Then I tried alternate words, but neither 'the of for' nor 'supply game London' promised to throw any light upon it.
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"And then in an instant the key of the riddle was in my hands, and I saw that every third word, beginning with the first, would give a message which might well drive old Trevor to despair.
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"It was short and terse, the warning, as I now read it to my companion:
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"'The game is up. Hudson has told all. Fly for your life.'
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"Victor Trevor sank his face into his shaking hands. 'It must be that, I suppose,' said he. "This is worse than death, for it means disgrace as well. But what is the meaning of these "head-keepers" and "hen-pheasants"?'
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"'It means nothing to the message, but it might mean a good deal to us if we had no other means of discovering the sender.
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You see that he has begun by writing "The… game… is," and so on.
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Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space.
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He would naturally use the first words which came to his mind, and if there were so many which referred to sport among them, you may be tolerably sure that he is either an ardent shot or interested in breeding.
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Do you know anything of this Beddoes?'
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"'Why, now that you mention it,' said he, 'I remember that my poor father used to have an invitation from him to shoot over his preserves every autumn.'
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"'Then it is undoubtedly from him that the note comes,' said I. 'It only remains for us to find out what this secret was which the sailor Hudson seems to have held over the heads of these two wealthy and respected men.'
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"'Alas, Holmes, I fear that it is one of sin and shame!' cried my friend.
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But from you I shall have no secrets.
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Here is the statement which was drawn up by my father when he knew that the danger from Hudson had become imminent.
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I found it in the Japanese cabinet, as he told the doctor.
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Take it and read it to me, for I have neither the strength nor the courage to do it myself.'
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"These are the very papers, Watson, which he handed to me, and I will read them to you, as I read them in the old study that night to him.
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They are endorsed outside, as you see, 'Some particulars of the voyage of the barkGloria Scott, from her leaving Falmouth on the 8th October, 1855, to her destruction in N. Lat. 15 degrees 20', W. Long. 25 degrees 14' on Nov. 6th.'
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It is in the form of a letter, and runs in this way:
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"'My dear, dear son, now that approaching disgrace begins to darken the closing years of my life, I can write with all truth and honesty that it is not the terror of the law, it is not the loss of my position in the county, nor is it my fall in the eyes of all who have known me, which cuts me to the heart; but it is the thought that you should come to blush for me-you who love me and who have seldom, I hope, had reason to do other than respect me.
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But if the blow falls which is forever hanging over me, then I should wish you to read this, that you may know straight from me how far I have been to blame.
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On the other hand, if all should go well (which may kind God Almighty grant!), then if by any chance this paper should be still undestroyed and should fall into your hands, I conjure you, by all you hold sacred, by the memory of your dear mother, and by the love which had been between us, to hurl it into the fire and to never give one thought to it again.
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"'If then your eye goes on to read this line, I know that I shall already have been exposed and dragged from my home, or as is more likely, for you know that my heart is weak, by lying with my tongue sealed forever in death.
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In either case the time for suppression is past, and every word which I tell you is the naked truth, and this I swear as I hope for mercy.
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