I will start my story with an apology to my daily journal readers. Though this account of mine is quite different from medical discoveries, it might clear up many theories and conspiracies regarding the famous case of the English Duke, which has been branded false by some and incredulous by many. As my dear friend Vera says, it is the conspiracy which interests people, far more than the truth. Yet I hope that this story will finally give rest to any other versions of it.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFrtdAvwoC
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It was the afternoon of the 10th of January, a cold and windy day, when I was fixing a patient of mine.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuRyr0KP2S
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"It is cold then, which depresses you?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3EpmAZx4U
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" Ah, what can I say," my patient began," It is cold. But it is the knee too."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5mnvGqNJt
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" Yes. I have been travelling much. From here to there. You comprehend?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qYdRfCTYk
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Before I spoke anything, my patient stood up, and for the first time, I was able to see his face that was hidden under his hat earlier.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqAtXCDEnv
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He had an egg shaped face, a glorious moustache and sparkling eyes. He reminded me of someone I had seen in the papers, but who, that I couldn't tell.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1JykHcx7D
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"You see mon ami, it is your friend who gave me this knee."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlkqtnXhlr
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I looked at him. Trying not to laugh at his ridiculous face, I asked, " My friend?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKlLinhof8
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"Oh yes. Vera."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZ6s2AsDYC
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Vera. My closest friend. She had a very odd job in this world. But her life was thrilling. Running here and there, chasing after this person and that person - oh what a life.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVDhSqnpCE
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The man put his hand in his pocket and clasped his cane with the other. As he turned around, he handed me a letter and bowed, signalling the end of our time and went out of my clinic.
I sat on my chair and gazed out of the door the man had gone out through. There was utter confusion on my face. 615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16ReRRDVsA
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I unfolded the letter he had brought me. With sceptical eyes, I read:615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCuTUpGbc5
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How are you? I am fine. Listen. Come and meet me on the 27th of this month. I have a very interesting thing for you to look forward to. It might knock you off the chair you are currently sitting in and also change your sceptical look to a look of awe.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaos4o5wKy
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Yours, Vera.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iwVJuRY6U
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That was her. Vera Clay, a friend of mine. She was a detective. I had first met her when I had stumbled upon a murder case involving a relative of mine.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpK4BDSAKtV
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I knew of her smart brain and so didn't care to think how she had accurately written in her letter that I would be sitting on my chair, with a sceptic look.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHziMIEM1SC
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The 27th arrived and I repaired myself to Vera's house in East London. It was a small flat, a rented one. I had lived in it with Vera for ten years before I had moved out to continue with my practice. The door was a little rusted and was unbolted.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdn7Y5voDF3
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I walked inside.
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Vera was leaning over her table, looking into her microscope, examining a sample.
I quietly walked over to her and placed my coat on the table beside her.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvTjnsSQG1
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It was then that she took notice of me and, without looking up, greeted, " Hallo Jim."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqYsdcMAH9
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" Vera, you didn't write that letter, did you?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgrcGmGdg6
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She dived even deeper in her microscope and just replied impassively, "Hmm...what? Oh the letter. No i didn't. I just dictated it to young Dave living across the street. I fancy he might've added some of his own bits, considering i had just dictated him one line."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxCXNGdemg
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I laughed and sat on a chair.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IJRxjLcKp
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"Was it so obvious though?", Vera asked after a while.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotXHevSiYT
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I smiled and replied, " Of course. I've known you for ten years. I know your style."
None of us spoke for a few minutes after that. It was typical of her. She only spoke if the other person did. She was not the type to start a conversation.
The silence was unnerving me. She was so engaged in her scientific work that I thought she had forgotten that she had called me here.
Frustrated, I asked, anything to get her to talk, " How did you know that i would be "sitting on my chair with a sceptic look"?"
She replied in a bored voice, " It was so obvious. I have know you for ten years as you say so yourself. Even young Dave got it."
The silence continued.
She perched herself back and slammed her fist on the table. The action was enough to surprise me, but not much - I was used to it.
Vera yelled, " Awful! Amazingly, brilliantly, boringly awful!"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLukpvC3mqO
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I advanced to calm her, but stopped as I realised it wasn't necessary.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmbv7juk7i
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Instead, I asked," What's the experiment?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsSMJc4287
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She looked at me for the first time and replied, " Oh Jim. You're still here. I thought you were off. The experiment? Nothing. Just the old sheriff who commissioned me to match fingerprints for a robbery case."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqvTu4zqxl
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" They turned out to be the fingerprints of the Sheriff himself."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqaTllToJh
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"No. He can't have robbed."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFqeqj3cry
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She frowned and replied, Oh why can't you just think Jim? He can't have robbed. That's because identifying fingerprints is something which is fairly simple. Surely a man as intelligent as the Sherrif won't turn himself in. Also, he was wearing boots on the day of the robbery."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6z1QoL3aEJ
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I frowned and replied satirically," Well that makes perfect sense."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JXKnworgj
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I have to say, sarcasm is wasted on Vera. All she wants is talk of business. Nothing else.
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"Oh just an old friend of mine. He is a detective too. Might be the greatest detective of today's times."
" He looks rather ridiculous to me."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Q9w2eLrCl
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She went off into the kitchen, and I followed her.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtodA9L0Np
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"Weren't you going to show me something interesting?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGprUOTjg2L
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She turned to me and smiled, excited.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwL3aQy7CoI
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She said, " Glad you mentioned it."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PXxUYvQfB
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"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfH3kF0hR5o
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She frowned and said, " You didn't ask."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAT4Ln6cUcv
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Call me imprudent if you like, I thought.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ543tp2OEsx
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"On my table in the hall, there's a package. Bring it."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdHmxRFOVG
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I handed it over to her, expecting a reaction, but all I got was nothing. Her eyes were uninteresting and bored, as if it was obvious what she was going to say next. Knowing her, she wouldn't say it in such a case.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSE0sXejAW
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Then I looked more closely at the package and notice a red tulip and gasped.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTF9rmjNaRf
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"Why, it's the....the....Royal Mark!"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZK2NPlBXdy
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My voice shook as I fluttered like a fish out of water.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkmkLgmqOa
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"It arrived today, and I have a feeling I know what's in it."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dYjN0kD71
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At once, I opened the letter and found in my hand an inexplicable blank note, much to my amusement.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0T7erXRCYH
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I laughed as I remarked," Well Vera. What do you make of this?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZANM0K11z
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I half - expected her to frown and not chuckle as she did.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDuhXWrCcC
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" Blank note isn't it? How boring."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKmgEsFquT
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"You shall know - now."
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Vera looked away to her work and said," Indeed. I see that you didn't notice the walking stick our visitor has left in the corner of the room. Indeed, our man has come back."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGrPmffwbl
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"Good morning sir," said the man, scratching his faint beard," You must be Vera Clay, the detective..."
I corrected my identity and assured him that he had indeed come to the right place.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmBn8peSpf
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When he met Vera, his face shined with surprise. It was not unusual. People hardly believed that she was the detective and I was not, owing to the fact that she was a woman, a fact that I found mildly absurd.
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"Madamoiselle, I have come to you on strict orders from the Royal Family. My name is Sanders Roy. That's Colonel Roy to you two."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4k77zAYEG
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" I believe, Monsieur, that you came by here a bit earlier today, say, a little after seven in the morning?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8n78Cou8o7
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The Colonel said, " Yes I did. I saw M. Shepperd coming here, so I assumed you had returned."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1aH5urGjd3
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" And is it safe to assume that you broke the plate over there?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyK1kewlBS
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She pointed to a broken plate kept neatly on one of the chairs.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3zeaK5tGK
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Colonel nodded," My apologies."
Vera smirked and said, " Don't be sorry. As it is, I am going to take my money from you. I believe you still have your change of €2 from the coffee you just had in the coffee shop opposite this flat?"
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"You came here two hours ago and left your cane. I assumed it was purposely done so as to notify me of your visit. You belong to the Royal Family meaning you'd have a long way to go back. So I assumed that you were taking lodging nearby. Look at the time now. It's 9:30. Most people would pass their time drinking a beverage. So I thought you'd be having coffee at the shop opposite. You mentioned just now that you saw my friend Jim coming here, confirming my assumption that you were at a place nearby. The cost of the coffee is €5 and I thought that you wouldn't take much money out with you, to not attract much attention. The €2 was just a wild guess."
For a moment there was silence. I, who knew of Vera's methods gave no reaction but just looked at the Colonel. He was speechless. His mouth was open as he looked at Vera as if she were an alien.
He cleared his throat and destroyed the silence.
"Well", he said with dignity," let us go back to our purpose of the conversation. I, as you know, am from the Royal Family and I have brought with myself a letter from them - which you have already received."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6A2iBPKOu
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"On behalf of Duke George, I would like to invite you, Madamoiselle Vera Clay, to the Royal Ball. You may invite a companion to come with you, and I assume it's going to be M. Shepperd here."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1Q6H0DnyK
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"Well then, the Ball is on Thursday. Today is Tuesday. You have two days to prepare."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4oVPcljGf
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Colonel Rose stood up.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QOpObL3v2
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He looked at Vera strangely again, eyeing me in the process too. Off he went.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclqhnLF8iR
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Vera, being herself, went into the kitchen without saying a word to me. I followed.
"Vera," I beckoned,"you aren't seriously going to the Ball, are you?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxWngbt9cD
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She frowned.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCPwWAVjkN
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"Why, John? Of course I am."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvZVKtCtEN
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"You do understand that there are going to be real people there. People you are going to have to talk to."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2DVeEtzCO
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"Don't be silly, John. I do know how to talk."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtNtWGEPf4
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"No. No you don't ", I said simply.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHERAJu31ya
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"Vera," I said," why do you want to go to this party? You don't usually go to such things. Why a sudden interest?"
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She began, " John, do you know the Royal Family?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjn1NysqAF7
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"Well I have read about them in some magazines and journals."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTCxAhhYp3
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"That is not enough."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRD8wa3uXC6
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"Tell me then."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0im48wz49
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" John, the Royal Family is large. There's the Duke, the twin sons - Micheal and Roger, the mother, the Aunt, the Colonel, the governess, the hunter, the writer, etc. "615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0E6IGwyPS7
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"That's some diversity."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4eXD1uuDB
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"And what happens when all such high - class diverse people are brought together under one estate?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIFOZIqwUw
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"Let me guess, scandals, controversies?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNhYbDxA89
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"Exactly. But more so. A violent clash of egos. Fights. Rivalries in everything - sports, poetry, music, women - you name it. Especially between the twins."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlb6J8UCess
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I smirked.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDb7snpB99
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"But you aren't interested in that, are you?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWFY6CaIt0
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"Of course not. No. I am interested about one particular thing. Only one. Something which may change the Family forever."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomNLcj6jX2
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"And that thing is...?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUdP8jdxxG
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"John, do you know the patient who delivered to you my letter today?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ianB7USDq
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"The egg faced, old man with that glorious moustache? I don't know him, but I fancy he's a hairdresser."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvu9ktmg0me
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"He's a world famous Belgian detective. Earlier this morning, I answered a summons from him and he told me about this matter."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0rR6LCwzG
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"What?"615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3RsOt8zxd
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"The Royal Family is a plethora of secrets and controversies. According to the great detective, whom you just met in your clinic, one such secret is the planned murder of one member of the Royal Family."615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AORtatjmc
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