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55 The aim for this chapter is to show how the LaTeX package
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64 package natively yet, we have to use some small hacks.
65 By reading this section it should be obvious how to do this.
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150 The Adventure of the Empty House
156 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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163 It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and
164 the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald
165 Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
166 The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came
167 out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that
168 occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong
169 that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.
170 Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those
171 missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain.
172 The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to
173 me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest
174 shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
175 Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think
176 of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and increduli
177 ty which utterly submerged my mind.
178 Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses
179 which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very
180 remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge
181 with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had
182 I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was
183 only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
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246 It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested
247 me deeply in crime, and that after his disappearance I never failed to
248 read with care the various problems which came before the public.
249 And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction,
250 to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
251 There was none, however, which appealed to me like this tragedy of Ronald
253 As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful
254 murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly
255 than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the
256 death of Sherlock Holmes.
257 There were points about this strange business which would, I was sure,
258 have specially appealed to him, and the efforts of the police would have
259 been supplemented, or more probably anticipated, by the trained observation
260 and the alert mind of the first criminal agent in Europe.
261 All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and
262 found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
263 At the risk of telling a twice-told tale, I will recapitulate the facts
264 as they were known to the public at the conclusion of the inquest.
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325 The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth,
326 at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
327 Adair's mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for
328 cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together
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363 The youth moved in the best society--had, so far as was known, no enemies
364 and no particular vices.
365 He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement
366 had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was
367 no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
368 For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle,
369 for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.
370 Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most
371 strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty
372 on the night of March 30, 1894.
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396 Ronald Adair was fond of cards--playing continually, but never for such
397 stakes as would hurt him.
398 He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
399 It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played
400 a rubber of whist at the latter club.
401 He had also played there in the afternoon.
406 The evidence of those who had played with him-- Mr.
407 Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran--showed that the game was whist,
408 and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
409 Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
410 His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way
412 He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious
413 player, and usually rose a winner.
414 It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had
415 actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some
416 weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
417 So much for his recent history as it came out at the inquest.
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449 The following examples shows how these can be used from LyX.
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460 before this bit, which has a preface text above the two columns:
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495 On the evening of the crime, he returned from the club exactly at ten.
496 His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
497 The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second
498 floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
499 She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
500 No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return
501 of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
502 Desiring to say good-night, she attempted to enter her son's room.
503 The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
505 Help was obtained, and the door forced.
506 The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
507 His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but
508 no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
509 On the table lay two bank notes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds
510 ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount.
511 There were some figures also upon a sheet of paper, with the names of some
512 club friends opposite to them, from which it was conjectured that before
513 his death he was endeavouring to make out his losses or winnings at cards.
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582 A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more
584 In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have
585 fastened the door upon the inside.
586 There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards
587 escaped by the window.
588 The drop was at least twenty feet, however, and a bed of crocuses in full
590 Neither the flowers nor the earth showed any sign of having been disturbed,
591 nor were there any marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated
592 the house from the road.
593 Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the
595 But how did he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to the window
596 without leaving traces.
597 Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable
598 shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.
599 Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within
600 a hundred yards of the house.
601 No one had heard a shot.
602 And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had
603 mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which
604 must have caused instantaneous death.
605 Such were the circumstances of the Park Lane Mystery, which were further
606 complicated by entire absence of motive, since, as I have said, young Adair
607 was not known to have any enemy, and no attempt had been made to remove
608 the money or valuables in the room.
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683 All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some
684 theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistanc
685 e which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigat
687 I confess that I made little progress.
688 In the evening I strolled across the Park, and found myself about six o'clock
689 at the Oxford Street end of Park Lane.
690 A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window,
691 directed me to the house which I had come to see.
692 A tall, thin man with coloured glasses, whom I strongly suspected of being
693 a plain-clothes detective, was pointing out some theory of his own, while
694 the others crowded round to listen to what he said.
695 I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to me to be absurd,
696 so I withdrew again in some disgust.
697 As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind
698 me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
699 I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them,
700 THE ORIGIN OF TREE WORSHIP, and it struck me that the fellow must be some
701 poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector
703 I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these
704 books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects
705 in the eyes of their owner.
706 With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved
707 back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng.
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804 My observations of No.
805 427 Park Lane did little to clear up the problem in which I was interested.
806 The house was separated from the street by a low wall and railing, the
807 whole not more than five feet high.
808 It was perfectly easy, therefore, for anyone to get into the garden, but
809 the window was entirely inaccessible, since there was no water pipe or
810 anything which could help the most active man to climb it.
811 More puzzled than ever, I retraced my steps to Kensington.
812 I had not been in my study five minutes when the maid entered to say that
813 a person desired to see me.
814 To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector,
815 his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his
816 precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
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908 You're surprised to see me, sir,
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912 said he, in a strange, croaking voice.
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919 I acknowledged that I was.
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930 Well, I've a conscience, sir, and when I chanced to see you go into this
931 house, as I came hobbling after you, I thought to myself, I'll just step
932 in and see that kind gentleman, and tell him that if I was a bit gruff
933 in my manner there was not any harm meant, and that I am much obliged to
934 him for picking up my books.
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949 You make too much of a trifle,
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958 May I ask how you knew who I was?
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973 Well, sir, if it isn't too great a liberty, I am a neighbour of yours, for
974 you'll find my little bookshop at the corner of Church Street, and very
975 happy to see you, I am sure.
976 Maybe you collect yourself, sir.
990 --a bargain, every one of them.
991 With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
992 It looks untidy, does it not, sir?
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1042 You'll have to go to the library to read the rest of the story.
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1049 or cheat like we did and find it at the Gutenberg project somewhere on the
1055 Believe it or not, but it's actually a bit of a cliff-hanger at this point
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