"Can you say as to that ?" "I can tell you that he's got a chest in his chamber that's nigh as heavy as if it were made of solid lead," I answered.

"And doubtless he'll have a key on him or about him that'll unlock it.

But what might be in it, I can't say, never having seen him open it at any time." "Well," he said, "I'll have to bring the superintendent down, and we must trouble your mother to let us take a look at this Mr.Gilverthwaite's effects.

Had he a doctor to him since he was taken ill ?" "Dr.Watson--this--I mean yesterday--afternoon," I answered.
"Then there'll be no inquest in his case," said the sergeant, "for the doctor'll be able to certify.

But there'll be a searching inquiry in this murder affair, and as Gilverthwaite sent you to meet the man that's been murdered--" "Wait a bit!" said I."You don't know, and I don't, that the man who's been murdered is the man I was sent to meet.