Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "This gentleman ?" she asked, facing round to me.
"No, his friend.

He wished us to leave him alone.

He is round in the stable lane now." "The stable lane ?" She raised her dark eyebrows.

"What can he hope to find there?
Ah! this, I suppose, is he.

I trust, sir, that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the snow from his shoes.