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"How is that?" I asked when I had finished.
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"Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through."
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"Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently trying to your nerves."
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"Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so vague that it is a question whether justice will be done."
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"Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you to come to my friend, Mr.
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