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"I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face in my life."
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"Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon it the folk that we are in search of are to be found."
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"I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly.
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"Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is south, for the country is more deserted there."
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"And I say east," said my patient.
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"I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are several quiet little villages up there."
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"And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up any.
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