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CHAPTER X
EXTRACT FROM THE DIARY OF DR. WATSON
SO far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have arrived at a point in my narrative where I am compelled to abandon this method and to trust once more to my recollections, aided by the diary which I kept at the time. A few extracts from the latter will carry me on to those scenes which are indelibly fixed in every detail upon my memory. I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.
October 16th.—A dull and foggy day, with a drizzle of rain. The house is banked in with rolling clouds, which rise now and
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