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"It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in the corner. "I have had nothing else to do."
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"It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding?"
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"Oh, yes, with the deepest interest."
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"That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. This is what he says:
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My Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes:
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"Lord Backwater tells me that I may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion.
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