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Welcome to Sherlock Holmes short stories.

I'm Hugh Bonneville, and from the Noiser Podcast Network, this is The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual,

Part 2.

Last time, Holmes began recounting to Watson a mystery that helped establish him as London's premier gentleman detective.

Long before he met Watson, in the early years of his practice, Holmes was visited by an old

college acquaintance named Reginald Musgrave. Reginald told Holmes of a series of bizarre happenings

that had recently occurred at his family's manner home. The trouble began when he caught his faithful butler, Brunton,

breaking into his desk to study an ancient family document,

which detailed the so-called Musgrave ritual.

Reginald immediately dismissed Brunton for this breach of trust,

but the butler begged for time to sort out his

affairs before leaving. Reginald agreed, but just a few days later the butler disappeared

without a trace, leaving behind his clothes, money and his ex-lover, the housemaid Rachel Howells,

now hysterical with grief.

The case took an even darker turn when Rachel's footprints were found

leading to the edge of a cliff above a lake on the Musgrave estate.

Reginald assumed the poor girl had jumped to her death,

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