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On

glancing

over

my

notes

of

the

seventy

odd

cases

in

which

I

have

during

the

last

eight

years

studied

the

methods

of

my

friend

Sherlock

Holmes,

I

find

many

tragic,

some

comic,

a

large

number

merely

strange,

but

none

commonplace;

for,

working

as

he

did

rather

for

the

love

of

his

art

than

for

the

acquirement

of

wealth,

he

refused

to

associate

himself

with

any

investigation

which

did

not

tend

towards

the

unusual,

and

even

the

fantastic.

Of

all

these

varied

cases,

however,

I

cannot

recall

any

which

presented

more

singular

features

than

that

which

was

associated

with

the

well-known

Surrey

family

of

the

Roylotts

of

Stoke

Moran.

The

events

in

question

occurred

in

the

early

days

of

my

association

with

Holmes,

when

we

were

sharing

rooms

as

bachelors

in

Baker

Street.

It

is

possible

that

I

might

have

placed

them

upon

record

before,

but

a

promise

of

secrecy

was

made

at

the

time,

from

which

I

have

only

been

freed

during

the

last

month

by

the

untimely

death

of

the

lady

to

whom

the

pledge

was

given.

It

is

perhaps

as

well

that

the

facts

should

now

come

to

light,

for

I

have

reasons

to

know

that

there

are

widespread

rumours

as

to

the

death

of

Dr.

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