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प्रश्न
Why didn't John Garrideb like the idea of including Holmes in the hunt for the third Garrideb?
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उत्तर
Holmes was a detective and a renowned one. John Garrideb was afraid that Sherlock Holmes and his partner Watson will suspect his motives and will jeopardise his plan. Involving a detective in a plan that had a fake story, other than the fact that Garrideb, alias Killer Evans, who had a criminal background was not safe.
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| (7) | He made me write the sum on a slip and sign my name in a book. I no longer knew what I was doing. The bank swam before my eyes. “Is it deposited?” I asked in a hollow, vibrating voice. “It is,” said the accountant. “Then I want to draw a cheque.” My idea was to draw out six dollars of it for present use. Someone gave me a chequebook through a wicket and someone else began telling me how to write it out. The people in the bank had the impression that I was an invalid millionaire. I wrote something on the cheque and thrust it in at the clerk. He looked at it. |
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| Adapted from: My Financial Career By Stephen Leacock |
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