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Chapter One - A Wild Excited Young Man
"Who are you, sir?" asked Watson. "And what do you want?"
The young man looked at Watson, then at Holmes and started to explain.
"I'm sorry, Mr Holmes, I'm very sorry," he said. "Please don't be angry. I feel so afraid, Mr Holmes."
Holmes asked the young man to come into the room and told him to sit down.
"Have a cigarette," he said, "and tell us who you are and why you have come here."
The man took a cigarette from the box on the table, and Watson lit it for him. After some minutes he stopped shaking and spoke.
"My name is John McFarlane," he began. Neither Holmes nor Watson knew the name.
"And?" asked Holmes.
"And," replied McFarlane, starting to shake again, "I am in terrible trouble. You must help me, Mr Holmes. The police want to arrest me and send me to prison. And I have done nothing, Mr Holmes, nothing."
"Interesting," said Holmes, "very interesting. Don't you agree, Watson?"
Watson saw that his friend was excited by this mystery and wanted to know more.
"Mr McFarlane," Holmes went on, "why do the police want to arrest you? What have you done?"
"Nothing. I told you, I've done nothing. But they think that I murdered a man called Jonas Oldacre, a builder who lives - who lived - in South London, at Norwood."
Holmes lit another cigarette. "I'm very sorry to hear this, Mr McFarlane. Please tell us your story."
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