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"Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from him.

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"No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!"

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"Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only posted to-day."

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"That is possible."

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"If so, much may have happened between."

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"Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the diningroom rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?"

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"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.


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