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"Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our client, rising.
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"I have solved it."
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"Eh? What was that?"
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"I say that I have solved it."
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"Where, then, is my wife?"
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"That is a detail which I shall speedily supply."
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Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed.
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"It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the case before our client came into the room."
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"My dear Holmes!"
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"I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I remarked before, which were quite as prompt.
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