As to the housekeeper, she had heard nothing on the night of the crime. If her master had a visitor he had himself admitted him.
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had been found in the valet’s boxes, but he explained that they had been presents from the deceased, and the housekeeper was able to corroborate the story.
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but his own explanation that he had walked part of the way seemed probable enough in view of the fineness of the night.
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He had many acquaintances among them, but few friends, and no one whom he loved. His habits were regular, his conduct inoffensive. His death was an absolute mystery and likely to remain so.
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He had been on intimate terms with the leading politicians of several countries.
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He would say nothing of the case, and it was from the papers that I learned the particulars of the inquest, and the arrest with the subsequent release of John Mitton, the valet of the deceased.
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“Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.”

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Micaela refused to focus on the body. Her mother whispered, “It’ll be all right.” Micaela understood. Her mother lied.

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“A brougham was coming down it, and there could be no mistaking those grey horses.”

🏉 “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”

📷 Library of Congress (1890)

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“A broad wheal from an old scar ran right across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a perpetual snarl.”

👄 “The Man with the Twisted Lip”

📷 Library of Congress (1906)

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It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts. Do you stay on guard, my good Watson, and receive any fresh visitors. I’ll join you at lunch if I am able.”
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