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d each time I get to

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to visit Booker's pub where I regularly come

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ard of his name somewhere

annoying sod was an especially disting

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tive of Sheffield police, I'm more

like you're fr

you to Sheff

d a long way from London to investigate the murder

tation of detectives on the case

se me Mr Caine I have

at your that you've barel

se to you was killed, perhaps your wife, she was murdered by

at this very moment you still

r house from the nightmares and t

of my late wife's murder was kept fro

and your shoes are worn, for a gentleman such as yourself these unhygi

a

rious fellow,

I'm not

hered that from the examination of the other victims i examined, you could tel

ou save lives, we owe satefy to the people of B

this odd fellow, he was elo

know about my

been fol

couldn't le

in on my in

e a skilled surgeon who was dissecting a fresh cadaver for the effect of post mortem inju

during this little experiments, but he was more nervous th

ourne, are you alright"

raight at her, his bluish gra

uite alright than

nything" he asked, smi

oticed you've been working quite a while,

very

sounds of these very words

ndsome, his strikingly soft feature, his extremely charming demeanor and of tall, he was a cor

ction was craved by distinguished men

, oh such power in the hands of poor C

to my post now, have a jolly day Mr Melbo

ts, his bitter and burdened soul be

s father vanished from his life, when he was only ten, le

during his adolescent years, she would throw thr

r quite the same after the

was scarcely understood. until he met a unique fello

ning, he would study Medical text and anatomical drawings for hour

ude for linguistic

eak every romance languages and with

atiable desir

finished his biscuits and got u

way out the hospital he stopped to wave Mary th

weather was a bit cold, the

when he wouldn't have to wake up wit

manor house with Hears

om his father who by God was lo

place lit when Cecil got in Hear

Cecil, how was your

old,

y, multiple amputations and

you a hot bath, take your time and

hink I'd be able to funct

sir" Hearst r

earst most important job,

ays breaking through the

nto the bed where Cecil lay half awake, he lifts up his

thought, anot

e was too tired to dream, and th

ds he wished he could be as they were, oblivious of the greater calling, the absence of destiny on their shoulde

l, to prove he was not just a boy who got what he wan

ntly aware o

ways, he was surprised to find

s Arthur Caine,

a pathologist, althoug

ty for t

know that you're stil

of rage now, or no, let me hazard a guess you'rehere for the Va

our help to catch

I can see the headlines 'The

your sharp sense of hu

hunt" Arthur repl