore at the inquest.


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[Assistant] Dr Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered, Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound.


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[Assistant] This is like that eclipse. You're right. Look at the outline.


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[Assistant] You could've been a major bitch to me when I got hit with that paint. And I deserved it.


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[Assistant] Mr. Jefferson asked me because he knows I don't have a lot of money even with my job and scholarship. I'm not cool enough for this school.


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[Assistant] Hell no. This is homework, not a party. I'll text you if I spy him. Good luck!


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[Assistant] When I had lunch with Lorne Michaels that day at the Beverly Hills Hotel, he said it would be fun to have you in a skit.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. We are so excited to be in New York City tonight at one of our favorite restaurants with our best friends in the world. And these are our ride or dies. People that have been with us for decades and we're all here to support Kim.


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[Assistant] I don't know how these SNL people stay up every night until 3 a.m. Do you know that I got into bed, fell asleep, and at 358


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[Assistant] Kim texted me and said I just finished at SNL. Talk about a grilling schedule. I thought our schedule was a lot.


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[Assistant] We still have a few hours to kill before we get to SNL and I have the perfect idea of what to do in the meantime.


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[Assistant] Okay, so here's the deal. When I was a flight attendant, I had- Wait, hold on. Hold on. Okay.


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[Assistant] Kim Kardashian West is requesting you to come into her room ASAP, you and Khloé? Okay, coming. Can we bring cameras? Ah, hold on, ask. Can they bring cameras or no? Yeah, bring the cameras.


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[Assistant] You went all the way to LA to get something for Kim? You were something else. What did you get?


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[Assistant] Well, you can negotiate my next deal. How about that?


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[Assistant] Everybody gets lost in a big city, and I have a north star. And that would be Bergdorf Goodman. So when I get lost, I just look for Bergdorfs. Here's the difference though, when I lived here.


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[Assistant] Life changes so much. I walked the streets of New York 45 years ago.


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[Assistant] I went to flight attendant school and then they assigned me to New York.


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[Assistant] Robert and O.J. met me at the airport because they had just flown in from Montreal where they watched Bruce Jenner win the gold medal. Because O.J. was doing the commentary. How about that? **** story. Isn't that wild?


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[Assistant] It's this building. This looks really familiar. Or I think it's up here, babe.


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[Assistant] I'm lost. Of course I'm lost. It was 45 years ago. And New York City has changed. So what street are we on now? 57th? Well no. It hasn't changed actually. Not one damn building has changed. I think it's up here babe. Was this it?


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[Assistant] Hi. Sorry. This looks familiar. And I was on the third floor. It's this building. Ah. There it is, babe.


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[Assistant] This is really an amazing moment for me to reflect on.


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[Assistant] And here I am today. My daughter is going to host the most iconic show in New York. And it's been, huh, what a ride.


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[Assistant] So, I'm glad that I had two seconds to talk to you. So here's the deal. So I got a call today from Travis and he said he wanted my advice and I said, what's up? And he said, well, Courtney's fertility health.


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[Assistant] All of a sudden he said, I wanna talk to you because now we have all of these eggs.


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[Assistant] And the doctor wants Courtney to have the egg retrieval on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Our entire family is planning the surprise proposal for Courtney in Santa Barbara. And now we find out that she might have this egg retrieval on the exact same day. I mean, what are the odds? He goes, do you think she'll be able to come to Montecito?


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'm sitting here with Chloe. Hi Trav.


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[Assistant] And so I was telling her the update about the egg retrieval.


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[Assistant] Like if you had to cook and we were in the middle of COVID.


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[Assistant] Peanut butter and jelly, that's not, that's spreading stuff around on a piece of bread.


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[Assistant] And it's bringing me to tears. I can't help it. I'm a crier. What can I say?


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[Assistant] I have had so much anxiety over this location, this date, everything that's happening, and I'm just so relieved that everything's organized, settled, we have a date, we have a plan, we know where we're going, and we know when.


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[Assistant] So I just heard from Travis, and him and Courtney are on their way back from New York, and they don't have to do the egg retrieval until Tuesday, so we're all set for Sunday. We're golden!


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[Assistant] Okay, so I think we're all set, but can I tell you my biggest fear right now? Yeah. Is that we're all gonna run into them on the freeway.


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[Assistant] Hey, uhm, are you guys driving? Yeah. Is Kylie driving her car? Yeah, why?


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[Assistant] You know, there's a follicle here, but it looks old. Very unlikely to get a mature egg.


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[Assistant] Hmm, more changes. Autumn changes are everywhere.


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[Assistant] Slow default here towards the spawn. All this util over and over. Cycle it back. Like the death said, you said they don't have the duelist. They have to go in on this util or a contact play. So you're gonna see a lot of teamwork here within the strategies they put up. A little teamwork to get a quick peek on oxy there as they both swing out and insert.


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[Assistant] RGLmeister just at long for now. Mid push to see if anybody else is lurking around the defensive side for C9 here.


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[Assistant] Sheriff there for Oxy, hopefully able to fire back now that he's healed up.


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[Assistant] C9 playing it slow, ready to just absorb MIBR here, and they know it's not going to be explosive on the site.


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[Assistant] So there's a little bit of time to get this util prepped and start firing back as Moose finds one straight down off a boiler in mid.


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[Assistant] Almost weird seeing Rooney without a Sheriff, honestly. Two ghost kills there, Bulldog picked up from the Fall of Vanity. After he had a nice 3k himself, so all Dwarves are building really nice on Rooney and Vanity here. Ooh! Little turret nutmeg there. Very nicely done. Extra obstacle.


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[Assistant] Probably hard to see at first glance too, so you get a quick moment on your opponent as they are peaking in the first place. Alright.


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[Assistant] I feel like we should expect to see a lot of those insert strats and then they move a little bit more. It's not just a death ball here. Because they don't have a lot of knowledge and control on the map, they have to be clearing spaces or sticking together quite a bit here.


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[Assistant] People getting incredibly comfortable with the Bulldog lately. We're just seeing a lot of these purchases stay, have an impact. Upgrade now coming in from C9 comfortably onto MIBR. And I like this draft from MIBR. Usually where you'd see a Harbor wall go up, they put the Sage wall, right? Just to push forward a bit. I like that movement from them.


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[Assistant] Oh no. All right. They're just, they're vibing like that and it's just the bonus. We'll see what MIBR is in for here. Uhm, a few buys on MIBR's side. It's going to be so tough for them to work the map. If C9's feeling this confident, they're going to be pushing on their angles and covering each other for these plays. Already pushed up to Nestea on pipes. Very good ping too.


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[Assistant] You see Cloud9 is considering MIBR is playing this leave the breadcrumbs strat every so often to get info. Now the hit on the B, easy rotation for C9 to call and read this is the words from Moose that are going to pull everybody over.


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[Assistant] You saw the slight, just maybe a second and a half between the flash and the dizzy. I mean, it probably wouldn't have changed too much with how C9 was set up, but those things do matter. You can turn the flash, get back around for the dizzy. You're supposed to nullify that by throwing them both at the same time. So five rounds possibly now we're four.


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[Assistant] Crazy stuff. They're feeling so good. And he stayed with the sheriff and low buys throughout the other rounds too. So really building up the economy of the team. I mean, Moose has 7,000, 8,000 as well. MIBR has a very big mountain to climb to tear through this economy as well as these sites. They haven't found an answer yet and they still don't have one.


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[Assistant] Oxy and the crew have so much control knowing MIBR basically have to walk and crawl everywhere.


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[Assistant] We got some ultimates on deck. Thrash is there right now. Mazeen's K.O. No command is going to be coming up. They have some options here if they can focus the orbs.


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[Assistant] But it's the map control, right? We just talked about it. Not being able to play fast elevation into A. C9 doesn't have to worry about much. They're not sweating about these hits. They're just waiting for MIBO to walk in as we would expect this team to play contact or right off that util they have.


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[Assistant] But they're just looking for C9 and I don't think they have a clue of how they're trying or how they are defending right now and how they're moving against MIBR on the backside of the map.


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[Assistant] Alright, Rooney up the gut with the Hunter's Fury. Does not find anything.


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[Assistant] We're still not getting word from MIBR just yet. Could be possible towards mid, at least for Moose to see, but that's something MIBR has to think about. Show yourself in a few places. Let C9 know you're interested in areas they'll have to still cover. They'll have to put their, their members.


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[Assistant] To guard that area, and that's how you might be able to find a soft site. We still get FRZ slowly moving through mid here, and this could be the kingpin of it if he starts to hear rotations, but C9's anchored. They're not moving.


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[Assistant] The MIBR is gonna get the soft site and we'll see if the rotation can be picking up big enough from C9 here.


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[Assistant] Of the robe after the wall comes up and goes for the fight still on the exit. Incredible stuff. C9 are already here after that vanity delay to hit MIBR. So no, it was not enough just to have somebody mid just to have that first poke towards A. C9 still recuperate, recover the round.


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[Assistant] Crazy stuff so far. The ultimate's here by MABR, if they can crash the site. Viper's pit goes down.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of C9 utility that can counter that too with Sova coming back in here. Orbs grabbed, getting things back online and we go back to MIBR death ball is working the map did not work.


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[Assistant] There it is. It took a few ultimates. It took a bit more. They do go back to a B hit for this one, but they get that round. If we remember back to, I believe it was G2, it was a 13-9 in favor of G2. But yeah, MIBR was there. They were getting rounds. They were still fighting with this same composition.


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[Assistant] So they played towards A. Quick dizzies, quick hits. This doesn't mean it can't end B. That's just where they felt comfortable on the side of MIBR. But this thrash may lock them into A.


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[Assistant] Really nice there to switch it up after three strong B rounds to have that comfortable of an A hit. It's going to come out with a call, timeout not from C9.


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[Assistant] Yeah, an MIBR to avoid Oxy. The faster they hit a site and get rooted in the site, it's harder for Oxy to get on the lines that are going to find the shots to retake that site. Nice little position here.


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[Assistant] See, this actually played quite a bit if a gecko is to come out and throw Dizzy there. It kind of, it rings, but it doesn't necessarily hit the jet if they're on a specific spot of yellow. So a neat little spot to play and avoid that util first hit. There you go.


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[Assistant] Nice though, there's gotta be a consolation prize for that. That was cool. Give him the spider ring or something, I don't know. Seven to three. A little tricky play on the wall boost. But yea, no dizzy to have to fend off just the shots here of Oxy and Vanity. I've already been having a fantastic game.


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[Assistant] So just a repeat of a few rounds ago. The quick dizzy to gain this first portion of pipes.


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[Assistant] A little further back this time, they let MIBR have the site without losing anybody, having all the UTIL operator picked up for Oxy there and C9 stayed off losing another round on that. MIBR, like we said,


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[Assistant] Well, one thing for certain is Oxy's having, uh,


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[Assistant] And he was coming to the birthday parties and the family events and all the holiday events and she never had a serious boyfriend that would ever get in the way of that. Now with a husband that changes the whole story.


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[Assistant] Wow guys, thank you. What are we talking about? You guys, I've never felt better when you did your cleanse than after my cleanse.


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[Assistant] But guess what? You would figure it out! Did you lose any weight? I did lose five pounds, but that wasn't my goal. The goal is...


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[Assistant] It removes all the toxins and it gives you like a clean egg. And then I did a yoni steam.


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[Assistant] I don't want my vagina to go through that. No. It's so good for your vagina. You put like roses and stuff and you're like steaming your vagina with roses. Like what is more luxurious?


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[Assistant] It feels really good to me to do this kind of process. Doing it naturally.


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[Assistant] We did all these healthy things and we made love and we made a baby. So now that we feel really healthy, we are going to try naturally and take a big break from IVF. Well, whatever your journey you're on, Courtney, we support you and literally, there'll be a lot of grandkids.


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[Assistant] This will be the golden egg. So who wants to do a cleanse? Not me. I would try it. Your life would be changed. Alright, I gotta go. I'm not sure about the vagina steaming, but I'll do it all. Oh, I love a good vagina steam. And you're gonna love it.


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[Assistant] I don't need to look. No. Want a chocolate covered gummy bear?


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[Assistant] I feel like can't we just get back to just like being normal? I'm gonna go to mom's offices tomorrow if you wanna come with me just to hang out. Why not? What else are we doing?


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[Assistant] Have you talked to Scott lately? He's being such a baby about Courtney and Travis. You know? Don't you think, Courtney? I think we baby most of the people in our lives.


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[Assistant] I feel like we baby everyone at this point. So moving forward, whatever relationship I'm in, I just won't allow that energy. And like everyone that enters my life should just be the biggest asset.


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[Assistant] Thank you. It was perfect. I was down the street doing Pancha Karma. Oh, at Suriya?


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[Assistant] What does that say? I know. Gwyneth Paltrow has a similar healthy lifestyle and we are both in the wellness space and so I'm thinking about doing this collaboration between Poosh and Goop, which is Gwyneth Paltrow's health and wellness brand. I'm on a journey. I love it. Do you have a destination in mind?


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[Assistant] This year I've been really focusing on growing the business. Doing this collab with Poosh and Goop is definitely a step in that direction. Like...


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[Assistant] This fridge makes me so happy. It makes me so happy. Just like to walk by. I know.


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[Assistant] Cute. God, this just looks so organized and amazing. Right?


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[Assistant] And Mason goes, you know, can you drop me off at Travis's studio?


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[Assistant] And he was like, it's so cool. And he was telling North like, it has, they have these bikes and it's just like so fun. And his tune has totally changed like since the engagement. And I heard him say to North, he was like, you know,