Good-morning, Mr.Ross.

I hope you will be able to report to me soon, Doctor Winchester." When he had gone we stood silent, till the rumble of his carriage wheels died away.

The first to speak was Doctor Winchester: "I think it well to say that to my mind, speaking purely as a physician, he is quite right.

I feel as if I could have assaulted him when he made it a condition of not giving up the case; but all the same he is right as to treatment.

He does not understand that there is something odd about this special case; and he will not realise the knot that we are all tied up in by Mr.Trelawny's instructions.