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54 The aim for this chapter is to show how the LaTeX package
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63 package natively yet, we have to use some small hacks.
64 By reading this section it should be obvious how to do this.
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149 The Adventure of the Empty House
155 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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162 It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and
163 the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald
164 Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
165 The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came
166 out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that
167 occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong
168 that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.
169 Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those
170 missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain.
171 The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to
172 me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest
173 shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
174 Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think
175 of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and increduli
176 ty which utterly submerged my mind.
177 Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses
178 which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very
179 remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge
180 with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had
181 I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was
182 only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
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245 It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested
246 me deeply in crime, and that after his disappearance I never failed to
247 read with care the various problems which came before the public.
248 And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction,
249 to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
250 There was none, however, which appealed to me like this tragedy of Ronald
252 As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful
253 murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly
254 than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the
255 death of Sherlock Holmes.
256 There were points about this strange business which would, I was sure,
257 have specially appealed to him, and the efforts of the police would have
258 been supplemented, or more probably anticipated, by the trained observation
259 and the alert mind of the first criminal agent in Europe.
260 All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and
261 found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
262 At the risk of telling a twice-told tale, I will recapitulate the facts
263 as they were known to the public at the conclusion of the inquest.
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324 The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth,
325 at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
326 Adair's mother had returned from Australia to undergo the operation for
327 cataract, and she, her son Ronald, and her daughter Hilda were living together
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362 The youth moved in the best society--had, so far as was known, no enemies
363 and no particular vices.
364 He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement
365 had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was
366 no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
367 For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle,
368 for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.
369 Yet it was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came, in most
370 strange and unexpected form, between the hours of ten and eleven-twenty
371 on the night of March 30, 1894.
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395 Ronald Adair was fond of cards--playing continually, but never for such
396 stakes as would hurt him.
397 He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
398 It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played
399 a rubber of whist at the latter club.
400 He had also played there in the afternoon.
405 The evidence of those who had played with him-- Mr.
406 Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran--showed that the game was whist,
407 and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
408 Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
409 His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way
411 He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious
412 player, and usually rose a winner.
413 It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had
414 actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some
415 weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
416 So much for his recent history as it came out at the inquest.
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447 has several customizing variables.
448 The following examples shows how these can be used from LyX.
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494 On the evening of the crime, he returned from the club exactly at ten.
495 His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
496 The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second
497 floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
498 She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
499 No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return
500 of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
501 Desiring to say good-night, she attempted to enter her son's room.
502 The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
504 Help was obtained, and the door forced.
505 The unfortunate young man was found lying near the table.
506 His head had been horribly mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but
507 no weapon of any sort was to be found in the room.
508 On the table lay two bank notes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds
509 ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount.
510 There were some figures also upon a sheet of paper, with the names of some
511 club friends opposite to them, from which it was conjectured that before
512 his death he was endeavouring to make out his losses or winnings at cards.
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581 A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more
583 In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have
584 fastened the door upon the inside.
585 There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards
586 escaped by the window.
587 The drop was at least twenty feet, however, and a bed of crocuses in full
589 Neither the flowers nor the earth showed any sign of having been disturbed,
590 nor were there any marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated
591 the house from the road.
592 Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the
594 But how did he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to the window
595 without leaving traces.
596 Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable
597 shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.
598 Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within
599 a hundred yards of the house.
600 No one had heard a shot.
601 And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had
602 mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which
603 must have caused instantaneous death.
604 Such were the circumstances of the Park Lane Mystery, which were further
605 complicated by entire absence of motive, since, as I have said, young Adair
606 was not known to have any enemy, and no attempt had been made to remove
607 the money or valuables in the room.
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682 All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some
683 theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistanc
684 e which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigat
686 I confess that I made little progress.
687 In the evening I strolled across the Park, and found myself about six o'clock
688 at the Oxford Street end of Park Lane.
689 A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window,
690 directed me to the house which I had come to see.
691 A tall, thin man with coloured glasses, whom I strongly suspected of being
692 a plain-clothes detective, was pointing out some theory of his own, while
693 the others crowded round to listen to what he said.
694 I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to me to be absurd,
695 so I withdrew again in some disgust.
696 As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind
697 me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
698 I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them,
699 THE ORIGIN OF TREE WORSHIP, and it struck me that the fellow must be some
700 poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector
702 I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these
703 books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects
704 in the eyes of their owner.
705 With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved
706 back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng.
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803 My observations of No.
804 427 Park Lane did little to clear up the problem in which I was interested.
805 The house was separated from the street by a low wall and railing, the
806 whole not more than five feet high.
807 It was perfectly easy, therefore, for anyone to get into the garden, but
808 the window was entirely inaccessible, since there was no water pipe or
809 anything which could help the most active man to climb it.
810 More puzzled than ever, I retraced my steps to Kensington.
811 I had not been in my study five minutes when the maid entered to say that
812 a person desired to see me.
813 To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector,
814 his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his
815 precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
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907 You're surprised to see me, sir,
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911 said he, in a strange, croaking voice.
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929 Well, I've a conscience, sir, and when I chanced to see you go into this
930 house, as I came hobbling after you, I thought to myself, I'll just step
931 in and see that kind gentleman, and tell him that if I was a bit gruff
932 in my manner there was not any harm meant, and that I am much obliged to
933 him for picking up my books.
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948 You make too much of a trifle,
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957 May I ask how you knew who I was?
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972 Well, sir, if it isn't too great a liberty, I am a neighbour of yours, for
973 you'll find my little bookshop at the corner of Church Street, and very
974 happy to see you, I am sure.
975 Maybe you collect yourself, sir.
989 --a bargain, every one of them.
990 With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
991 It looks untidy, does it not, sir?
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1041 You'll have to go to the library to read the rest of the story.
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1048 or cheat like we did and find it at the Gutenberg project somewhere on the
1054 Believe it or not, but it's actually a bit of a cliff-hanger at this point
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