
Arthur Conan Doyle · English
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Arthur Conan Doyle · English
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CHAPTER I. THE HEGIRA OF THE WESTS FROM EDINBURGH I, John Fothergill West, student of law in the University of St. Andrews, have endeavoured in the ensuing pages to lay my statement before the public in a concise and business-like fashion. It is not my wish to achieve literary success, nor have I any desire by the graces of my style, or by the artistic ordering of my incidents, to throw a deeper shadow over the strange passages of which I shall have to speak. My highest ambition is

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