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Chapter 2

Holmes finds where the photograph is hidden

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  1. A quiet afternoon on Baker Street: the brown-brick house front, its black door and the pale-blinded first-floor window wait in thin daylight while small figures pass along the far end of the street.

    1 A quiet afternoon on Baker Street: the brown-brick house front, its black door and the pale-blinded first-floor window wait in thin daylight while small figures pass along the far end of the street.

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  2. In the firelit Baker Street sitting-room, a swaying, side-whiskered groom lurches through the doorway while Watson, half turned in his armchair, searches the red face for his friend's familiar features.

    2 In the firelit Baker Street sitting-room, a swaying, side-whiskered groom lurches through the doorway while Watson, half turned in his armchair, searches the red face for his friend's familiar features.

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  3. In bright late-morning light, Irene Adler bursts from the hall door of Briony Lodge and down the steps toward the landau before it has stopped, calling her order to the flustered coachman.

    3 In bright late-morning light, Irene Adler bursts from the hall door of Briony Lodge and down the steps toward the landau before it has stopped, calling her order to the flustered coachman.

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  4. In the hurried wedding at St. Monica's, Sherlock Holmes stands stiff and bewildered in his drunken groom's disguise as the unwilling witness.

    4 In the hurried wedding at St. Monica's, Sherlock Holmes stands stiff and bewildered in his drunken groom's disguise as the unwilling witness.

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  5. Holmes steps from his bedroom as an amiable, beaming Nonconformist clergyman, and Watson stares up from the fireside armchair in comic wonder.

    5 Holmes steps from his bedroom as an amiable, beaming Nonconformist clergyman, and Watson stares up from the fireside armchair in comic wonder.

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  6. Disguised as a clergyman, Sherlock Holmes buckles to the macadam with a palm clamped to his painted-red face.

    6 Disguised as a clergyman, Sherlock Holmes buckles to the macadam with a palm clamped to his painted-red face.

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  7. A gaslit detail of the hiding place in Briony Lodge's sitting-room: the small panel above the right bell-pull stands ajar, and the edge of a cabinet photograph is half drawn from the dark recess.

    8 A gaslit detail of the hiding place in Briony Lodge's sitting-room: the small panel above the right bell-pull stands ajar, and the edge of a cabinet photograph is half drawn from the dark recess.

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  8. Irene Adler, disguised as a slim youth in an ulster, strides past along the Baker Street pavement and tosses her sly farewell back at Holmes on the doorstep.

    9 Irene Adler, disguised as a slim youth in an ulster, strides past along the Baker Street pavement and tosses her sly farewell back at Holmes on the doorstep.

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  9. On the Baker Street doorstep, Sherlock Holmes turns toward the dim lamplit street, key forgotten in his hand, trying to place a voice he has heard before.

    10 On the Baker Street doorstep, Sherlock Holmes turns toward the dim lamplit street, key forgotten in his hand, trying to place a voice he has heard before.

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