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A British subject
has disappeared
:12:05
under curious
circumstances.
:12:07
John Grayson,
:12:08
senior clerk in the firm
:12:10
of Farlow Nash and Farlow,
:12:13
solicitors,
:12:14
Chancery Lane,
:12:15
has not arrived
at his firm's
:12:17
representatives
in Washington.
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Foul play is suspected.
:12:21
Deplorable,
:12:22
simply deplorable.
:12:24
It's the sort of thing
:12:25
that shakes your
faith by George.
:12:27
I say, Holmes, shake
your faith in everything.
:12:29
You alarm me Watson.
:12:30
I've never seen you
affected by the news
:12:32
however startling.
:12:33
Startling, my dear
fellow, it's devastating.
:12:35
Seen the scores?
:12:36
The Navy got four
hundred and twenty-eight
:12:37
for six wickets.
:12:38
Against the Army at Lords.
:12:40
May I draw your
attention to the fact
:12:41
that really
momentous things
:12:43
are happening in
the world today?
:12:44
I know all about that.
:12:45
I'll get to them later on.
:12:47
Excuse me.
:12:48
Mind my egg old boy.
:12:49
Oh I'm sorry.
:12:50
With your consuming
interest in the game
:12:52
I'm surprised that you've
changed your mind
:12:53
about running up to
Lord's cricket grounds
this afternoon.
:12:55
Well it can't be helped.
:12:57
I had to put it off...
:12:59
how did you know
I'd changed my mind?
:13:00
Elementary my dear Watson.
:13:02
Invariably when you
go to a cricket match
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you fill your flask
with my best whiskey.
:13:06
Just now I
noted in passing
:13:08
that the flask was empty.
:13:09
A single whiff informed me
:13:11
that it had been
recently filled,
:13:12
obviously
after filling it,
:13:13
you would
pour the contents
:13:15
back into the bottle,
:13:16
therefore you would
have changed your mind
:13:17
about a cricket match.
:13:19
You amaze me Holmes.
:13:20
You're positively amazing.
:13:23
Come in Mrs. Hudson.
:13:26
Oh excuse me, Mr. Holmes,
:13:27
there's a gentleman
:13:28
and he's very insistent.
:13:30
Well I do declare
:13:31
he followed me
right up the stairs.
:13:32
Didn't I ask you to wait?
:13:34
My good woman you
may ask me to wait
:13:35
but not the
British Empire.
:13:37
Mr. Holmes, I must talk
to you immediately.
:13:40
How are you Mr. Ahren?
:13:41
That will be all now
thank you Mrs. Hudson.
:13:43
My good woman indeed.
:13:46
Ahren?
:13:47
I seem to know that name.
:13:48
Don't tell me,
my dear Watson,
:13:49
that you don't recognize
:13:50
Mr. Ahren of
the home office.
:13:52
Why yes of course.
:13:53
I knew you the
moment you came in.
:13:54
How are you Ahren?
:13:55
Did you see what the
Navy did to the Army
:13:57
at Lords yesterday?
:13:58
All right Watson, go
on with your breakfast.
:13:59
Mr. Holmes, I am
here on a matter