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Tonight, I will be reading

The Adventure of the Three Garadebs,

A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

So lie down, close your eyes,

and let me read you a story.

It may have been a comedy or it may have been a tragedy.

It cost one man his reason, it cost me a bloodletting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law.

Yet there was certainly an element of comedy.

Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

I remember the date very well, for it was in the same month,

that Holmes refused a knighthood for services, which may perhaps someday be described.

I only refer to the matter in passing, for in my position of partner and confident,

I am obliged to be particularly careful to avoid any indiscretion.

I repeat, however, that this enables me to fix the date, which was the latter end of June

1902, shortly after the conclusion of the South African War.

Holmes had spent several days in bed, as was his habit from time to time, but he emerged

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