I could not make it out when first I saw the light flashing upon the lens." He rose and peeped into the hut.

"Ha, I see that Cartwright has brought up some supplies.

What's this paper?
So you have been to Coombe Tracey, have you ?" "Yes." "To see Mrs.Laura Lyons ?" "Exactly." "Well done! Our researches have evidently been running on parallel lines, and when we unite our results I expect we shall have a fairly full knowledge of the case." "Well, I am glad from my heart that you are here, for indeed the responsibility and the mystery were both becoming too much for my nerves.

But how in the name of wonder did you come here, and what have you been doing?
I thought that you were in Baker Street working out that case of blackmailing." "That was what I wished you to think." "Then you use me, and yet do not trust me!" I cried with some bitterness.

"I think that I have deserved better at your hands, Holmes." "My dear fellow, you have been invaluable to me in this as in many other cases, and I beg that you will forgive me if I have seemed to play a trick upon you.