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The Larrabees hold Alice
Faulkner captive in her home. A Crown Prince had an affair with
Alice's sister and wrote "indiscreet letters" to her
sister, who is now deceased. Alice has possession of the letters
and has hidden them. The Larrabees know the letters are very
valuable and are trying to coerce Alice into handing them over. |
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Holmes has tricked Alice
into revealing the hiding place of the letters. Larrabee holds
a gun on Holmes and Alice and demands they turn them over. |
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The Larrabees enlist the
aid of master criminal Professor Moriarity who welcomes the opportunity
to bring an end to Holmes. However, when Moriarity visits Holmes
on the pretense of ending their animosity, he is foiled at his
attempt to murder the great detective. "We shall meet again,
Holmes," he vows. |
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Alice goes a deserted cellar where
there is an old gas chamber to warn Holmes of the trap Moriarity
has set for him, but, instead, she is captured by Larrabee and
Moriarity's gang. |
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After rescuing Alice, Holmes
tells the thugs, "You surprise me, gentlemen, thinking that
you are going to delay our departure." |
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"One moment, my dear
fellow," he tells Larrabee as he is taken away by the police.
"Since the government will attend to all of your needs,
you won't require my money. Allow me to retrieve it." |
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Billy, Holmes' valet, poses
as a newspaper boy and finds out that Moriarity is posing as
the driver of the hansom Holmes is about to take. |
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Holmes captures Moriarity. |
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Although Holmes discovered
the hiding place of the letters at the beginning of the story,
he refused to take them until Alice offered them to him freely. |
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Holmes: "By now you must realize
the trick I've played on you. I arranged everything that happened
just now and I cannot hope that you will forgive me. So I will
leave and say goodbye forever!"
Alice: "Stay, Mr. Holmes.
We still have many things to say to each other."
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