Second Report of Dr. Watson
I have heard his steps in the passage, coming and going, just about the hour you name.”
“Perhaps, then, he pays a visit every night to that particular window,” I suggested.
“Perhaps he does. If so, we should be able to shadow him, and see what it is that he is after. I wonder what your friend Holmes would do if he were here?”
“I believe that he would do exactly what you now suggest,” said I. “He would follow Barrymore and see what he did.”
“Then we shall do it together.”
“But surely he would hear us.”
“The man is rather deaf, and in any case we must take our chance of that. We’ll sit up in my room to-night, and wait until he passes.” Sir Henry rubbed his hands with pleasure, and it was evident that he hailed the adventure as a relief to his somewhat quiet life upon the moor.
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