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[Assistant] So I've shown you two ways of installing a package. Now I want to show you the third way.


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[Assistant] Which you might come across if you're looking at the installation.


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[Assistant] So notice here, in order to install Flask, they're using pip install flask.


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[Assistant] So pip is something that allows us to install Python packages from PyPy.


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[Assistant] So any package that you find on pypy.org, you can install using pip.


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[Assistant] And what we have to do is to type in the name that you see right here.


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[Assistant] For example, if we want to install Flask, then it's pip install and it's the capital F for Flask. So we can copy that into our clipboard. And if we go to the terminal tab at the bottom, we can paste that instruction in here and hit enter. Now it should have successfully installed Flask.


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[Assistant] And once I dismiss that, you can see my errors go away.


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[Assistant] So all three methods work. I personally prefer the red light bulb just because it's much quicker. It's just two clicks rather than typing a lot of code.


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[Assistant] Now once we've installed Flask, we can go ahead and add some space to get rid of all the warnings from PyCharm.


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[Assistant] Now, as soon as I run the project, you can see it tells me the process was finished with exit code zero, which means everything was successful, but where's my server and where's my website?


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[Assistant] So let's go back to the quick start to see what we actually have to do in order to set up our server.


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[Assistant] So to run our Flask application, we're going to firstly need to export a environment variable.


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[Assistant] So in previous lessons, we've talked about environment variables, but basically this is going to tell the Flask framework what is the name of the file that contains our server. So in our case, as well as in the quick start, the name of that file is hello.py.


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[Assistant] So we basically have to point to that file to get Flas to be able to recognize it and to use it as the server.


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[Assistant] Space, and then we're going to put in the name of the environment variable, which is flask underscore app.


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[Assistant] And it's all caps and then with no spaces, we've got a equal sign.


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[Assistant] And then the name of our file, which is hello.py.


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[Assistant] So now when I hit enter, that's going to add that environment variable under the name that Flask is expecting, which is flask.app.


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[Assistant] Now as it mentions in the quick start, if you're on Windows, the keyword is not export, but instead it's set.


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[Assistant] So again, inside your terminal down here, you're going to type set, and then you're going to put in the name of that environment variable, which was flask underscore app, and then with no space equals, and it's our hello.py.


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[Assistant] And once you hit enter, it should give you the prompt again, indicating that everything went smoothly.


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[Assistant] Now, once we've done that, the next step is to simply use the Flask command called run.


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[Assistant] And when I hit enter, you'll see that it's created my server. So it's serving up the Flask app that I've created in hello.py.


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[Assistant] And we get a warning telling us that this is a development server and telling us that if you want to actually launch it as a product, don't use this development server.


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[Assistant] There's a few steps you have to carry out if you actually wanted to make this production ready and ready for the internet and customers.


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[Assistant] But in our case we are developing, so this is perfect and it tells us


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[Assistant] So when you're trying to get hold of a website on the internet, then you have to point towards the IP address of that particular webpage. But because we've created our server locally and it's being served on our own computer,


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[Assistant] Then this is basically the local address of that website.


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[Assistant] Now a neat thing about PyCharm is if I simply just click on this link, then it's going to launch my website in my browser.


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[Assistant] And you can see right up here we've got hello world showing up.


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[Assistant] Which is the same as what we've got here in this method.


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[Assistant] So that proves that we've successfully managed to create our very first web server using Flask and it's able to serve up our very first Flask website.


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[Assistant] Now, if you go ahead and open up the Chrome developer tools and you go to elements, you can see that what we wrote here, which is just a string,


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[Assistant] Was actually converted by Flask into full HTML. It's got the HTML tag. It's got the head tag. It's got the body tag. And we didn't have to do any of this. We just told.


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[Assistant] Flask what we wanted to be returned onto the page when the user goes to the home page, which is just the web address plus a forward slash.


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[Assistant] Now the very last thing to remember is once we're done with our server, because it's still ongoing, it's still waiting for a client to hit up this website.


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[Assistant] We have to get it to stop waiting so we can quit by holding down control and then pressing C.


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[Assistant] And you can see this takes us back to our prompt where we've got our name and our project.


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[Assistant] Now, if you don't stop it and you try to run two Flask applications to the same address, then the second one is simply not going to run.


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[Assistant] So just be aware that once you're done with your server, hit control C to quit.


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[Assistant] Now in the next lesson, I want to talk a little bit more about the commands that you can use in the terminal.


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[Assistant] Because this is called the command line and just as here, we use the command line to run our Flask application, to export our environment variables. We can also do other things like create folders, create files, move files around.


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[Assistant] It's actually a very, very powerful way of interacting with our computer. That's what we're going to do in the next lesson. So for all of that and more, I'll see you there.


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[Assistant] English Singsing. Kids Vocabulary.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I think we have Cedric the Entertainer, Blueface, and uh,


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[Assistant] I think that speaks on your character too, your persistence, right? Cause at that point, it's so easy to just throw in the towel, but you just kept showing up.


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[Assistant] After the new year, keeping fitness goals can be challenged to keep up. You may know that FitBot is an easy and affordable way to keep you motivated and keep you working towards your goals.


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[Assistant] The app switches up your exercises to avoid overtraining or burnout while keeping your workout fresh and fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it, it was, it sounds exactly the same with me. At least sounds like, you know, rookie year. You just kind of just sit there and just shut up and just try to soak everything in. No.


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[Assistant] Do you think social media kinda makes it harder for those type of stories now and wrestling in that type of way?


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[Assistant] What was your favorite match that you've done?


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[Assistant] He just threw him off. I threw him off. Can you put that up? When he threw him off.


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[Assistant] So when you threw them off, like, are you all talking? Like, do you tell them?


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[Assistant] Wow, so what is it like working on your A&E biography?


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[Assistant] With your kids, uh, them growing up, how was it that their dad, obviously they look at you as, as dad, right? But probably growing up, they had to have kids coming up like, oh my God, your dad's the undertaker, how is that?


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[Assistant] The Daguerrean Process, invented by a French painter named Louis Daguerre around 1830.


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[Assistant] Pretty soon I'll be bonding with Victoria at the Vortex Club. I think you're better off reading Chiclet. Good point. Now if you'll excuse me.


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[Assistant] How did you like class today? I don't remember. I guess I don't care about much of anything today.


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[Assistant] Uh, why do you care? Why are you even asking me? You never talk, just zone out with your camera.


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[Assistant] That was truly sad. Thanks for your concern, Max Caufield. By the way, Juliet Watson.


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[Assistant] I'm flattered. I didn't even think you knew my name at all. Uh, of course I do. Thanks.


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[Assistant] She saw the text, and Zachary won't answer his phone. Once Dana admits it, she can go. Straight to hell.


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[Assistant] You're like the Blackwell Ninja. Now let's see what Zack has to say about Victoria. You set me free.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, welcome to day 55 of 100 days of code. Today we've got yet another jam packed day for you because we're going to be diving deeper into web development with Flask and along the way we're going to be learning some new concepts as well.


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[Assistant] Including how to render HTML on your websites that you serve up using Flask. And in addition, how to get hold of and parse the URL that the user typed in.


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[Assistant] Finally, we're also going to be looking into advanced decorators. So decorators where we can pass in inputs as positional and keyword arguments. And we're going to be doing some exercises around that.


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[Assistant] But what all of this knowledge is going to culminate into is a guess the number website.


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[Assistant] When we go to the home route, so just a single slash afterwards, it asks us to guess a number between 0 and 9.


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[Assistant] And then if we type in a guess into the path, let's say we decide to guess the number three. It tells us too low, try again.


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[Assistant] So this is HTML with styling with an H1 as well as a GIF being rendered. Now, what if we try too high?


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[Assistant] Oh, we also get a GIF. And then finally, if we land onto the correct number,


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[Assistant] Then we get a scene that tells us we found the correct number.


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[Assistant] So that's the goal. Once you're ready, head over to the next lesson and let's get started.


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[Assistant] Ooh, pink goo. I see why everybody brings their own soap. Hello, gorgeous. You wish, Max. You just look like a snoop.


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[Assistant] Zack is really careless. Doesn't he know what happens when I'm around?


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[Assistant] More like luck of nature. Come on, my power failed trying to rescue Kate. Maybe I'm just stumbling back and forth in time. For what reason?


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[Assistant] I'd like to do something good for my school in Arcadia Bay. I can't even submit my photo to represent. I just don't want to be rejected.


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[Assistant] Check out Mad Max, ready to fucking thrash. I'm so hardcore.


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[Assistant] I better not go in there. David might be in bed. Ew.


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[Assistant] Now the car looks ready to roll. This is a better hobby for David than surveillance.


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[Assistant] You okay, Alyssa? Immature assholes. Sorry, Max. I'm not feeling social right now.


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[Assistant] Why hello again, Alyssa. Okay, Max. That's twice you've saved me from a projectile weapon. Are you my guardian angel?


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[Assistant] Blackwell has a surplus of assholes. Oh by the way, Warren said you borrowed his epic film Flash Drive? I didn't know you were a sci-fi geek like us. What's your favorite?


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[Assistant] You and Warren do know your sci-fi. Be careful, you might make Brooke jealous.


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[Assistant] Hey Max, did you check out Kate's hot video yet?


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[Assistant] Because it's fucking hilarious. Church girl gone wild.


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[Assistant] Check her out and tell me what she's like. Do you believe everything you see?


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[Assistant] Hey Kate. How are you doing? I'm here. Thanks again for standing up for me yesterday. I needed that.


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[Assistant] Anytime. That guy has issues. Doesn't everybody here?


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[Assistant] By the way, Max, do you still have my copy of the October country?


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[Assistant] Well, he's a total paranoid ass. He thinks I'm part of a vortex club. Yeah, right.


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[Assistant] It's a long story. I'm still trying to sort it all out.


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[Assistant] I take a sip at church and I don't end up on a viral video, okay?


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[Assistant] I remember, I remember getting sick and dizzy.


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[Assistant] All I recall is driving for a long time. And I woke up in a room. I thought it was a hospital because it was so white and bright.


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[Assistant] I thought it was a doctor until I heard Nathan and felt a sharp sting in my neck. And... and...


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[Assistant] There are other things going on that might help you, but not right now.


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[Assistant] So I can walk down the halls with people calling me a viral slut. Thanks, Max.


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[Assistant] So what exactly are you saying, Max? I know Jefferson got reamed by the principal. Do you think they're involved?


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[Assistant] He was just posing to tease Frank. If you're not gonna believe me, why don't we check out what Frank has in his RV? What's that gonna prove? Frank has Rachel's bracelet. What else does he have in there?


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[Assistant] You knew Rachel Amber? Can you tell me about her?


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[Assistant] Kate Marsh. I was able to actually talk her down from the roof.


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[Assistant] That was you? If I had a bottle, cheers. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Wish I had a bottle for you, but I need to find out who else is involved in this.


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[Assistant] Well, I heard a rumor you were working for the Prescott family on the side.


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[Assistant] Now I can snoop in peace. But let's not waste time.


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[Assistant] I doubt Frank is trying out for the Arcadia Bay Brewers.


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[Assistant] Chloe, you can't keep blaming me and everybody for everything wrong in your life. It's so not fair. I gotta blame somebody.


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[Assistant] Chloe, your dad didn't choose to leave you.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. What is happening now?


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[Assistant] Hi, Taylor. Just because you were nice to Victoria doesn't mean I have to be nice to you.


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[Assistant] Well, if you do care, my mom had back surgery. Victoria was there for me. Like you are for Kate. I'm not about tearing people down, Matt.


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[Assistant] That was beyond epic fail. You even made me want to believe you.


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[Assistant] A cute robot panda keychain. Not bad, Super Max. You do have that Irish luck, Caulfield. What else?


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[Assistant] That's right, living large in Arcadia Bay. So that was cool. Show me more.


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[Assistant] You can rewind time, Max. That's fucking insane. We have to play. I don't have time. You did not just say that. Uh, check out your nose. Too much blow?


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[Assistant] I see how you roll. So go ahead, chat up Kate Marsh from Blackwell. I've got other people to hang out with too.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, Grumpf, I would like to welcome you to our meadow.


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[Assistant] Yes, it was a very clever trick.


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[Assistant] Goodbye again. I never get tired of springtime.


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[Assistant] Did you have fun? Yes, great fun. Your little ones are still out playing. Why didn't you come with us?


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[Assistant] We can get through this together. Let me help. I'm glad to hear you worry about me. That makes me feel better.


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[Assistant] That's your story now. How can I trust you?


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[Assistant] Then everybody at Blackwell composed pics of my body. I'm horny on the internet forever. No wonder they call it a web. Nothing can ever get out. Like my video. I wish I could go back in time and erase everything.


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[Assistant] I can't believe you quoted one of my favorite passages. Like I said, I care about you.


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[Assistant] Adventure Five The Musgrave Ritual


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[Assistant] An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow lodger to distraction.


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[Assistant] Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. The rough and tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.


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[Assistant] But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal scuttle, his tobacco in the toe-end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.


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[Assistant] I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime.


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[Assistant] And when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred box of cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pox, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.


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[Assistant] Our chambers were always full of chemicals, and of criminal relics, which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter-dish, or in even less desirable places. But his papers were my great crux.


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[Assistant] He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to dock it and arrange them.


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[Assistant] Therefore, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.


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[Assistant] Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.


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[Assistant] One winter's night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that as he had finished pasting extracts into his commonplace book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable. He could not deny the justice of my request,


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[Assistant] So with a rather rueful face he went off to his bedroom, from which he returned presently, pulling a large tin box behind him.


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[Assistant] This he placed in the middle of the floor, and squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid.


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[Assistant] I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages.


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[Assistant] There are cases enough here, Watson," said he, looking at me with mischievous eyes. I think that if you knew all that I had in this box you would ask me to pull some out instead of putting others in.


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[Assistant] These are the records of your early work then, I asked. I often wish that I had notes of those cases.


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[Assistant] Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me.


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[Assistant] He lifted bundle after bundle in a tender caressing sort of way.


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[Assistant] They are not all successes, Watson," said he, but there are some pretty little problems among them. Here is the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vanbury, the wine merchant.


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[Assistant] And the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife.


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[Assistant] And here, ah, now, this really is something, a little re-sha-shay.


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[Assistant] He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children's toys are kept in.


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[Assistant] From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, an old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old discs of metal.


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[Assistant] Well, my boy, what do you make of this lot? he asked, smiling at my expression. It is a curious collection.


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[Assistant] Very curious, and the story that hangs around it will strike you as being more curious still. These relics have a history, then? So much so that they are history. What do you mean by that?


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes picked them up one by one and laid them along the edge of the table. Then he reseated himself in his chair and looked them over with a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.


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[Assistant] These," said he, "'are all that I have left to remind me of the adventure of the Musgrave ritual.'


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[Assistant] I'd heard him mention the case more than once, though I'd never been able to gather the details.


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[Assistant] I should be so glad, said I, if you'd give me an account of it.


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[Assistant] And leave the litter as it is, he cried mischievously.


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[Assistant] Your tidiness won't bear much strain after all, Watson.


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[Assistant] But I should be glad that you should add this case to your annals, for there are points in it which make it quite unique in the criminal records of this, or, I believe, of any other country.


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[Assistant] A collection of my trifling achievements would certainly be incomplete which contained no account of this very singular business.


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[Assistant] You may remember how the affair of the glorious Scott, and my conversation with the unhappy man whose fate I told you of, first turned my attention in the direction of the profession which had become my life's work.


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[Assistant] You see me now when my name has become known far and wide, and when I am generally recognized both by the public and by the official force as being a final court of appeal in doubtful cases.


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[Assistant] Even when you knew me first, at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in A Study in Scarlet, I had already established a considerable, though not a very lucrative, connection.


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[Assistant] You can hardly realize then how difficult I found it at first, and how long I had to wait before I succeeded in making any headway.


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[Assistant] When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum, and there I waited filling in my too abundant leisure time by studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient.


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[Assistant] Now and again cases came in my way, principally through the introduction of old fellow students, for during my last years at the University there was a good deal of talk there about myself and my methods.


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[Assistant] The third of these cases was that of the Musgrave ritual, and it is to the interest which was aroused by that singular chain of events, and the large issues which proved to be at stake, that I trace my first stride towards the position which I now hold.


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[Assistant] Reginald Musgrave had been in the same college as myself, and I had some slight acquaintance with him.


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[Assistant] He was not generally popular among the undergraduates, though it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride was really an attempt to cover extreme natural diffidence.


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[Assistant] In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.


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[Assistant] He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the manor house of Hurlston is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.


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[Assistant] Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep. Once or twice we drifted into talk.


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[Assistant] And I can remember that more than once he expressed a keen interest in my methods of observation and inference.


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[Assistant] For four years I had seen nothing of him until one morning he walked into my room in Montague Street.


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[Assistant] He had changed little, was dressed like a young man of fashion, he was always a bit of a dandy, and preserved the same quiet suave manner which had formerly distinguished him.


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[Assistant] How has all gone with you, Musgrave? I asked, after we had cordially shaken hands.


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[Assistant] You probably heard of my poor father's death, said he. He was carried off about two years ago.


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[Assistant] Since then, I have of course had the Hurlston estates to manage, and as I am member for my district as well, my life has been a busy one.


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[Assistant] But I understand, Holmes, that you are turning to practical ends those powers with which you used to amaze us.


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[Assistant] I am delighted to hear it, for your advice at present would be exceedingly valuable to me. We have had some very strange doings at Hurlston, and the police have been able to throw no light upon the matter.


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[Assistant] It is really the most extraordinary and inexplicable business.


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[Assistant] You can imagine with what eagerness I listened to him, Watson, for the very chance for which I had been panting during all those months of inaction seemed to have come within my reach. In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.


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[Assistant] Reginald Musgrave sat down opposite to me and lit the cigarette which I had pushed towards him.


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[Assistant] You must know," said he, that though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone, for it is a rambling old place, and takes a good deal of looking after.


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[Assistant] I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house party, so that it would not do to be short-handed.


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[Assistant] Altogether there are eight maids, the cook, the butler, two footmen and a boy.


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[Assistant] Of those servants, the one who had been longest in our service was Brunton the butler.


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[Assistant] He was a young schoolmaster out of place when he first taken up by my father, but he was a man of great energy and character, and he soon became quite invaluable in the household.


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[Assistant] He was a well-grown, handsome man with a splendid forehead, and though he has been with us for twenty years, he cannot be more than forty now.


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[Assistant] But I suppose that he was comfortable and lacked energy to make any change.


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[Assistant] The butler of Hurlston is always a thing that is remembered by all who visit us. But this paragon has one fault.


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[Assistant] He is a bit of a Don Juan and you can imagine that for a man like him it is not a very difficult part to play in a quiet country district.


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[Assistant] When he was married it was all right, but since he's been a widow we have had no end of trouble with him.


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[Assistant] A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again, for we became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid.


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[Assistant] Rachel, who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament, had a sharp touch of brain fever, and goes about the house now, or did until yesterday, like a black-eyed shadow of her former self.


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[Assistant] That was our first drama at Hurlston, but a second one came to drive it from our minds, and it was prefaced by the disgrace and dismissal of Butler Brunton. This is how it came about.


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[Assistant] I have said that the man was intelligent, and this very intelligence has caused his ruin, for it seems to have led to an insatiable curiosity about things which did not in the least concern him.


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[Assistant] I had no idea of the lengths to which this would carry him until the merest accident opened my eyes to it.


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[Assistant] I have said that the house is a rambling one. One day last week, on Thursday night, to be more exact, I found that I could not sleep having foolishly taken a cup of strong café noir after my dinner.


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[Assistant] After struggling against it until two in the morning, I felt that it was quite hopeless, so I rose and lit the candle with the intention of continuing a novel which I was reading.


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[Assistant] In order to reach the billiard room I had to descend a flight of stairs and then to cross the head of a passage which led to the library and the gun room.


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[Assistant] You can imagine my surprise when as I looked down this corridor I saw a glimmer of light coming from the open door of the library.


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[Assistant] I had myself extinguished the lamp and closed the door before coming to bed. Naturally my first thought was of burglars.


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[Assistant] The corridors at Hurlston have their walls largely decorated with trophies of old weapons. From one of these I picked a battle-axe, and then, leaving my candle behind me, I crept on tiptoe down the passage and peeped in at the open door.


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[Assistant] Brunton the butler was in the library. He was sitting, fully dressed, in an easy chair with a slip of paper which looked like a map upon his knee.


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[Assistant] And his forehead sunk forward upon his hand in deep thought.


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[Assistant] I stood dumb with astonishment, watching him from the darkness.


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[Assistant] A small taper on the edge of the table shed a feeble light, which suffice to show me that he was fully dressed.


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[Assistant] Suddenly, as I looked, he rose from his chair, and walking over to a bureau at the side, he unlocked it and drew out one of the drawers.


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[Assistant] From this he took a paper, and returning to his seat, he flattened it out beside the taper on the edge of the table, and began to study it with minute attention.


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[Assistant] My indignation at this calm examination of our family documents overcame me so far that I took a step forward.


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[Assistant] And Brunton, looking up, saw me standing in the doorway.


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[Assistant] He sprang to his feet, his face turned livid with fear, and he thrust into his breast the chart-like paper which he had been originally studying.


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[Assistant] This is how you repay the trust which we have reposed in you. You will leave my service to-morrow.


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[Assistant] He bowed with the look of a man who is utterly crushed, and slunk past me without a word.


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[Assistant] The taper was still on the table, and by its light I glanced to see what the paper was which Brunton had taken from the Bureau.


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[Assistant] To my surprise, it was nothing of any importance at all.


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[Assistant] But simply a copy of the questions and answers in the singular old observance called the Musgrave ritual.


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[Assistant] It is a sort of ceremony peculiar to our family, which each Musgrave for centuries past has gone through on his coming of age.


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[Assistant] A thing of private interest, and perhaps of some little importance to the archaeologist, like our own blazenings and charges, but of no practical use whatever.


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[Assistant] We had better come back to the paper afterwards, said I.


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[Assistant] If you think it really necessary he answered with some hesitation


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[Assistant] To continue my statement, however, I re-locked a bureau, using the key which Brunton had left, and I had turned to go when I was surprised to find that the butler had returned and was standing before me.


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[Assistant] Mr Musgrave, sir, he cried, in a voice which was hoarse with emotion.


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[Assistant] I cannot bear disgrace, sir. I've always been proud above my station in life, and disgrace would kill me.


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[Assistant] My blood will be on your head, sir. It will indeed, if you drive me to despair.


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[Assistant] If you cannot keep me after what has passed, then for God's sake let me give you notice and leave in a month, as if of my own free will.


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[Assistant] I could stand that, Mr. Musgrave, but not to be cast out before all the folk that I know so well.


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[Assistant] You don't deserve much consideration, Brunton," I answered. Your conduct has been most infamous.


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[Assistant] As you have been a long time in the family, I have no wish to bring public disgrace upon you. A month, however, is too long.


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[Assistant] Take yourself away in a week, and give what reason you like for going.


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[Assistant] A week, I repeated, and you may consider yourself to have been very leniently dealt with.


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[Assistant] He crept away, his face sunk upon his breast like a broken man, while I put out the light and returned to my room.


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[Assistant] For two days after this Brunton was most assiduous in his attention to his duties.


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[Assistant] I made no allusion to what had passed and waited with some curiosity to see how he would cover his disgrace.


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[Assistant] On the third morning, however, he did not appear, as was his custom after breakfast, to receive my instructions for the day.


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[Assistant] As I left the dining room, I happened to meet Rachel Howells, the maid.


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[Assistant] I have told you that she had only recently recovered from an illness, and was looking so wretchedly pale and worn, that I remonstrated with her for being at work.


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[Assistant] You should be in bed, I said. Come back to your duties when you are stronger.


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[Assistant] She looked at me with so strange an expression that I began to suspect that her brain was affected.


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[Assistant] I am strong enough, Mr Musgrave," said she.


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[Assistant] She fell back against the wall with shriek after shriek of laughter, while I, horrified at this sudden hysterical attack, rushed to the bell to summon help.


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[Assistant] The girl was taken to her room still screaming and sobbing while I made inquiries about Brunton. There was no doubt about it that he had disappeared.


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[Assistant] His bed had not been slept in. He had been seen by no one since he had retired to his room the night before, and yet it was difficult to see how he could have left the house, as both windows and doors were found to be fastened in the morning.


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[Assistant] His clothes, his watch, and even his money were in his room, but the black suit which he usually wore was missing.


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[Assistant] His slippers too were gone, but his boots were left behind.


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[Assistant] Where then could Butler Brunton have gone in the night, and what could have become of him now?


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[Assistant] Of course we searched the house from cellar to garret, but there was no trace of him.


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[Assistant] It is, as I have said, a labyrinth of an old house, especially the original wing, which is now practically uninhabited, but we ransacked every room and cellar without discovering the least sign of the missing man.


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[Assistant] It was incredible to me that he could have gone away leaving all his property behind him, and yet where could he be?


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[Assistant] I called in the local police but without success.


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[Assistant] Rain had fallen on the night before, and we examined the lawn and the paths all around the house, but in vain.


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[Assistant] Matters were in this state when a new development quite drew our attention away from the original mystery.


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[Assistant] For two days Rachel Howells had been so ill, sometimes delirious, sometimes hysterical,


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[Assistant] On the third night after Brunton's disappearance, the nurse, finding her patient sleeping nicely, had dropped into a nap in the armchair when she woke in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no signs of the invalid.


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[Assistant] It was not difficult to tell the direction which she had taken, for starting from under her window we could follow her footmarks easily across the lawn to the edge of the mirror, where they vanished close to the gravel path which leads out of the grounds. The lake there is eight feet deep.


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[Assistant] And you can imagine our feelings when we saw that the trail of the poor demented girl came to an end at the edge of it.


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[Assistant] Of course we had the drags at once, and set to work to recover the remains, but no trace of the body could we find.


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[Assistant] On the other hand we brought to the surface an object of a most unexpected kind.


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[Assistant] It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discoloured metal and several dull coloured pieces of pebble or glass.


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[Assistant] This strange find was all that we could get from the Mere, and although we have made every possible search and inquiry yesterday, we know nothing of the fate either of Rachel Howells or of Richard Brunton. The county police are at their wits' end, and I have come up to you as a last resource.


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[Assistant] You can imagine, Watson, with what eagerness I listen to this extraordinary sequence of events, and endeavour to piece them together, and to devise some common thread upon which they might all hang.


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[Assistant] The butler was gone. The maid was gone. The maid had loved the butler, but had afterwards caused to hate him.


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[Assistant] She was of Welsh blood, fiery and passionate. She had been terribly excited immediately after his disappearance.


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[Assistant] She had flung into the lake a bag containing some curious contents. These were all factors which had to be taken into consideration, and yet none of them got quite to the heart of the matter.


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[Assistant] What was the starting point of this chain of events? There lay the end of this tangled line.


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[Assistant] I must see that paper, Musgrave," said I, which this butler of yours thought it was worth his while to consult, even at the risk of the loss of his place.


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[Assistant] It is rather an absurd business, this ritual of ours," he answered.


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[Assistant] But it has at least the saving grace of antiquity to excuse it.


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[Assistant] I have a copy of the questions and answers here, if you care to run your eye over them.


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[Assistant] He handed me the very paper which I have here, Watson, and this is the strange catechism to which each Musgrave had to submit when he came to man's estate.


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[Assistant] All that is ours, why should we give it? For the sake of the trust.


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[Assistant] The original has no date, but is in the spelling of the middle of the seventeenth century," remarked Musgrave.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid, however, that it can be of little help to you in solving this mystery.


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[Assistant] At least, said I, it gives us another mystery, and one which is even more interesting than the first. It may be that the solution of the one may prove to be the solution of the other.


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[Assistant] You will excuse me, Musgrave, if I say that your butler appears to me to have been a very clever man, and to have had a clearer insight than ten generations of his masters."


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[Assistant] Paper seems to me to be of no practical importance.


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[Assistant] But to me it seems immensely practical, and I fancy that Brunton took the same view.


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[Assistant] He had probably seen it before that night on which you caught him.


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[Assistant] It is very possible. We took no pains to hide it.


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[Assistant] He simply wished, I shall imagine, to refresh his memory upon that last occasion. He had, as I understand, some sort of map or chart which he was comparing with the manuscript, and which he thrust into his pocket when you appeared. That is true.


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[Assistant] But what could he have to do with this old family custom of ours, and what does this rigmarole mean?


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[Assistant] I don't think that we should have much difficulty in determining that," said I. With your permission, we will take the first train down to Sussex, and go a little more deeply into the matter upon the spot.


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[Assistant] The same afternoon saw as both at Hurlston possibly have seen pictures and read descriptions of the famous old building.


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[Assistant] So I will confine my account of it to saying that it is built in the shape of an L, the long arm being the more modern portion, and the shorter the ancient nucleus from which the other had developed.


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[Assistant] Over the low, heavily lintel door, in the centre of this old part, is chiselled a date 1607, but experts are agreed that the beams and stonework are really much older than this.


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[Assistant] The enormously thick walls and tiny windows of this part had in the last century driven the family into building the new wing, and the old one was used now as a storehouse and a cellar, when it was used at all.


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[Assistant] A splendid park with fine old timber surrounds the house, and the lake to which my client had referred lay close to the avenue about two hundred yards from the building.


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[Assistant] I was already firmly convinced, Watson, that there were not three separate mysteries here, but only one, and that if I could read the Musgrave ritual aright, I should hold in my hand the clue which would lead me to the truth concerning both the butler Brunton and the maid Howells. To that then I turned all my energies.


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[Assistant] Why should the servant be so anxious to master this old formula?


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[Assistant] Evidently, because he saw something in it which had escaped all those generations of country squires, and from which he expected some personal advantage. What was it, then, and how had it affected his fate?


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[Assistant] It was perfectly obvious to me, on reading the ritual, that the measurements must refer to some spot to which the rest of the document alluded, and that if we could find that spot we should be in a fair way towards finding what the secret was which the old Musgraves had thought it necessary to embalm in so curious a fashion.


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[Assistant] There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm.


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[Assistant] As to the oak, there could be no question at all. Right in front of the house, upon the left-hand side of the drive, there stood a patriarch among oaks, one of the most magnificent trees that I have ever seen.


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[Assistant] That was there when your ritual was drawn up, said I, as we drove past it.


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[Assistant] It was there at the Norman Conquest in all probability, he answered. It has a girth of twenty-three feet. Have you any old elms? I asked.


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[Assistant] There used to be a very old one over yonder, but it was struck by lightning ten years ago, and we cut down the stump. You can see where it used to be? Oh, yes. There are no other elms. No old ones, but plenty of beaches. I should like to see where it grew.


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[Assistant] We had driven up in a dog-cart, and my client led me away at once, without our entering the house, to the scar on the lawn where the elm had stood. It was nearly midway between the oak and the house. My investigation seemed to be progressing


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[Assistant] I suppose it is impossible to find out how high the elm was, I asked.


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[Assistant] When my old tutor used to give me an exercise in trigonometry, it always took the shape of measuring heights.


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[Assistant] My data were coming more quickly than I could have reasonably hoped.


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[Assistant] Tell me," I asked, did your butler ever ask you such a question? Reginald Musgrave looked at me in astonishment.


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[Assistant] Now that you call it my mind," he answered, Brunton did ask me about the height of the tree some months ago, in connection with some little argument with the groom.


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[Assistant] This was excellent news, Watson, for it showed me that I was on the right road.


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[Assistant] I looked up at the sun. It was low in the heavens, and I calculated that in less than an hour it would lie just above the topmost branches of the old oak.


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[Assistant] One condition mentioned in the ritual would then be fulfilled, and the shadow of the elm must mean the farther end of the shadow. Otherwise the trunk would have been chosen as the guide.


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[Assistant] I had then to find out where the far end of the shadow would fall when the sun was just clear of the oak.


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[Assistant] Well, at least I knew that if Brunton could do it, I could also.


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[Assistant] Besides, there was no real difficulty. I went with Musgrave to his study, and whittled myself this peg to which I tied this long string with a knot at each yard. Then I took two lengths of a fishing-rod, which came to just six feet, and I went back with my client to where the elm had been. The sun was just grazing the top of the oak,


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[Assistant] I fastened the rod on end, marked out the direction of the shadow and measured it. It was nine feet in length.


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[Assistant] Of course the calculation now was a simple one. If a rod of 6 feet threw a shadow of 9, a tree of 64 feet would throw one of 96, and the line of the one would of course be the line of the other.


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[Assistant] I measured out the distance which brought me almost to the wall of the house, and I thrust a peg into the spot.


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[Assistant] You can imagine my exultation, Watson, when within two inches of my peg I saw a conical depression in the ground.


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[Assistant] I knew that it was the mark made by Brunton in his measurements, and that I was still upon his trail.


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[Assistant] From this starting point I proceeded to step, having first taken the cardinal points of my pocket compass. Ten steps with each foot took me along parallel with the wall of the house, and again I marked my spot with a peg.


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[Assistant] Then I carefully paced off five to the east and two to the south. It brought me to the very threshold of the old door.


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[Assistant] Two steps to the west meant now that I was to go two paces down the stone-flagged passage, and this was the place indicated by the ritual.


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[Assistant] Never have I felt such a cold chill of disappointment, Watson.


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[Assistant] For a moment it seemed to me that there must be some radical mistake in my calculations.


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[Assistant] The setting sun shone full upon the passage floor, and I could see that the old foot-worn grey stones with which it was paved were firmly cemented together, and had certainly not been moved for many a long year. Brunton had not been at work here.


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[Assistant] I tapped upon the floor, but it sounded the same all over, and there was no sign of any crack or crevice.


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[Assistant] But fortunately Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.


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[Assistant] We went down a winding stone stair, and my companion, striking a match, lit a large lantern which stood on a barrel in the corner.


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[Assistant] In an instant it was obvious that we had at last come upon the true place, and that we had not been the only people to visit the spot recently.


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[Assistant] It had been used for the storage of wood, but the billets which had evidently been littered over the floor were now piled at the sides so as to leave a clear space in the middle.


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[Assistant] In this space lay a large and heavy flagstone with a rusted iron ring in the centre, to which a thick shepherd's check muffler was attached. "'By Jove!' cried my client. "'That's Brunton's muffler. I've seen it on him, and could swear to it. What has the villain been doing here?'


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[Assistant] At my suggestion a couple of the county police were summoned to be present, and I then endeavoured to raise the stone by pulling on the cravat.


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[Assistant] I could only move it slightly, and it was with the aid of one of the constables that I succeeded at last in carrying it to one side.


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[Assistant] A black hole yawned beneath into which we all peered, while Musgrave, kneeling at the side, pushed down the lantern.


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[Assistant] A small chamber about seven feet deep and four feet square lay open to us. At one side of this was a squat brass-bound wooden box, the lid of which was hinged upwards with this curious old-fashioned key projecting from the lock.


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[Assistant] It was furred outside by a thick layer of dust, and dampened worms had eaten through the wood, so that a crop of livid fungi was growing on the inside of it. Several disks of metal—old coins, apparently, such as I hold here—were scattered over the bottom of the box, but it contained nothing else.


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[Assistant] At the moment, however, we had no thought for the old chest, for our eyes were riveted upon that which crouched beside it.


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[Assistant] It was the figure of a man, clad in a suit of black, who squatted down upon his hands with his forehead sunk upon the edge of the box, and his two arms thrown out on each side of it.


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[Assistant] The attitude had drawn all the stagnant blood to the face, and no man could have recognised that distorted liver-coloured countenance, but his height, his dress, and his hair were all sufficient to show my client, when we had drawn the body up, that it was indeed his missing butler.


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[Assistant] He had been dead some days, but there was no wound or bruise upon his person to show how he had met his dreadful end.


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[Assistant] When his body had been carried from the cellar, we found ourselves still confronted with a problem which was almost as formidable as that which we had started.


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[Assistant] I confess that so far, Watson, I had been disappointed in my investigation.


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[Assistant] I had reckoned upon solving the matter when once I had found the place referred to in the ritual.


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[Assistant] But now I was there, and was apparently as far as ever from knowing what it was which the family had concealed with such elaborate precautions.


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[Assistant] It is true that I had thrown a light upon the fate of Brunton.


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[Assistant] But now I had to ascertain how that fate had come upon him, and what part had been played in the matter by the woman who had disappeared.


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[Assistant] I sat down upon a keg in the corner and thought the whole matter carefully over.


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[Assistant] You know my methods in such cases, Watson. I put myself in the man's place, and, having first gauged his intelligence, I try to imagine how I should myself have proceeded under the same circumstances.


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[Assistant] In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton's intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it. He knew that something valuable was concealed.


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[Assistant] He had spotted the place. He found that the stone which covered it was just too heavy for a man to move unaided. What would he do next?


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[Assistant] He could not get help from outside, even if he had someone whom he could trust, without the unbarring of doors and considerable risk of detection.


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[Assistant] It was better, if he could, to have his helpmate inside the house. But whom could he ask? This girl had been devoted to him.


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[Assistant] A man always finds it hard to realise that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.


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[Assistant] He would try by a few attentions to make his peace with the girl howls, and then would engage her as his accomplice. Together they would come at night to the cellar, and their united force would suffice to raise a stone.


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[Assistant] So far I could follow their actions as if I had actually seen them.


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[Assistant] But for two of them, and one a woman, it must have been heavy work the raising of that stone.


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[Assistant] A burly Sussex policeman and I had found it no light job. What would they do to assist them? Probably what I should have done myself.


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[Assistant] I rose and examined carefully the different billets of wood which were scattered round the floor. Almost at once I came upon what I expected. One piece, about three feet in length, had a very marked indentation at one end, while several were flattened at the sides as if they had been compressed by some considerable weight.


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[Assistant] Evidently, as they had dragged the stone up, they had thrust the chunks of wood into the chink, until at last, when the opening was large enough to crawl through, they would hold it open by a billet placed lengthwise which might very well become indented at the lower end, since the whole weight of the stone would press it down to the edge of this other slab. So far I was still on safe ground.


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[Assistant] And now, how was I to proceed to reconstruct this midnight drama?


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[Assistant] Clearly only one could fit into the hole, and that one was Brunton. The girl must have waited above.


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[Assistant] Brunton then unlocked the box, handed up the contents, presumably, since they were not to be found, and then, and then what happened?


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[Assistant] What smouldering fire of vengeance had suddenly sprung into flame in this passionate Celtic woman's soul when she saw the man who had wronged her, wronged her perhaps far more than we suspected, in her power.


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[Assistant] Was it a chance that the wood had slipped, and that the stone had shut Brunton into what had become his sepulcher? Had she only been guilty of silence as to his fate?


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[Assistant] Or had some sudden blow from her hand dash the support away and sent the slab crashing down into its place.


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[Assistant] Be that as it might, I seem to see that woman's figure still clutching at her treasure-trove, and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing, perhaps, with the muffled screams from behind her, and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover's life out.


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[Assistant] Here was the secret of her blanched face, her shaken nerves, her peals of hysterical laughter on the next morning.


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[Assistant] But what had been in the box? What had she done with that?


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[Assistant] Of course. It must have been the old metal and pebbles which my client had dragged from the mirror.


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[Assistant] She had thrown them in there at the first opportunity to remove the last trace of her crime.


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[Assistant] For twenty minutes I had sat motionless, thinking the matter out.


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[Assistant] Musgrave still stood with a very pale face, swinging his lantern and peering down into the hole.


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[Assistant] These are the coins of Charles I," said he, holding out the few which had been in the box. You see, we were right in fixing our date for the ritual.


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[Assistant] We may find something else of Charles I. I cried as the probable meaning of the first two questions of the ritual broke suddenly upon me.


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[Assistant] Let me see the contents of the bag which you fished from the mirror.


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[Assistant] We ascended to his study, and he laid the debris before me.


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[Assistant] I could understand his regarding it as of small importance when I looked at it, for the metal was almost black and the stones lusterless and dull.


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[Assistant] I rubbed one of them on my sleeve, however, and it glowed afterwards like a spark in the dark hollow of my hand. The metalwork was in the form of a double ring, but it had been bent and twisted out of its original shape.


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[Assistant] You must bear in mind, said I, that the royal party made head in England even after the death of the king, and that when they at last fled they probably left many of their most precious possessions buried behind them, with the intention of returning for them in more peaceful times.


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[Assistant] My ancestor, Sir Ralph Musgrave, was a prominent cavalier, and the right-hand man of Charles II in his wanderings, said my friend.


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[Assistant] Ah, indeed, I answered. Well now, I think that really should give us the last link that we wanted.


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[Assistant] I must congratulate you on coming into the possession, though in rather a tragic manner, of a relic which is of great intrinsic value


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[Assistant] That was after the execution of Charles. Then, who shall have it? He who will come.


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[Assistant] That was Charles II, whose advent was already foreseen.


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[Assistant] There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal stewards. And how came it in the pond?


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[Assistant] Ah, that is a question that will take some time to answer.


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[Assistant] And with that I sketched out to him the whole long chain of surmise, and of proof which I had constructed.


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[Assistant] The twilight had closed in, and the moon was shining brightly in the sky before my narrative was finished.


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[Assistant] And how was it, then, that Charles did not get his crown when he returned?" asked Musgrave, pushing back the relic into its linen bag.


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[Assistant] Ah, there you lay your finger upon the point which we shall probably never be able to clear up.


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[Assistant] It is likely that the Musgrave who held the secret died in the interval, and by some oversight left this guide to his descendant without explaining the meaning of it.


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[Assistant] From that day to this it has been handed down from father to son, until at last it came within reach of a man who tore its secret out of it and lost his life in the venture. And that's the story of the Musgrave ritual, Watson.


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[Assistant] They have the crown down at Hurleston, though they had some legal bother and a considerable sum to pay before they were allowed to retain it.


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[Assistant] I am sure that if you mentioned my name, they would be happy to show it to you. Of the woman nothing was ever heard.


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[Assistant] I had no idea. I'll take care of it.


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[Assistant] Wow, what an honor. Always wondered what this would feel like. Uh, so eight years ago, I got the worst career advice of my life. I had a friend tell me,


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[Assistant] Scott, don't worry about how much you like the work you're doing right now. It's all about just building your resume.


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[Assistant] And I'd just come back from, uh, living in Spain for a while, and I joined this Fortune 500 company, I thought, this is fantastic, I'm gonna have this big impact on the world, and all these ideas.


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[Assistant] And within about two months, I noticed at about 10am every morning, I had this strange urge to want to slam my head through the monitor of my computer. I don't know if anyone's ever felt that. And I noticed...


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[Assistant] Pretty soon after that, all the competitors in our space had already automated my job role.


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[Assistant] This is about, right about when I got this sage advice to build up my resume. Well as I'm trying to figure out what


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[Assistant] As I'm trying to figure out what, you know, two-story window I'm gonna jump out of and, you know, change things up, I read some altogether different advice from Warren Buffett and he said, Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.


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[Assistant] And I heard that, and that was all I needed. Within two weeks, I was out of there, and I left with one intention, to find something that I could screw up. That's how tough it was. I just wanted to have some type of impact, didn't matter what it was.


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[Assistant] And I found out pretty quickly after that that I wasn't alone. It turns out over 80% of the people around don't enjoy their work.


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[Assistant] I'm guessing this room is different, but that's the average that Deloitte has done with their studies. So I wanted to find out.


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[Assistant] What is it that sets these people apart? The people who do the passionate world-changing work they wake up inspired every day?


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[Assistant] And then these people, the other 80%, who lead these lives of quiet desperation.


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[Assistant] So I started to interview all these people doing this inspiring work and I, I read books and, and did, you know, case studies and, uh, 300 books all together on purpose and career and all this. Totally just self-immersion. Really for the selfless reason of, I wanted to find the work that I couldn't not do. What that was for me. But as I was doing this, more and more people started to ask me,


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[Assistant] Scott, you know, you're into this career thing. I don't really like my job. Can we sit down for lunch? I'd say sure, but...


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[Assistant] I would have to warn them because at this point my quit rate was also 80%. Of the people I'd sit down with for lunch, 80% would quit their job within two months.


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[Assistant] Because somebody told me I'm supposed to. And I realized that so many people around us are climbing their way up this ladder that someone tells them to climb and ends up being leaned up against the wrong wall. Or no wall at all.


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[Assistant] So the more time I spent around these people and saw this, this problem, I thought, what if we could create a community, a place where people could feel like they belonged, and that it was okay to do things differently, to take the road less traveled, where that was encouraged, and inspire people to change.


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[Assistant] And that later became what I now call, Leave Your Legend, which I'll explain in a little bit. But as we've done this,


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[Assistant] As I've made these discoveries, I noticed a framework of really three simple things that all these different passionate world changers have in common. Whether you're, you know, like Steve Jobs, or if you're just, you know, the person has the bakery down the street, but you're doing work that embodies who you are.


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[Assistant] I want to share those three with you so we can use them as a lens for the rest of today and hopefully the rest of our life.


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[Assistant] The first part of this three-step passionate work framework is


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[Assistant] Becoming a self-expert and understanding yourself because if you don't know what you're looking for, you're never going to find it.


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[Assistant] And the thing is that no one's gonna do this for us. You know, there's no major in university on passion and purpose and career. I don't know how that's not a required double major, but don't even, don't even get me started on that. I mean you spend more time picking out a dorm room TV set than you do, you know, picking your major in your area of study.


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[Assistant] But the point is, it's on us to figure that out. And we need a framework, we need a way to navigate through this.


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[Assistant] And so the first step of our compass is finding what our unique strengths are. What are the things that, that we wake up loving to do no matter what, whether paid or not paid, the things that people thank us for.


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[Assistant] And Strengths Finder 2.0 is a book and also an online tool. Highly recommended for sorting out what it is that you're naturally good at. And then next, what's our...


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[Assistant] What's our framework or our hierarchy for making decisions? You know, is it the people that are, do we care about, you know, the people, our family, health, or is it achievement, success, all this different stuff? We have to figure out what it is to make these decisions so we know what our soul is made of, so that we don't go selling it to some cause we don't give a shit about. And then, the next step is our experiences. We have,


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[Assistant] It's like every week, actually every day, every week, every month, every year, I spend some time just reflecting on what went right, what went wrong.


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[Assistant] And what do I want to repeat? What can I apply more to my life? And even more so than that,


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[Assistant] As you see people, especially today, who inspire you, who are doing things where you say, oh god, what Jeff is doing, I want to be like him. Why are you saying that? Open up a journal, write down what it is about them that inspires you. It's not going to be everything about their life, but you know, whatever it is, take note of that, because over time we have this repository of things that


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[Assistant] We can use to, to apply to our life and have a more, you know, passionate existence and make a better impact. Because when we start to do, put these things together, we can then define what it is success actually means to us.


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[Assistant] And without these different parts of the compass, it's impossible. We end up in this situation, we have that, you know, scripted life that, you know, everyone seems to be living going up this ladder to nowhere. It's kind of like in Wall Street 2, if anyone saw that, the, the kind of peon employee asked the big Wall Street banker CEO said,


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[Assistant] It's a sad state of most of the people that haven't spent time understanding what actually matters, then we keep reaching for something that doesn't mean anything to us, but we're doing it because everyone said we're supposed to. But once we have this framework together, we can start to identify the things that make us come alive.


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[Assistant] You know, before this, a passion could come and hit you in the face. Or maybe in your possible life work, you might throw it to the side because you don't have a way of identifying it.


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[Assistant] But once you do, you can see something that's congruent with my strengths, my values, who I am as a person. So I'm gonna grab a hold of this, I'm gonna do something with it. And I'm gonna pursue it and try and make an impact with it. And, you know, live your legend and the movement we've built.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't exist if I didn't have this compass to identify wow, this is something I want to pursue and make a difference with.


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[Assistant] So if we don't know what we're looking for, we're never going to find it. But once we have this, this framework, this compass, then we can move on to what's next. And that's not me up there. Uhm, but...


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[Assistant] Doing the impossible and pushing our limits because there's two reasons why people don't do things. One is because they tell themselves they can't do them. Or the other is people around them tell them they can't do them. Either way we start to believe it, either we give up or we never start in the first place.


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[Assistant] The thing is, everything was impossible until somebody did it. Every invention, every new thing in the world, people thought were crazy at first. Roger Bannister in the four minute mile, it was a physical impossibility to break the four minute mile in a foot race. Until Roger Bannister stood up and did it. And then what happened? Two months later, like 16 people broke the four minute mile.


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[Assistant] The things that we have in our head, that we think are impossible, often just milestones waiting to be accomplished. And we can push those limits a bit. And I think this starts with


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[Assistant] Probably your physical body and physical fitness more than anything is we can control that. You know, if you show yourself, you don't think you can run a mile, you show yourself you can run a mile or two or even like a marathon or lose five pounds, whatever it is, you realize that can be transferred, that confidence compounds can be transferred into the rest of your world.


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[Assistant] I've actually gotten into the habit of this a little bit with my friends. We had this little group. We kind of go on physical adventures and recently I found myself in a kind of precarious spot. I'm terrified of deep dark blue water.


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[Assistant] I don't know if everyone's ever had that same fear ever since they watched Jaws 1, 2, 3, and 4 like 6 times when I was a kid. But anything above here, if it's murky, I can already feel it like right now. I swear there's something in there. Even if it's Lake Tahoe, it's freshwater. Totally unfounded fear. Ridiculous, but it's there.


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[Assistant] Anyway, three years ago, I find myself on this tugboat, right down here in the San Francisco Bay. It's a rainy, stormy, windy day. And people are sitting sick on the boat, and I'm sitting there wearing a wetsuit. And I'm looking out the window in pure terror.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking I'm about to swim to my death. I'm gonna try and swim across the Golden Gate. Uh, and my guess is some people in this room might have done that before. And I'm sitting there and my buddy Jonathan would talk me into it. He comes up to me and he could see.


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[Assistant] The state I was in. He comes up and he says, Scott, hey man, he's like, what's the worst that can happen? He's like, you're wearing a wetsuit, you're not gonna sink.


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[Assistant] He's like, and if you can't make it, just hop on one of the 20 kayaks. Plus, if there's a shark attack, why are they gonna pick you over the 80 people that are in the water?


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[Assistant] So thanks, that helps. He's like, no, but really, just have fun with this. He's like, good luck. And he dives in, swims off. I'm like, okay. It turns out the pep talk totally worked. I just felt this whole feeling of calm.


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[Assistant] Think for a second how you would have approached your world differently. At nine years old, you found out you could swim.


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[Assistant] Getting out of the water and of course half the kids already finished. So they're cheering me on and they're all excited. And...


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[Assistant] And I'm, I got total popsicle head if anyone's ever swam in the bay. And I'm trying to just thaw my face out. I'm watching people finish.


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[Assistant] I see this one kid, something didn't look right. He's just flailing like this, and he's barely able to sip some air before he slams his head back down.


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[Assistant] And I noticed other parents were watching too, and I swear they were thinking the same thing I was. This is why you don't let nine-year-olds swim from Alcatraz.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, this was not fatigue. All of a sudden, two parents run up, they grab him, and they put him on their shoulders, and they're dragging him. He's just dragging like this. And, I mean, totally limp.


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[Assistant] He puts his fist up in the most insane show of victory I've ever seen. I can still feel the warmth and the energy on this guy when he, when he made this accomplishment. I, because I had seen him.


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[Assistant] Earlier that day, in his wheelchair, I just had no idea he was going to swim.


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[Assistant] Where is he gonna be in 20 years? How many people told him he couldn't do that, that he would die if he tried that?


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[Assistant] You prove people wrong, you prove yourself wrong, you can make these little incremental pushes of what you believe is possible for yourself. You don't have to be the fastest marathon in the world, just your own impossibilities to accomplish those. And it starts with little bitty steps. And the best way to do this is


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[Assistant] To surround yourself with passionate people. The fastest way to do things you don't think can be done, is to surround yourself with people already doing them. There's this quote by, by Jim Rohn, and it says, you are the average of the five people you spend most time with.


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[Assistant] And there is no bigger life hack in the history of the world from getting where you are today to where you want to be than the people you choose to put in your corner.


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[Assistant] They change everything. And it's a, it's a proven fact. In uh, 1898, Norman Triplett did this study with uh,


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[Assistant] A bunch of cyclists, and you would measure their times around a track in a group and also individually. And you found that every time the cyclist in a group would cycle faster.


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[Assistant] And it's been repeated on all kinds of walks of life since then. And it proves the same thing over and over again, that the people around you matter. And an environment is everything.


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[Assistant] But it's on you to control it, because it can go both ways. With these 80% of people,


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[Assistant] Who don't like the work they do. That means most people around us, not in this room, but around everywhere else, are encouraging complacency.


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[Assistant] Uh, what, personal example, maybe a year ago and a couple years ago, has anyone ever had a hobby or a passion they pour their heart and soul into? Unbelievable amount of time and they so badly want to call it a business, but no one's paying attention and it doesn't make a dime.


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[Assistant] Okay, I was there for four years trying to build this live your legend movement to help people do work that they genuinely cared about and inspired them.


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[Assistant] And this is how badly I wanted it, but it grew by zero percent for four years. And I was about to shut it down. And right about then,


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[Assistant] I met, I moved to San Francisco and started to meet some pretty interesting people that had these crazy lifestyles of adventure, of businesses and websites and blogs that surrounded their passions and helped people in a meaningful way. And one of my friends, now he has a family of eight and he supports his whole family with a blog that he writes for twice a week. They just come back from a month in Europe, all of them together. This stuff blew my mind, it's like how does this even exist?


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[Assistant] And I got unbelievably inspired by seeing this. And instead of shutting it down, I decided let's take it seriously.


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[Assistant] I did everything I could to spend my time around, like, every waking hour possible trying to hound these guys with hanging out and having beers and workouts, whatever it was. And after 4 years of zero growth, and then 6 months of hanging around these people, the community at Live Your Legend grew by 10 times. In another 12 months, it grew by 160 times.


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[Assistant] And today over 30,000 people from 158 countries use our career and connection tools on a monthly basis. And those people have made up that community of passionate folks who inspire that possibility that I dreamed of for Live Your Legend so many years back. The people change everything. And this is why, you know,


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[Assistant] You asked what, what was going on. Well, for four years I knew nobody in this space. And...


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[Assistant] I didn't even know it existed, that people could do this stuff and you could have movements like this. And then all of a sudden I'm over here in San Francisco and everyone around me is doing it. It became normal. So my thinking went from, how could I possibly do this?


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[Assistant] To how could I possibly not? And right then, when that happens, that switch goes on in your head.


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[Assistant] It ripples across your whole world. And without even trying, your standards go from here to here. You don't need to change your goals or anything, you just need to change your surroundings. That's it. And that's why


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[Assistant] This is the group of people that, that inspires possibility. We have a whole day to spend together and plenty more.


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[Assistant] Some things up, in terms of what we, these three pillars, you know, they all have,


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[Assistant] One thing in common, more than anything else. They're 100% in our control. No one can tell you you can't learn about yourself.


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[Assistant] No one can tell you, you can't push your limits and learn your own impossible and push that.


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[Assistant] No one can tell you you can't surround yourself with inspiring people or get away from the people who bring you down.


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[Assistant] You can't control a recession. You can't control getting fired or getting a car accident. Most things are totally out of our hands. These three things are totally on us.


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[Assistant] And they can change our whole world if we decide to do something about it.


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[Assistant] The thing is, it's starting to happen on a widespread level. I just read in Forbes, the US government reported for the first time in a month where more people had quit their jobs than had been laid off. And they thought this was an anomaly, but then it's happened three months straight. In a time where people claim it's kind of a tough environment, people are pretty much giving a middle finger to this scripted life.


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[Assistant] The things that people say you're supposed to do in exchange for things that matter to them and do the things that inspire them. And the thing is, people are waking up to this possibility that


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[Assistant] Really, the only thing that limits possibility now is imagination. That's not a cliché anymore.


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[Assistant] I don't care what it is that you're into, what passion, what hobby. If you're into knitting, you can find someone who is killing it knitting. And you can, you can learn from them. It's wild. And that's what this whole day is about, to learn from the folks speaking and what we, we profile these people and live your legend every day.


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[Assistant] Because it shows people, when ordinary people are doing the extraordinary, when you can be around that, it becomes normal.


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[Assistant] And this isn't about being, you know, Gandhi or Steve Jobs doing something crazy.


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[Assistant] It's just about doing something that matters to you and makes an impact that only you can make.


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[Assistant] Was we, speaking of Gandhi, uh, he was a recovering lawyer as I've heard the term.


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[Assistant] And he was called to a greater cause. Something that mattered to him, he could not do. And he has this quote that I absolutely live by. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.


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[Assistant] Everything was impossible until somebody did it. You can either hang around the people who tell you it can't be done until you're stupid for trying, or surround yourself with the people who inspire possibility. The people who are in this room.


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[Assistant] What's seen as impossible can become that new normal. And that's already starting to happen. First to-


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[Assistant] Do the things that inspire us, so we can inspire other people to do the things that inspire them. But we can't find that, unless we know what we're looking for. We have to do our work on ourself, be intentional about that, and make those discoveries. Because I imagine a world where 80% of people love the work they do. I mean, what would that look like? You know, how would, what would the innovation be like? How would you treat the people around you? Things would start to change.


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[Assistant] In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion's singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures, and this not so much for the sake of his reputation


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[Assistant] For indeed, it was when he was at his wit's end that his energy and his versatility were most admirable.


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[Assistant] But because where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded, and that the tale was left forever without a conclusion.


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[Assistant] Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred, the truth was still discovered.


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[Assistant] I have noted of some half-dozen cases of the kind. The adventure of the Musgrave ritual, and that which I am about to recount, are the two which present the strongest features of interest.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes is a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake.


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[Assistant] Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have ever seen.


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[Assistant] But he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy and he seldom bestirred himself save when there was some professional object to be served.


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[Assistant] Then he was absolutely untiring and indefatigable.


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[Assistant] That he should have kept himself in training under such circumstances is remarkable, but his diet was usually of the sparest, and his habits were simple to the verge of austerity.


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[Assistant] Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.


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[Assistant] One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spearheads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves.


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[Assistant] For two hours we rambled about together, in silence for the most part, as befits two men who know each other intimately.


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[Assistant] It was nearly five before we were back in Baker Street once more. Beg pardon, sir," said our page-boy, as he opened the door. There's been a gentleman here asking for you, sir. Holmes glanced reproachfully at me. So much for afternoon walks, said he. Has this gentleman gone, then? Yes, sir. Didn't you ask him in? Yes, sir. He came in. How long did he wait?


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[Assistant] Half an hour, sir. He was a very restless gentleman—a walking and a stamping all the time he was here. I was waiting outside the door, sir, and I could hear him. At last he outs into the passage, and he cries, "'Is that man never going to come?' Those were his very words, sir. "'You only need to wait a little longer,' says I.


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[Assistant] And with that he ups and he outs and all I could say wouldn't hold him back.


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[Assistant] Well, well, you did your best, said Holmes as we walked into our room. It's very annoying, though, Watson.


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[Assistant] I was badly in need of a case, and this looks from the man's impatience as if it were of importance. Hello! That's not your pipe on the table. He must have left his behind him.


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[Assistant] A nice old briar with a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber. I wonder how many real amber mouthpieces there are in London. Some people think that a fly in it is a sign.


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[Assistant] Well, I should put the original cost of the pipe at seven sixpence.


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[Assistant] Now it has, you see, been twice mended, once in the wooden stem and once in the amber.


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[Assistant] Each of these men's, done, as you observe, with silver brands, must have cost more than the pipe did originally.


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[Assistant] The man must value the pipe highly when he prefers to patch it up rather than buy a new one with the same money.


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[Assistant] Anything else? I asked, for Holmes was turning the pipe about in his hand and staring at it in his peculiar pensive way.


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[Assistant] He held it up and tapped on it with his long thin forefinger, as a professomite who was lecturing on a bone.


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[Assistant] Pipes are occasionally of extraordinary interest, said he.


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[Assistant] Nothing has more individuality, save perhaps watches and bootlaces.


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[Assistant] The indications here, however, are neither very marked nor very important. The owner is obviously a muscular man, left-handed with an excellent set of teeth, careless in his habits, and with no need to practice economy.


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[Assistant] My friend threw out the information in a very offhand way, but I saw that he cocked his eye at me to see if I had followed his reasoning.


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[Assistant] You think a man must be well to do if he smokes a seven shilling pipe, said I.