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”
“
It
is
surely
rather
fanciful
.
”
“
Well
,
I
don
’
t
insist
upon
it
.
Whatever
the
cause
,
Colonel
Moran
began
to
go
wrong
.
Without
any
open
scandal
,
he
still
made
India
too
hot
to
hold
him
.
He
retired
,
came
to
London
,
and
again
acquired
an
evil
name
.
It
was
at
this
time
that
he
was
sought
out
by
Professor
Moriarty
,
to
whom
for
a
time
he
was
chief
of
the
staff
.
Moriarty
supplied
him
liberally
with
money
,
and
used
him
only
in
one
or
two
very
high
-
class
jobs
,
which
no
ordinary
criminal
could
have
undertaken
.
You
may
have
some
recollection
of
the
death
of
Mrs
.
Stewart
,
of
Lauder
,
in
1887
.
Not
?
Well
,
I
am
sure
Moran
was
at
the
bottom
of
it
,
but
nothing
could
be
proved
.
So
cleverly
was
the
colonel
concealed
that
,
even
when
the
Moriarty
gang
was
broken
up
,
we
could
not
incriminate
him
.
You
remember
at
that
date
,
when
I
called
upon
you
in
your
rooms
,
how
I
put
up
the
shutters
for
fear
of
air
-
guns
?
No
doubt
you
thought
me
fanciful
.
I
knew
exactly
what
I
was
doing
,
for
I
knew
of
the
existence
of
this
remarkable
gun
,
and
I
knew
also
that
one
of
the
best
shots
in
the
world
would
be
behind
it
.
When
we
were
in
Switzerland
he
followed
us
with
Moriarty
,
and
it
was
undoubtedly
he
who
gave
me
that
evil
five
minutes
on
the
Reichenbach
ledge
.
“
You
may
think
that
I
read
the
papers
with
some
attention
during
my
sojourn
in
France
,
on
the
look
-
out
for
any
chance
of
laying
him
by
the
heels
.
So
long
as
he
was
free
in
London
,
my
life
would
really
not
have
been
worth
living
.
Night
and
day
the
shadow
would
have
been
over
me
,
and
sooner
or
later
his
chance
must
have
come
.
What
could
I
do
?
I
could
not
shoot
him
at
sight
,
or
I
should
myself
be
in
the
dock
.
There
was
no
use
appealing
to
a
magistrate
.
They
cannot
interfere
on
the
strength
of
what
would
appear
to
them
to
be
a
wild
suspicion
.
So
I
could
do
nothing
.
But
I
watched
the
criminal
news
,
knowing
that
sooner
or
later
I
should
get
him
.
Then
came
the
death
of
this
Ronald
Adair
.
My
chance
had
come
at
last
.
Knowing
what
I
did
,
was
it
not
certain
that
Colonel
Moran
had
done
it
?
He
had
played
cards
with
the
lad
,
he
had
followed
him
home
from
the
club
,
he
had
shot
him
through
the
open
window
.
There
was
not
a
doubt
of
it
.
The
bullets
alone
are
enough
to
put
his
head
in
a
noose
.
I
came
over
at
once
.
I
was
seen
by
the
sentinel
,
who
would
,
I
knew
,
direct
the
colonel
’
s
attention
to
my
presence
.
He
could
not
fail
to
connect
my
sudden
return
with
his
crime
,
and
to
be
terribly
alarmed
.
I
was
sure
that
he
would
make
an
attempt
to
get
me
out
of
the
way
at
once
,
and
would
bring
round
his
murderous
weapon
for
that
purpose
.
I
left
him
an
excellent
mark
in
the
window
,
and
,
having
warned
the
police
that
they
might
be
needed
—
by
the
way
,
Watson
,
you
spotted
their
presence
in
that
doorway
with
unerring
accuracy
—
I
took
up
what
seemed
to
me
to
be
a
judicious
post
for
observation
,
never
dreaming
that
he
would
choose
the
same
spot
for
his
attack
.
Now
,
my
dear
Watson
,
does
anything
remain
for
me
to
explain
?
”
“
Yes
,
”
said
I
.
“
You
have
not
made
it
clear
what
was
Colonel
Moran
’
s
motive
in
murdering
the
Honourable
Ronald
Adair
?
”
“
Ah
!
my
dear
Watson
,
there
we
come
into
those
realms
of
conjecture
,
where
the
most
logical
mind
may
be
at
fault
Each
may
form
his
own
hypothesis
upon
the
present
evidence
,
and
yours
is
as
likely
to
be
correct
as
mine
.
”
“
You
have
formed
one
,
then
?
”
“
I
think
that
it
is
not
difficult
to
explain
the
facts
.
It
came
out
in
evidence
that
Colonel
Moran
and
young
Adair
had
,
between
them
,
won
a
considerable
amount
of
money
.
Now
,
Moran
undoubtedly
played
foul
—
of
that
I
have
long
been
aware
.
I
believe
that
on
the
day
of
the
murder
Adair
had
discovered
that
Moran
was
cheating
.
Very
likely
he
had
spoken
to
him
privately
,
and
had
threatened
to
expose
him
unless
he
voluntarily
resigned
his
membership
of
the
club
,
and
promised
not
to
play
cards
again
.
It
is
unlikely
that
a
youngster
like
Adair
would
at
once
make
a
hideous
scandal
by
exposing
a
well
-
known
man
so
much
older
than
himself
.
Probably
he
acted
as
I
suggest
.
The
exclusion
from
his
clubs
would
mean
ruin
to
Moran
,
who
lived
by
his
ill
-
gotten
card
-
gains
.
He
therefore
murdered
Adair
,
who
at
the
time
was
endeavouring
to
work
out
how
much
money
he
should
himself
return
,
since
he
could
not
profit
by
his
partner
’
s
foul
play
.
He
locked
the
door
lest
the
ladies
should
surprise
him
and
insist
upon
knowing
what
he
was
doing
with
these
names
and
coins
.
Will
it
pass
?
”
