If you have a manlike spirit, if you are grateful for the benefits bestowed upon you, if your discernment enables you to see that compliance with my request will entangle you in no guilt and betray you into no danger, stay, and aid me in hiding these remains from human scrutiny.
"Watson is beyond the reach of further injury.

I never intended him harm, though I have torn from him his sister and friend, and have brought his life to an untimely close.

To provide him a grave is a duty that I owe to the dead and to the living.

I shall quickly place myself beyond the reach of inquisitors and judges, but would willingly rescue from molestation or suspicion those whom I shall leave behind." What would have been the fruit of deliberation, if I had had the time or power to deliberate, I know not.

My thoughts flowed with tumult and rapidity.