That is still eight years in my future. That may be the explanation: that it simply does not yet exist. Perhaps I shall see the district emerge, in time. [He shrugs, spreading his hands!] It seems a bizarre place to have the sort of adventure that forges a life-long friendship, but it is not the strangest thing to have occurred in the back-alleys of London.
[Of course this guy pulled his punches because the people robbing him were needy. Ugh, that is unusually compassionate, and Holmes turns the subject from that to the interesting murder that's been alluded to.]
Jack the Ripper is also a future event, then? [He sounds interested.] Since there were multiple murders, I presume there was some delay in his capture.
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That is still eight years in my future. That may be the explanation: that it simply does not yet exist. Perhaps I shall see the district emerge, in time. [He shrugs, spreading his hands!] It seems a bizarre place to have the sort of adventure that forges a life-long friendship, but it is not the strangest thing to have occurred in the back-alleys of London.
[Of course this guy pulled his punches because the people robbing him were needy. Ugh, that is unusually compassionate, and Holmes turns the subject from that to the interesting murder that's been alluded to.]
Jack the Ripper is also a future event, then? [He sounds interested.] Since there were multiple murders, I presume there was some delay in his capture.
[Please tell him about the gruesome killings.]