I would sooner
have a savage wild animal loose about the place. I loathe and
fear him more than I can say. How CAN Mr. Carruthers endure
such a creature for a moment? However, all my troubles will be
over on Saturday."
"So I trust, Watson; so I trust," said Holmes, gravely.
"There is some deep intrigue going on round that little woman,
and it is our duty to see that no one molests her upon that last
journey. I think, Watson, that we must spare time to run down
together on Saturday morning, and make sure that this curious
and inconclusive investigation has no untoward ending."
I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view
of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre
than dangerous. That a man should lie in wait for and follow
a very handsome woman is no unheard-of thing, and if he had so
little audacity that he not only dared not address her, but even
fled from her approach, he was not a very formidable assailant.
The ruffian Woodley was a very different person, but, except on
one occasion, he had not molested our client, and now he visited
the house of Carruthers without intruding upon her presence.
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