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"At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I reached the little dim-lit station aher eleven o'clock. I was the only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the horse could go."
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"One horse?" interjected Holmes.
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"Yes, only one."
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"Did you observe the colour?"
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"Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the carriage. It was a chestnut."
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"Tired-looking or fresh?"
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"Oh, fresh and glossy.
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