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"
'
I
hardly
follow
you
,
"
said
Musgrave
.
'
The
paper
seems
to
me
to
be
of
no
practical
importance
.
'
"
'
But
to
me
it
seems
immensely
practical
,
and
I
fancy
that
Brunton
took
the
same
view
.
He
had
probably
seen
it
before
that
night
on
which
you
caught
him
.
'
"
'
It
is
very
possible
.
We
took
no
pains
to
hide
it
.
'
"
'
He
simply
wished
,
I
should
imagine
,
to
refresh
his
memory
upon
that
last
occasion
.
He
had
,
as
I
understand
,
some
sort
of
map
or
chart
which
he
was
comparing
with
the
manuscript
,
and
which
he
thrust
into
his
pocket
when
you
appeared
.
'
"
'
That
is
true
.
But
what
could
he
have
to
do
with
this
old
family
custom
of
ours
,
and
what
does
this
rigmarole
mean
?
'
"
'
I
do
n't
think
that
we
should
have
much
difficulty
in
determining
that
,
"
said
I
;
'
with
your
permission
we
will
take
the
first
train
down
to
Sussex
and
go
a
little
more
deeply
into
the
matter
upon
the
spot
.
"
The
same
afternoon
saw
us
both
at
Hurlstone
.
Possibly
you
have
seen
pictures
and
read
descriptions
of
the
famous
old
building
,
so
I
will
confine
my
account
of
it
to
saying
that
it
is
built
in
the
shape
of
an
L.
the
long
arm
being
the
more
modern
portion
,
and
the
shorter
the
ancient
nucleus
from
which
the
other
has
developed
.
Over
the
low
,
heavy-lintelled
door
,
in
the
centre
of
this
old
part
,
is
chiselled
the
date
,
1607
,
but
experts
are
agreed
that
the
beams
and
stonework
are
really
much
older
than
this
.
The
enormously
thick
walls
and
tiny
windows
of
this
part
had
in
the
last
century
driven
the
family
into
building
the
new
wing
,
and
the
old
one
was
used
now
as
a
storehouse
and
a
cellar
,
when
it
was
used
at
all
.
A
splendid
park
with
fine
old
timber
surrounds
the
house
,
and
the
lake
,
to
which
my
client
had
referred
,
lay
close
to
the
avenue
,
about
two
hundred
yards
from
the
building
.
"
I
was
already
firmly
convinced
,
Watson
,
that
there
were
not
three
separate
mysteries
here
,
but
one
only
,
and
that
if
I
could
read
the
Musgrave
Ritual
aright
I
should
hold
in
my
hand
the
clue
which
would
lead
me
to
the
truth
concerning
both
the
butler
Brunton
and
the
maid
Howells
.
To
that
then
I
turned
all
my
energies
.
Why
should
this
servant
be
so
anxious
to
master
this
old
formula
?
Evidently
because
he
saw
something
in
it
which
had
escaped
all
those
generations
of
country
squires
,
and
from
which
he
expected
some
personal
advantage
.
What
was
it
then
,
and
how
had
it
affected
his
fate
?
"
It
was
perfectly
obvious
to
me
,
on
reading
the
Ritual
,
that
the
measurements
must
refer
to
some
spot
to
which
the
rest
of
the
document
alluded
,
and
that
if
we
could
find
that
spot
we
should
be
in
a
fair
way
towards
finding
what
the
secret
was
which
the
old
Musgraves
had
thought
it
necessary
to
embalm
in
so
curious
a
fashion
.
There
were
two
guides
given
us
to
start
with
,
an
oak
and
an
elm
.
As
to
the
oak
there
could
be
no
question
at
all
.
Right
in
front
of
the
house
,
upon
the
left-hand
side
of
the
drive
,
there
stood
a
patriarch
among
oaks
,
one
of
the
most
magnificent
trees
that
I
have
ever
seen
.
