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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: the same way Holmes had called for the two girls at the Albion
Hotel in Toronto on October 25 and taken them out with him, after
which they had never been seen alive except by the old gentleman
at No. 18 St. Vincent Street.
If Geyer could discover that Holmes had not departed in
Indianapolis from his usual custom of renting houses, he might be
on the high way to solving the mystery of Howard's fate.
Accordingly he returned to Indianapolis.
In the meantime, Holmes, in his prison at Philadelphia, learnt of
the discovery at Toronto. "On the morning of the 16th of July,"
he writes in his journal, "my newspaper was delivered to me about
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