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"It is wonderful!" I exclaimed.

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"It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down considerably. The possession of a gray garment was a third point which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a gray cloak."

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"Certainly. "

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"And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could hardly wander."

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"Quite so."

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"Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal."

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"But how did you gain them?"

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"You know my method.


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