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“
Mr
.
Woodley
seemed
to
me
to
be
a
most
odious
person
.
He
was
for
ever
making
eyes
at
me
—
a
coarse
,
puffy
-
faced
,
red
-
moustached
young
man
,
with
his
hair
plastered
down
on
each
side
of
his
forehead
.
I
thought
that
he
was
perfectly
hateful
—
and
I
was
sure
that
Cyril
would
not
wish
me
to
know
such
a
person
.
”
“
Oh
,
Cyril
is
his
name
!
”
said
Holmes
,
smiling
.
The
young
lady
blushed
and
laughed
.
“
Yes
,
Mr
.
Holmes
,
Cyril
Morton
,
an
electrical
engineer
,
and
we
hope
to
be
married
at
the
end
of
the
summer
.
Dear
me
,
how
did
I
get
talking
about
him
?
What
I
wished
to
say
was
that
Mr
.
Woodley
was
perfectly
odious
,
but
that
Mr
.
Carruthers
,
who
was
a
much
older
man
,
was
more
agreeable
.
He
was
a
dark
,
sallow
,
clean
-
shaven
,
silent
person
,
but
he
had
polite
manners
and
a
pleasant
smile
.
He
inquired
how
we
were
left
,
and
on
finding
that
we
were
very
poor
,
he
suggested
that
I
should
come
and
teach
music
to
his
only
daughter
,
aged
ten
.
I
said
that
I
did
not
like
to
leave
my
mother
,
on
which
he
suggested
that
I
should
go
home
to
her
every
week
-
end
,
and
he
offered
me
a
hundred
a
year
,
which
was
certainly
splendid
pay
.
So
it
ended
by
my
accepting
,
and
I
went
down
to
Chiltern
Grange
,
about
six
miles
from
Farnham
.
Mr
.
Carruthers
was
a
widower
,
but
he
had
engaged
a
lady
housekeeper
,
a
very
respectable
,
elderly
person
,
called
Mrs
.
Dixon
,
to
look
after
his
establishment
.
The
child
was
a
dear
,
and
everything
promised
well
.
Mr
.
Carruthers
was
very
kind
and
very
musical
,
and
we
had
most
pleasant
evenings
together
.
Every
week
-
end
I
went
home
to
my
mother
in
town
.
“
The
first
flaw
in
my
happiness
was
the
arrival
of
the
red
-
moustached
Mr
.
Woodley
.
He
came
for
a
visit
of
a
week
,
and
oh
!
it
seemed
three
months
to
me
.
He
was
a
dreadful
person
—
a
bully
to
everyone
else
,
but
to
me
something
infinitely
worse
.
He
made
odious
love
to
me
,
boasted
of
his
wealth
,
said
that
if
I
married
him
I
could
have
the
finest
diamonds
in
London
,
and
finally
,
when
I
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
him
,
he
seized
me
in
his
arms
one
day
after
dinner
—
he
was
hideously
strong
—
and
swore
that
he
would
not
let
me
go
until
I
had
kissed
him
.
Mr
.
Carruthers
came
in
and
tore
him
from
me
,
on
which
he
turned
upon
his
own
host
,
knocking
him
down
and
cutting
his
face
open
.
That
was
the
end
of
his
visit
,
as
you
can
imagine
.
Mr
.
Carruthers
apologized
to
me
next
day
,
and
assured
me
that
I
should
never
be
exposed
to
such
an
insult
again
.
I
have
not
seen
Mr
.
Woodley
since
.
“
And
now
,
Mr
.
Holmes
,
I
come
at
last
to
the
special
thing
which
has
caused
me
to
ask
your
advice
to
-
day
.
You
must
know
that
every
Saturday
forenoon
I
ride
on
my
bicycle
to
Farnham
Station
,
in
order
to
get
the
12
:
22
to
town
.
The
road
from
Chiltern
Grange
is
a
lonely
one
,
and
at
one
spot
it
is
particularly
so
,
for
it
lies
for
over
a
mile
between
Charlington
Heath
upon
one
side
and
the
woods
which
lie
round
Charlington
Hall
upon
the
other
.
You
could
not
find
a
more
lonely
tract
of
road
anywhere
,
and
it
is
quite
rare
to
meet
so
much
as
a
cart
,
or
a
peasant
,
until
you
reach
the
high
road
near
Crooksbury
Hill
.
Two
weeks
ago
I
was
passing
this
place
,
when
I
chanced
to
look
back
over
my
shoulder
,
and
about
two
hundred
yards
behind
me
I
saw
a
man
,
also
on
a
bicycle
.
He
seemed
to
be
a
middle
-
aged
man
,
with
a
short
,
dark
beard
.
I
looked
back
before
I
reached
Farnham
,
but
the
man
was
gone
,
so
I
thought
no
more
about
it
.
But
you
can
imagine
how
surprised
I
was
,
Mr
.
Holmes
,
when
,
on
my
return
on
the
Monday
,
I
saw
the
same
man
on
the
same
stretch
of
road
.
My
astonishment
was
increased
when
the
incident
occurred
again
,
exactly
as
before
,
on
the
following
Saturday
and
Monday
.
He
always
kept
his
distance
and
did
not
molest
me
in
any
way
,
but
still
it
certainly
was
very
odd
.
I
mentioned
it
to
Mr
.
Carruthers
,
who
seemed
interested
in
what
I
said
,
and
told
me
that
he
had
ordered
a
horse
and
trap
,
so
that
in
future
I
should
not
pass
over
these
lonely
roads
without
some
companion
.
“
The
horse
and
trap
were
to
have
come
this
week
,
but
for
some
reason
they
were
not
delivered
,
and
again
I
had
to
cycle
to
the
station
.
That
was
this
morning
.
You
can
think
that
I
looked
out
when
I
came
to
Charlington
Heath
,
and
there
,
sure
enough
,
was
the
man
,
exactly
as
he
had
been
the
two
weeks
before
.
He
always
kept
so
far
from
me
that
I
could
not
clearly
see
his
face
,
but
it
was
certainly
someone
whom
I
did
not
know
.
He
was
dressed
in
a
dark
suit
with
a
cloth
cap
.
The
only
thing
about
his
face
that
I
could
clearly
see
was
his
dark
beard
.
To
-
day
I
was
not
alarmed
,
but
I
was
filled
with
curiosity
,
and
I
determined
to
find
out
who
he
was
and
what
he
wanted
.
I
slowed
down
my
machine
,
but
he
slowed
down
his
.
Then
I
stopped
altogether
,
but
he
stopped
also
.
Then
I
laid
a
trap
for
him
.
There
is
a
sharp
turning
of
the
road
,
and
I
pedalled
very
quickly
round
this
,
and
then
I
stopped
and
waited
.
I
expected
him
to
shoot
round
and
pass
me
before
he
could
stop
.
But
he
never
appeared
.
Then
I
went
back
and
looked
round
the
corner
.
I
could
see
a
mile
of
road
,
but
he
was
not
on
it
.
To
make
it
the
more
extraordinary
,
there
was
no
side
road
at
this
point
down
which
he
could
have
gone
.
”
