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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.