"
"Then there is an end of it. What more is to be said?
And yet you must admit that the three glasses are very
remarkable, Hopkins. What, you see nothing remarkable!
Well, well, let it pass. Perhaps when a man has special
knowledge and special powers like my own it rather encourages
him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
Of course, it must be a mere chance about the glasses.
Well, good morning, Hopkins. I don't see that I can be of
any use to you, and you appear to have your case very clear.
You will let me know when Randall is arrested, and any further
developments which may occur. I trust that I shall soon have
to congratulate you upon a successful conclusion. Come, Watson,
I fancy that we may employ ourselves more profitably at home."
During our return journey I could see by Holmes's face that
he was much puzzled by something which he had observed.
Every now and then, by an effort, he would throw off the
impression and talk as if the matter were clear, but then his
doubts would settle down upon him again, and his knitted brows
and abstracted eyes would show that his thoughts had gone back
once more to the great dining-room of the Abbey Grange in which
this midnight tragedy had been enacted.
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