Holmes looked sideways at the approaching waiter. 'How could you think that I would leave you in danger?' I whispered. I think, my dear friend, that you would be safer away from my company.' He said as much in our short interview, and I fancy he meant it. As it is, however, he is after bigger fish he will devote his whole energies to revenging himself on me. The attempted ruin of your reputation from the witness box. Then his only channel of revenge would be 'And so you would, if Moriarty were in police custody. 'Why? I thought you wanted me to stay here until after the trial. That you had better return to England, Watson.' It will only be a matter of time before he catches up with me. He hadīeen as tense as a coiled spring for the last three days, and I feared an extreme reaction. I watched him anxiously, crumbling a piece of bread roll between my finger and thumb. 'But I did think I had put the game in their hands.' Telegram into the grate, much to the astonishment of our fellow diners in the hotel salle-a-manger.
'Of course, when I left the country there was no one left to cope with him,' he snapped, hurling the The police had secured the whole gang with the
Informing him that Moriarty had slipped the net. I deduced that knowing whom I was with, she would be less likely to worry if my stay were prolonged or if there were any unexpected developments.Īfter two days in Brussels we moved on to Strasbourg. I did not impart anything concerning the alarming circumstances of my departure I merely stated 'Have been whisked away to the Continent for a short holiday. Accordingly we arrived, not at Paris as Moriarty anticipated, but at Dieppe, whence we made our way to Brussels. Intended, but from Newhaven, having abandoned our scheduled train, and our luggage with it, atĬanterbury to put Moriarty off our trail. I will therefore state here very briefly that we sailed for the Continent not from Dover as we had I have written elsewhere of the complicated sequence of events which led up to our sojourn on the Continent and our eventual arrival at the little village of Meiringen on the 3rd of May, and I do not intend to repeat myself here the purpose of this account is not to reiterate what has already been said, but to supplement it with what I was forced, at the time, to leave unsaid.
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