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The District Attorney and the Insurance Company were not in agreement as to the fate of the Pitezel children. The former still inclined to the hope and belief that they were in England with Miss Williams, but the insurance company took a more sinister1 view. No trace of them existed except a tin box found among Holmes' effects, containing letters they had written to their mother and grandparents from Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Detroit, which had been given to Holmes to dispatch but had never reached their destination. The box contained letters from Mrs. Pitezel to her children, which Holmes had presumably intercepted2.
It was decided3 to make a final attempt to resolve all doubts by sending an experienced detective over the route taken by the children in America. He was to make exhaustive inquiries4 in each city with a view to tracing the visits of Holmes or the three children. For this purpose a detective of the name of Geyer was chosen. The record of his search is a remarkable5 story of patient and persistent6 investigation7.
Alice Pitezel had not seen her mother since she had gone with Holmes to identify her father's remains8 in Philadelphia. From there Holmes had taken her to Indianapolis. In the meantime he had visited Mrs. Pitezel at St. Louis, and taken away with him the girl, Nellie, and the boy, Howard, alleging9 as his reason for doing so that they and Alice were to join their father, whose temporary effacement10 was necessary to carry out successfully the fraud on the insurance company, to which Mrs. Pitezel had been from the first an
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sinister
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adj.不吉利的,凶恶的,左边的 | |
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拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 ); 截住; 截击; 拦阻 | |
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investigation
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remains
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alleging
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断言,宣称,辩解( allege的现在分词 ) | |
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effacement
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advent
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cylinder
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inquiry
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maiden
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proprietor
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ascertained
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distress
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housekeeper
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eldest
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unaware
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proximity
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mattress
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decomposition
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justify
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evoking
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产生,引起,唤起( evoke的现在分词 ) | |
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mythical
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vengeance
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entirely
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ribs
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janitor
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disappearance
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surgical
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imminent
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adj.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的 | |
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confession
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n.自白,供认,承认 | |
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pointed
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sensational
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exacting
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lasting
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extravagant
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vault
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peripatetic
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attained
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(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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indifference
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motive
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apparently
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appropriation
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n.拨款,批准支出 | |
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defrauding
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v.诈取,骗取( defraud的现在分词 ) | |
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inconvenient
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plunder
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exterminate
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confided
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contrived
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confiding
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purely
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ethical
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extermination
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tyro
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justifiably
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compendious
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subscribe
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liar
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plausibility
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