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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXk4judPHo5
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtFa3TJMEZ
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"It is cold then, which depresses you?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbTEIPRu58
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" Ah, what can I say," my patient began," It is cold. But it is the knee too."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgt1F9V0ky
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" Yes. I have been travelling much. From here to there. You comprehend?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr46Jfq4KM7
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I didn't. 452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3wVKnhLCP
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvw7RB1og3
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvepU4pgvBh
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"You see mon ami, it is your friend who gave me this knee."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEiJs7b0pYf
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I looked at him. Trying not to laugh at his ridiculous face, I asked, " My friend?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQt4pJZsA0
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"Oh yes. Vera."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQqvzZqsui
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZ19OcrHXu
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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. 452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXUatajqjx
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I unfolded the letter he had brought me. With sceptical eyes, I read:452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEBOllhhSi
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Dear Jim,452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UUv7s1Fnp
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmj2uyC4ini
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Yours, Vera.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGWo9GM9x9
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ29zb6EhE8
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAdVaOtkJH
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGJbWkpS3f
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I walked inside.
The sight I saw did not surprise me.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzC0mGjXfDC
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfH22QeWN6
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It was then that she took notice of me and, without looking up, greeted, " Hallo Jim."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXa7NeCpjh
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I went straight to the point.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuV49sVQ52
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" Vera, you didn't write that letter, did you?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVxwrIaJHe
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYMeh84yIN
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I laughed and sat on a chair.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWK2a2klsmg
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"Was it so obvious though?", Vera asked after a while.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1WTnJLigk
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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!"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFlXksLBZT
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I advanced to calm her, but stopped as I realised it wasn't necessary.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlGHpMQLvQ
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Instead, I asked," What's the experiment?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdPVkaUwBg
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9QqMaSbNt
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" They turned out to be the fingerprints of the Sheriff himself."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIZkuEz8st
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"Isn't that good? You got your man."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjg64rdDiXD
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"No. He can't have robbed."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdTSVXmpHa
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"Why?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54VvTfuSl4
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYhTkD0XnF
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I frowned and replied satirically," Well that makes perfect sense."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6w7LunFjL
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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?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY27X963sYu
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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."
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She went off into the kitchen, and I followed her.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5AsUyFusA
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"Weren't you going to show me something interesting?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWYv7kNuUL
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She turned to me and smiled, excited.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbM0rrAacF
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She said, " Glad you mentioned it."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTuTWGyQ0Y
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"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOers4V1Ao
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She frowned and said, " You didn't ask."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFnu4VUNcz
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Call me imprudent if you like, I thought.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIUeXTnl4i
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"On my table in the hall, there's a package. Bring it."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzVxedyfWH
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRS5XuL2nUQ
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Then I looked more closely at the package and notice a red tulip and gasped.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxYyB5exlt
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"Why, it's the....the....Royal Mark!"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8Sq41K0Qp
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My voice shook as I fluttered like a fish out of water.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPWZIehYwf
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Vera smiled.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjnXlBZeXr
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"It arrived today, and I have a feeling I know what's in it."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfwlnl39cF
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At once, I opened the letter and found in my hand an inexplicable blank note, much to my amusement.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡug7yC8OvEJ
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I laughed as I remarked," Well Vera. What do you make of this?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HZLlUbevI
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I half - expected her to frown and not chuckle as she did.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4vNHQQcuG
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" Blank note isn't it? How boring."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYUjjbFFVb
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnunn3PH8Of
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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.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHavXHrcYqI
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEYlTY0r9d
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" I believe, Monsieur, that you came by here a bit earlier today, say, a little after seven in the morning?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaKVfn3Jye
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The Colonel said, " Yes I did. I saw M. Shepperd coming here, so I assumed you had returned."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfdtpAYJYD
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" And is it safe to assume that you broke the plate over there?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJ9FjLrSmD
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She pointed to a broken plate kept neatly on one of the chairs.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkDHC1zDE2
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2GZ2cYaU9
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgA9kPLl514
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"Well then, the Ball is on Thursday. Today is Tuesday. You have two days to prepare."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpN43vsf85A
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Colonel Rose stood up.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0F0QBxcsc
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He looked at Vera strangely again, eyeing me in the process too. Off he went.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHipdKIAaA
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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?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhYEj6mXVB
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She frowned.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HIe034R1d
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"Why, John? Of course I am."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3woTeGBHuE
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoOSJcK0uz
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"Don't be silly, John. I do know how to talk."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZKRdDCw7a
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"No. No you don't ", I said simply.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zMKSGmuJh
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"Well then, I'd just hover in the background."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuHZATAEwsu
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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?"
Vera sighed. She pulled out a chair and ordered," Sit."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhHOoPuYSu
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She began, " John, do you know the Royal Family?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQIAMkwr1T
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I shrugged.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1t352ZtY0
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"Well I have read about them in some magazines and journals."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlx7RB8arwy
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"That is not enough."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjU6PP8zeZ9
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"Tell me then."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21sCFEq13V
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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. "452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduXu0JDh2G
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"That's some diversity."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNjAamxIbw
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"And what happens when all such high - class diverse people are brought together under one estate?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUsBdB7zoc
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"Let me guess, scandals, controversies?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3g3ZoYSSeS
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4LSj0BjFe
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I smirked.452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhX6HhpTi7i
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"But you aren't interested in that, are you?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLi8dh8EiMs
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"Of course not. No. I am interested about one particular thing. Only one. Something which may change the Family forever."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZk8siV7i3
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"And that thing is...?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFKJCyyfvT
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"John, do you know the patient who delivered to you my letter today?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobKlls1gjI
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNwSWsVvsn
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkG7cwjhhY2
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"What?"452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnz38YXLtkk
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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."452Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQCqQhFZsg
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