the rygate puzzle
it was some time before the health of my friend Mr Sherlock Holmes recovered from The Strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of 87. the whole question of the Netherlands Sumatra company and of the Colossal schemes of Baron moperties are too recent in the minds of the public and are too intimately concerned with politics and finance to be fitting subjects for this series of sketches they LED however in an indirect fashion to a singular and complex problem which gave my friend an opportunity of
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