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And now, lot number 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Of the dealings of Edward Bellingham with William Monckhouse Lee and of the cause of the great terror of Abercrombie Smith,

it may be that no absolute and final judgment will ever be delivered.

It is true that we have the full and declared narrative of Smith himself, and such corroboration

as he could look for, from Thomas Stiles the servant, from the Reverend Plumptree Peterson,

fellow of olds, and from such other people as chance to gain some passing glance at this

or that incident in a singular chain of events.

Yet in the main, the story must rest upon Smith alone, and the most will think that it is more likely

that one brain, however outwardly sane, has some subtle

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