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| | "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, "here is a madman coming along. |
 | | You suppose that your son came down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine. |
 | | As he loved his cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful one. |
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