I had no part in it, sir.

I was as grieved as if it had been my blood-relation.

I welted the little devil with the slack end of the rope for it, but it was done, and I could not undo it again." "Have a cigar," said Holmes; "and you had best take a pull out of my flask, for you are very wet.

How could you expect so small and weak a man as this black fellow to overpower Mr.Sholto and hold him while you were climbing the rope ?" "You seem to know as much about it as if you were there, sir.

The truth is that I hoped to find the room clear.