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Fall Meeting: November 14 2007, Hershey's, E. LansingThe Musgrave RitualAn Acrostic prepared by The Chemist The first letter of each correct answer, read vertically, will form a phrase.
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1. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... how often Holmes would docket his case papers. (every)
2. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... Where was the sun?
3. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... Where was the shadow?
4. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... Vanberry's profession.
5. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... how Watson refers to his memoirs.
6. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... Musgrave's manners (and yet courtly).
7. __ __ __ __ __ .... the material of the bag recovered from the lake.
8. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... a term for the maze-like structure of Hurlstone manor.
9. __ __ __ .... the tree struck by lightning.
10. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ or (__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __) .... the crutch of the singular affair.
11. __ __ .... the patriotic symbol formed by bullet-pocks on the wall.
12. __ __ __ __ __ .... The number of maids at Hurlstone manor.
13. __ __ __ __ __ __ .... Holmes transfixed his unanswered correspondence to a wooden one.
14. __ __ __ __ .... where Holmes tied knots in a long string. (every)
15. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... how Musgrave described Brunton's forehead.
16. __ __ __ by five and by five .... (a direction from the ritual.)
17. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... how Holmes refers to his memento's of the Musgrave Ritual
18. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... what Watson gives himself in reaction to Holmes' habits.
19. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... it led to Brunton's ruin.
20. __ __ __ __ .... Holmes' papers were Watson's great one.
21. __ __ __ __ __ .... The depth of the lake in feet near the gravel path.
22. __ __ __ the kind of box in which Holmes kept his case memoirs.
23. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... the
shape out of which the crown was bent and twisted.
24. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... Brunton's was found attached to an iron ring.
25. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and inference .... Holmes' methods, in which Musgrave expressed an interest.
26. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ .... of the club-foot
27. __ __ __ __ __ __ Howells .... (she was once engaged to Brunton.)
28. __ __ __ __ .... how Musgrave found the door to the library.
29. __ __ __ __ __ they had eaten through the wood of the hidden box.