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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6dgzaLspp
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaEH0R9tzl
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"It is cold then, which depresses you?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibx0veAbu4
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" Ah, what can I say," my patient began," It is cold. But it is the knee too."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEitSs76jtv
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" Yes. I have been travelling much. From here to there. You comprehend?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKs2VZ3mv0h
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemLey87Bnx
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLFlUdkHGy
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"You see mon ami, it is your friend who gave me this knee."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL37PqLpqpQ
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I looked at him. Trying not to laugh at his ridiculous face, I asked, " My friend?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeQZoGYduH
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"Oh yes. Vera."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekHFMmv9yi
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3j7VuXVIn
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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. 548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhXCb2yp28
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I unfolded the letter he had brought me. With sceptical eyes, I read:548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnc3ck3Kti
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Dear Jim,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qDO78NxB5
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85Iea0CEZV
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Yours, Vera.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PrYGrsZ14
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbQ233vsC9
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcWsuPZRds
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAHpd9hrd5
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I walked inside.
The sight I saw did not surprise me.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3tTsReepr
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1TE5ldCBv
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It was then that she took notice of me and, without looking up, greeted, " Hallo Jim."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5v2QBGe4rq
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I went straight to the point.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWR1w9UXiC
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" Vera, you didn't write that letter, did you?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThNMK9ORt3
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJCxRfyo6k
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I laughed and sat on a chair.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZzk1DGKSj
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"Was it so obvious though?", Vera asked after a while.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBuw4YeoR4
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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!"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42g9Cq2aqF
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I advanced to calm her, but stopped as I realised it wasn't necessary.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bYYAPw6kQ
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Instead, I asked," What's the experiment?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jYDBrKVgr
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSlfvFB4RB
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"And?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyt09jT8YA
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" They turned out to be the fingerprints of the Sheriff himself."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCL9RSFea8
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"Isn't that good? You got your man."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡscAz5Jp2nN
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"No. He can't have robbed."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5EwckgZ2H
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"Why?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWionOsjbO
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTt8rol2LK4
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I frowned and replied satirically," Well that makes perfect sense."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbbkwn0Hyq
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"Doesn't it?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV5n1abDRT
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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?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIZHFDTLRa
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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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"Few people take him seriously."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LrgmRuDmY
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She went off into the kitchen, and I followed her.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnPjnHkPSj
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"Weren't you going to show me something interesting?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXv0KNxcHgy
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She turned to me and smiled, excited.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKo7RMeS5K9
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She said, " Glad you mentioned it."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4ueT4qhwI
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"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlFKgnDqnA
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She frowned and said, " You didn't ask."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgxmtkt8JT
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Call me imprudent if you like, I thought.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnXmFapmCH
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"On my table in the hall, there's a package. Bring it."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QJw3fuSYN
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkS1LTjY2Y
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Then I looked more closely at the package and notice a red tulip and gasped.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfASef4p6Eo
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"Why, it's the....the....Royal Mark!"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiLnrz0l8Mv
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My voice shook as I fluttered like a fish out of water.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWASYLEVDQa
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"It arrived today, and I have a feeling I know what's in it."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKstYVIIsa
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At once, I opened the letter and found in my hand an inexplicable blank note, much to my amusement.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWPFGVMai2
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I laughed as I remarked," Well Vera. What do you make of this?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgCJ8NLrZ5
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I half - expected her to frown and not chuckle as she did.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsSAfh2MxV
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" Blank note isn't it? How boring."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgRgCYVs01
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"What is it about?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEMIgLZRAD
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvuNIls2cq
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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.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnrlHyYeZM
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuUNMcJtf0
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" I believe, Monsieur, that you came by here a bit earlier today, say, a little after seven in the morning?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovwYzxQc3B
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The Colonel said, " Yes I did. I saw M. Shepperd coming here, so I assumed you had returned."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06isLwhTb4
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" And is it safe to assume that you broke the plate over there?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0FpQ6XBSy
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She pointed to a broken plate kept neatly on one of the chairs.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbSAxkWzql
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9HTm5cOrQ
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7Ighi51Oh
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"Well then, the Ball is on Thursday. Today is Tuesday. You have two days to prepare."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmeyoeGeCc
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Colonel Rose stood up.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNthLgmvUQC
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He looked at Vera strangely again, eyeing me in the process too. Off he went.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFjRwgIP8I
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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?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBihevvPJVs
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She frowned.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTql8PJXdP
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"Why, John? Of course I am."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gLDSVlNhU
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxf8V6psiuS
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"Don't be silly, John. I do know how to talk."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ehi3XrEAA
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"No. No you don't ", I said simply.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jUyoQreHM
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"Well then, I'd just hover in the background."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVvMI2yyjH
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsjcgoUwob
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She began, " John, do you know the Royal Family?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSEAftYxqO
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I shrugged.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqotUQamcV
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"Well I have read about them in some magazines and journals."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rs8SinfQj
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"That is not enough."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdlGNiV6Lv
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"Tell me then."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbyH4GufQj
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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. "548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qgnlTM5JV
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"That's some diversity."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2T5UWWCZn
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"And what happens when all such high - class diverse people are brought together under one estate?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarruH6IY1c
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"Let me guess, scandals, controversies?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJAIwEuaV5
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGtr8TfemM
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I smirked.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVraU9gZEJ
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"But you aren't interested in that, are you?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhOxeu9Sowb
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"Of course not. No. I am interested about one particular thing. Only one. Something which may change the Family forever."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDDJEeu3K5
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"And that thing is...?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3O1eNBpVP
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"John, do you know the patient who delivered to you my letter today?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJvSlyS3lQ
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqkel5OlIH
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5F4QHwixX
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"What?"548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzqHuCGoFD
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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."548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnPFNL0OKX
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