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Congratulations to Masazumi Wakatabe who identified precisely the  
novel and the scene! But I also appreciate the close match achieved by  
Brian Eggleston. In a personal mail, Brian explains how he used, very  
much in the manner of Holmes himself, the given clues.   
 
Thanks to all the contestants and to the patient readers.   
 
Yuri 
 
Appendix. From _The Hound of the Baskervilles_, Chapter 4: 
 
"We will confine ourselves for the present with your permission to this  
very interesting document, which must have been put together and  
posted yesterday evening. [Holmes refers to the letter received by Sir  
Henry Baskerville, saying "As you value your life or your reason keep  
away from the moor". The word "moor" only was printed in ink, while  
the rest was formed of printed words pasted on paper.] Have you  
yesterday's Times, Watson?"   
 
"It is here in the corner." 
 
"Might I trouble you for it -- the inside page, please, with the leading  
articles?" He glanced swiftly over it, running his eyes up and down the  
columns. "Capital article this on free trade. Permit me to give you an  
extract from it.   
 
"You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your  
own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to  
reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from  
the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general  
conditions of life in this island.   
 
"What do you think of that, Watson?" cried Holmes in high glee,  
rubbing his hands together with satisfaction. "Don't you think that is an  
admirable sentence?"   
 
Dr. Mortimer looked at Holmes with an air of professional interest, and  
Sir Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled dark eyes upon me.   
 
"I don't know much about the tariff and things of that kind," said he,  
"but it seems to me we've got a bit off the trail so far as that note is  
concerned."    
 
"On the contrary, I think we are particularly hot upon the trail, Sir  
Henry. Watson here knows more about my methods than you do, but I  
fear that even he has not quite grasped the significance of this  
sentence."    
 
"No, I confess that I see no connection."   
 
"And yet, my dear Watson, there is so very close a connection that the  
one is extracted out of the other. 'You,' 'your,' 'your,' 'life,' 'reason,' 
'value,' 'keep away,' 'from the.' Don't you see now whence these words  
have been taken?"     
 
"By thunder, you're right! Well, if that isn't smart!" cried Sir Henry.   
 
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