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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUHeFNMVOr
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcL3yqcw8H
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"It is cold then, which depresses you?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUS0PF5sSdJ
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" Ah, what can I say," my patient began," It is cold. But it is the knee too."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlyw6GzvYF
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"Knee?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcth7rL0SD8
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" Yes. I have been travelling much. From here to there. You comprehend?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsASQ5TkPk
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEN5U8C6fFh
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrApLbVvaVD
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"You see mon ami, it is your friend who gave me this knee."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjzdQqufFi
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I looked at him. Trying not to laugh at his ridiculous face, I asked, " My friend?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Q0VcoL9i7
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"Oh yes. Vera."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqUx38NkCd
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKhtFlWeGY
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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. 447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvWljJsg7C
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I unfolded the letter he had brought me. With sceptical eyes, I read:447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFglgZx5uA2
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Dear Jim,447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0TGKlCL51
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxU8n5qUZfV
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Yours, Vera.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0TIdh8IIt
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4kssSOhjz
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGJNhusKK4
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJEVJL7Oot
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I walked inside.
The sight I saw did not surprise me.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2Bsw03qcA
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGh1Wvzy1pT
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It was then that she took notice of me and, without looking up, greeted, " Hallo Jim."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMF7IMl4riy
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I went straight to the point.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBPGnvmtYu
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" Vera, you didn't write that letter, did you?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ScORa9EG2
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoRyVod9BR
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I laughed and sat on a chair.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RVY26rGgN
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"Was it so obvious though?", Vera asked after a while.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSR5ZGCWDmD
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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!"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuN8j9re0bH
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I advanced to calm her, but stopped as I realised it wasn't necessary.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsE1a7rn6s
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Instead, I asked," What's the experiment?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJir7UlaMJ3
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx14b1Ek9rL
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"And?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQSr6kkgUh
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" They turned out to be the fingerprints of the Sheriff himself."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LByas3s1j
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"Isn't that good? You got your man."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZ2m6g7Ncj
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"No. He can't have robbed."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOe8WDLNiyB
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"Why?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjOBcnjziK
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJE25ty0Z0
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I frowned and replied satirically," Well that makes perfect sense."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcUh6W9fIj
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"Doesn't it?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwX2DLrHuMf
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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?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoqEbRAl4C
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbmOCE2fiD
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"Few people take him seriously."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTMWB31ATV
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She went off into the kitchen, and I followed her.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFF20kGSOYu
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"Weren't you going to show me something interesting?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh01xlnnDLO
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She turned to me and smiled, excited.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIYYc1EJW5
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She said, " Glad you mentioned it."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsYXIxbL5D
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"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixUM6GOoSx
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She frowned and said, " You didn't ask."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGubdaUdUr
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Call me imprudent if you like, I thought.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJptm2FvL7p
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"On my table in the hall, there's a package. Bring it."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECibcIa9s2
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqMHsqsJNg
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Then I looked more closely at the package and notice a red tulip and gasped.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaeHHTlGtC
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"Why, it's the....the....Royal Mark!"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdlkqIerUt
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My voice shook as I fluttered like a fish out of water.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0T0f9nyiZw
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Vera smiled.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPAALKhrgl
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"It arrived today, and I have a feeling I know what's in it."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FU0C7e6AU
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At once, I opened the letter and found in my hand an inexplicable blank note, much to my amusement.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgDrBvNDfy
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I laughed as I remarked," Well Vera. What do you make of this?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxtyk7cmMs
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I half - expected her to frown and not chuckle as she did.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHwM1lTA5K
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" Blank note isn't it? How boring."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuj0ISDDkBB
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"What is it about?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkOmdpUNpV
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"You shall know - now."
Right at that moment, a man appeared at the door.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3ixjpR7Bh
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcYluCLYfl
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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.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCITBTOXn1B
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwVoDb892l
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We nodded.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmITKuvHZL
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" I believe, Monsieur, that you came by here a bit earlier today, say, a little after seven in the morning?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4GSeZEvNN
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The Colonel said, " Yes I did. I saw M. Shepperd coming here, so I assumed you had returned."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7eB9eCOKz
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" And is it safe to assume that you broke the plate over there?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YibBMGdpO
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She pointed to a broken plate kept neatly on one of the chairs.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XYmcxjCse
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoj9mHsvdk8
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Vera nodded.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYosovPBEQ
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37TJUKuSoV
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"Well then, the Ball is on Thursday. Today is Tuesday. You have two days to prepare."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHZPH3x4Oc
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Colonel Rose stood up.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVbyvBE43E
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He looked at Vera strangely again, eyeing me in the process too. Off he went.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMDydYWpYu
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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?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVa9i2ehQeW
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She frowned.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJfCOHieKM
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"Why, John? Of course I am."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQd0idkKquO
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpoS1axJyo
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"Don't be silly, John. I do know how to talk."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNBts9pftC
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"No. No you don't ", I said simply.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4Bo6yKcQQ
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"Well then, I'd just hover in the background."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPrbI0Ect3
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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?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXJ00jg5Sh
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I shrugged.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MBYwPoZll
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"Well I have read about them in some magazines and journals."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLTKXqq4YY
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"That is not enough."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpjtd0QJF8
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"Tell me then."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcn2OgbeqO
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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. "447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkD8kh9m2ue
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"That's some diversity."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6hpkbrCaq
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"And what happens when all such high - class diverse people are brought together under one estate?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3LYEak4St
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"Let me guess, scandals, controversies?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPHxMdDMlT
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOTrV3vZAI
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I smirked.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXWGLGwiMi
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"But you aren't interested in that, are you?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0tWWdL00g
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"Of course not. No. I am interested about one particular thing. Only one. Something which may change the Family forever."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NbdTo39nf
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"And that thing is...?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjw7Vr9m6E
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"John, do you know the patient who delivered to you my letter today?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzkWvKpr6q
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm48CmosO0C
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZgH7VJj6h
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"What?"447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBI7NuahV3p
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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."447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQAVijQ8T1
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