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"Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this system of imprisonment?"
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"Yes, sir."
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"And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler."
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"That was it, sir."
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"But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his.
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