"Why should you raise up hopes which you are bound to disappoint?
I am not over-tender of heart, but I call it cruel." "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said Holmes.

"Have you an order to see him in prison ?" "Yes, but only for you and me." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out.

We have still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night ?" "Ample." "Then let us do so.

Watson, I fear that you will find it very slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a yellow-backed novel.

The puny plot of the story was so thin, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the day.