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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPCwAspidy
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNc7LV6Mq1
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"It is cold then, which depresses you?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSwX6qOuVO
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" Ah, what can I say," my patient began," It is cold. But it is the knee too."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXcM8YNAdv
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"Knee?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJDjyokF9y
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" Yes. I have been travelling much. From here to there. You comprehend?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEo3SCcvTDZ
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I didn't. 552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2jLBOJORV
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhdMiZHYj4
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFFgMfZg4Z
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"You see mon ami, it is your friend who gave me this knee."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6GdMJWtYM
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I looked at him. Trying not to laugh at his ridiculous face, I asked, " My friend?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4e6uxX2oI
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"Oh yes. Vera."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi89IsU7lmP
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJELP9iKwk
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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. 552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhGbhQsCXl
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I unfolded the letter he had brought me. With sceptical eyes, I read:552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPWd8rqeHt
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Dear Jim,552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHilloXk2y
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5hwfnyAEa
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Yours, Vera.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5BXzsmHKi
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWXpQus0aL
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6VRdLhvKw
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDI9RMRlW9A
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I walked inside.
The sight I saw did not surprise me.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzoQEqD7hX
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqawT7rFtB
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It was then that she took notice of me and, without looking up, greeted, " Hallo Jim."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqr3n8ogEh
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I went straight to the point.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcxzEJUSU6
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" Vera, you didn't write that letter, did you?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIajDJrAyPF
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPG99FQz2XG
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I laughed and sat on a chair.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteHoUcz7rp
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"Was it so obvious though?", Vera asked after a while.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzskFi9pMS3
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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!"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qCgwzzmku
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I advanced to calm her, but stopped as I realised it wasn't necessary.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuk4ESyc19O
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Instead, I asked," What's the experiment?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpLkHZubcJ
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiAMnK6Y27
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"And?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZg8We7xHn
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" They turned out to be the fingerprints of the Sheriff himself."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0ubbL9NsW
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"Isn't that good? You got your man."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZ6dZYHpIw
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"No. He can't have robbed."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yU7Zi2PDF
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"Why?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTMWfEMEBZ
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiIaTYtoLz
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I frowned and replied satirically," Well that makes perfect sense."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfEd1wTbqq
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"Doesn't it?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctilZYPoqY
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I have to say, sarcasm is wasted on Vera. All she wants is talk of business. Nothing else.
So I asked, " Who was that man you sent the letter with?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCFCUDFly6
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKnQ1eqcU6
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"Few people take him seriously."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0SRkEWMQn
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She went off into the kitchen, and I followed her.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViPPmCkEdz
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"Weren't you going to show me something interesting?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjo96wPn9KG
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She turned to me and smiled, excited.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBXp1t1yGs
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She said, " Glad you mentioned it."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuMtx4jwqQ
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"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMuQ9aY8cU
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She frowned and said, " You didn't ask."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsmApxKkuU
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Call me imprudent if you like, I thought.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnAtNGe5E6
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"On my table in the hall, there's a package. Bring it."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctYGV9t9em
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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.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05lOjpE7yK
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Then I looked more closely at the package and notice a red tulip and gasped.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10atn7fqha
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"Why, it's the....the....Royal Mark!"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWbI33v3Aa
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My voice shook as I fluttered like a fish out of water.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe69zBS9l0F
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Vera smiled.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGtQ6RFP6x
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"It arrived today, and I have a feeling I know what's in it."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pHevVLWK6
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At once, I opened the letter and found in my hand an inexplicable blank note, much to my amusement.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9e7PRvPe8Q
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I laughed as I remarked," Well Vera. What do you make of this?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTto4HapI1S
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" Blank note isn't it? How boring."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLT2wmyyPPj
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"What is it about?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSnWhYNQZy
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4B42szxZ9q
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"Good morning sir," said the man, scratching his faint beard," You must be Vera Clay, the detective..."
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjocA2t85Z
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We nodded.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQeRi0CiMB
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" I believe, Monsieur, that you came by here a bit earlier today, say, a little after seven in the morning?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8SxzCKQ2W
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The Colonel said, " Yes I did. I saw M. Shepperd coming here, so I assumed you had returned."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwn4LxycrgN
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" And is it safe to assume that you broke the plate over there?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzrYw2RXka
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She pointed to a broken plate kept neatly on one of the chairs.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKt6269RvsG
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1xlQyk1oW
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2FKYLZOupV
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"Well then, the Ball is on Thursday. Today is Tuesday. You have two days to prepare."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqP11wzg9p
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Colonel Rose stood up.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyIo3025gD
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He looked at Vera strangely again, eyeing me in the process too. Off he went.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCM273c0CTP
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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?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXSEJrAR1H
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She frowned.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCYggGQAaF
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"Why, John? Of course I am."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4VbGC5vJ3
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0ip80P7HA
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"Don't be silly, John. I do know how to talk."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1fhqXMy12
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"No. No you don't ", I said simply.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FwCLRRlP1
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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?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjx2iG47Cki
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I shrugged.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJzG5ywQBO
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"Well I have read about them in some magazines and journals."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQLofBIO8K
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"That is not enough."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGuo5jSuZs
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"Tell me then."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDo3ZV84YbT
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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. "552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CS6BlbtJ4
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"That's some diversity."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0d43tW7nx0
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"And what happens when all such high - class diverse people are brought together under one estate?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1ygn61oEf
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"Let me guess, scandals, controversies?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxV5QCIuZgf
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNNJKn4684
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I smirked.552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeSEBw69qR
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"But you aren't interested in that, are you?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HnpC86ZrZ
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"Of course not. No. I am interested about one particular thing. Only one. Something which may change the Family forever."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoztpsvQIEI
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"And that thing is...?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNRm3z4XxF
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"John, do you know the patient who delivered to you my letter today?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxTaCOuZ87
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRyqZGn2TH
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5x1OVgE4Pg
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"What?"552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp92ZZ0EjSO
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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."552Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9TTELln8o
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