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62 The aim for this chapter is to show how the LaTeX package
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167 The Adventure of the Empty House
173 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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180 It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and
181 the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald
182 Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
183 The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came
184 out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that
185 occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong
186 that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.
187 Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those
188 missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain.
189 The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to
190 me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest
191 shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
192 Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think
193 of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and increduli
194 ty which utterly submerged my mind.
195 Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses
196 which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very
197 remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge
198 with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had
199 I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was
200 only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
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263 It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested
264 me deeply in crime, and that after his disappearance I never failed to
265 read with care the various problems which came before the public.
266 And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction,
267 to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
268 There was none, however, which appealed to me like this tragedy of Ronald
270 As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful
271 murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly
272 than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the
273 death of Sherlock Holmes.
274 There were points about this strange business which would, I was sure,
275 have specially appealed to him, and the efforts of the police would have
276 been supplemented, or more probably anticipated, by the trained observation
277 and the alert mind of the first criminal agent in Europe.
278 All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and
279 found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
280 At the risk of telling a twice-told tale, I will recapitulate the facts
281 as they were known to the public at the conclusion of the inquest.
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342 The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth,
343 at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
344 Adair's mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for
345 cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together
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380 The youth moved in the best society--had, so far as was known, no enemies
381 and no particular vices.
382 He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement
383 had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was
384 no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
385 For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle,
386 for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.
387 Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most
388 strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty
389 on the night of March 30, 1894.
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413 Ronald Adair was fond of cards--playing continually, but never for such
414 stakes as would hurt him.
415 He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
416 It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played
417 a rubber of whist at the latter club.
418 He had also played there in the afternoon.
423 The evidence of those who had played with him-- Mr.
424 Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran--showed that the game was whist,
425 and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
426 Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
427 His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way
429 He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious
430 player, and usually rose a winner.
431 It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had
432 actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some
433 weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
434 So much for his recent history as it came out at the inquest.
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468 The following examples shows how these can be used from LyX.
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479 before this bit, which has a preface text above the two columns:
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514 On the evening of the crime, he returned from the club exactly at ten.
515 His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
516 The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second
517 floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
518 She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
519 No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return
520 of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
521 Desiring to say good-night, she attempted to enter her son's room.
522 The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
524 Help was obtained, and the door forced.
525 The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
526 His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but
527 no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
528 On the table lay two bank notes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds
529 ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount.
530 There were some figures also upon a sheet of paper, with the names of some
531 club friends opposite to them, from which it was conjectured that before
532 his death he was endeavouring to make out his losses or winnings at cards.
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560 but only through LaTeX commands inside the parameters for the
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603 A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more
605 In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have
606 fastened the door upon the inside.
607 There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards
608 escaped by the window.
609 The drop was at least twenty feet, however, and a bed of crocuses in full
611 Neither the flowers nor the earth showed any sign of having been disturbed,
612 nor were there any marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated
613 the house from the road.
614 Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the
616 But how did he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to the window
617 without leaving traces.
618 Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable
619 shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.
620 Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within
621 a hundred yards of the house.
622 No one had heard a shot.
623 And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had
624 mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which
625 must have caused instantaneous death.
626 Such were the circumstances of the Park Lane Mystery, which were further
627 complicated by entire absence of motive, since, as I have said, young Adair
628 was not known to have any enemy, and no attempt had been made to remove
629 the money or valuables in the room.
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710 All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some
711 theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistanc
712 e which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigat
714 I confess that I made little progress.
715 In the evening I strolled across the Park, and found myself about six o'clock
716 at the Oxford Street end of Park Lane.
717 A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window,
718 directed me to the house which I had come to see.
719 A tall, thin man with coloured glasses, whom I strongly suspected of being
720 a plain-clothes detective, was pointing out some theory of his own, while
721 the others crowded round to listen to what he said.
722 I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to me to be absurd,
723 so I withdrew again in some disgust.
724 As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind
725 me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
726 I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them,
727 THE ORIGIN OF TREE WORSHIP, and it struck me that the fellow must be some
728 poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector
730 I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these
731 books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects
732 in the eyes of their owner.
733 With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved
734 back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng.
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835 My observations of No.
836 427 Park Lane did little to clear up the problem in which I was interested.
837 The house was separated from the street by a low wall and railing, the
838 whole not more than five feet high.
839 It was perfectly easy, therefore, for anyone to get into the garden, but
840 the window was entirely inaccessible, since there was no water pipe or
841 anything which could help the most active man to climb it.
842 More puzzled than ever, I retraced my steps to Kensington.
843 I had not been in my study five minutes when the maid entered to say that
844 a person desired to see me.
845 To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector,
846 his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his
847 precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
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941 You're surprised to see me, sir,
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945 said he, in a strange, croaking voice.
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963 Well, I've a conscience, sir, and when I chanced to see you go into this
964 house, as I came hobbling after you, I thought to myself, I'll just step
965 in and see that kind gentleman, and tell him that if I was a bit gruff
966 in my manner there was not any harm meant, and that I am much obliged to
967 him for picking up my books.
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982 You make too much of a trifle,
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991 May I ask how you knew who I was?
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1006 Well, sir, if it isn't too great a liberty, I am a neighbour of yours, for
1007 you'll find my little bookshop at the corner of Church Street, and very
1008 happy to see you, I am sure.
1009 Maybe you collect yourself, sir.
1012 British\InsetSpace ~
1023 --a bargain, every one of them.
1024 With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
1025 It looks untidy, does it not, sir?
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1075 You'll have to go to the library to read the rest of the story.
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1082 or cheat like we did and find it at the Gutenberg project somewhere on the
1088 Believe it or not, but it's actually a bit of a cliff-hanger at this point
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