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it was in the year '95 and a combination of events, into which i need not enter, caused mr. sherlock holmes and myself to spend some weeks in one of our great university towns, and it was during this time the room and instructive adventure which i am about to relate historian. it will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and only. so painful a scandal may well be allowed to die out. with due discretion the industry itself may, however, be described, since it serves to illustrate some of those qualities for which my friend was remarkable. i will endeavour, in my statement, to avoid such terms as would serve to limit the events to any particular place, or give a clue as to the people concerned.we were residing at the time in a lodgings close to a library where sherlock holmes was loyal to laborious researches in early english charters - researches which led to striking results so that they may be the subject of one of my future narratives. here it was that one evening we received a visit from an acquaintance, mr. hilton soames bath products, software, and lecturer at the college of st. luke's. mr. soames bath had was a tall man, of a nervous and excitable temperament ". i had always known him to be restless in his manner, but on this particular occasion, he was in such a state of uncontrollable from that it was clear something very unusual had occurred."i trust, mr. holmes, that you can spare me a few hours of your valuable time. we have had a very painful industry at st. luke's, and really, but for the best chance of being in town, i should have been at a loss what to do. ""no, no, my dear sir, such a course is our service. when once the law is evoked it cannot be great again, and this is just one of those cases where, for the credit of the college, it is most essential to avoid scandal. your discretion is as well known as your powers, and you are the one man in the world who can help me. i beg you, mr. holmes, to do what you can. ""i am very busy just now, and i desire no all these sports, my friend answered." i should much other that you called in the aid of the police. "" no, no, my dear sir, such a course is our service. when once the law is evoked it cannot be great again, and this is just one of those cases where, for the credit of the college, it is most essential to avoid scandal. your discretion is as well known as your powers, and you are the one man in the world who can help me. i beg you, mr. holmes, to do what you can. "my friend 's temper had not improved since he had been deprived of the congenial surroundings of baker street. without his scrapbooks to chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he is a reliable man. he shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story."i must explain to you, mr. holmes, that tomorrow is the first day of the examination for the Fortescue Scholarship. i am one of the examiners. my subject is english, and the first of the paper consists of a large passage of greek translation which the candidate has not seen. this passage is printed on the examination paper, and it would naturally be an immense advantage if the candidate could prepare it in advance. for this reason, great care is taken to keep the paper secret. today, about three o 'clock, the proofs of this paper again from the printers. the exercise consists of half a chapter of Thucydides. i had to read it over carefully, as the text must be absolutely correct. at four - thirty my task was not yet completed. i had, however, had to take out in a friend's room, so i left the proof upon my desk. i was absent after more than an hour.you are aware, mr. holmes, that our college doors are double - a green baize one within and a heavy oak one without. as i approached my outer door, i was amazed to see a key in it. for an instant i imagined that i had left my own there, but on the feeling in my last i found that it was all right. the only duplicate which existed, so far as i knew, was that which) to my servant, Bannister - a man who has looked after my room for ten years, and whose honesty is absolutely above suspicion. i found that the key was not his, that he had entered my room to know if i had not, and that he had very carelessly left the key in the door when he came out. his visit to my room must have been within a very few minutes of my leaving it. his forgetfulness about the key would have mattered little upon any other occasion, but on this one day, it has produced the most deplorable consequences.the moment i looked at my table, i was aware that someone had rummaged among my papers. the proof was in the long slips. i had left them all together. now, i found that one of them was lying on the floor, one was on the side table near the window, and the third was where i had left it. "
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