? ? ? ? "And how do you propose to do so?"
? ? ? ? "I have great hopes of what Mrs. Laura Lyons may do for us when the position of affairs is made clear to her. And I have my own plan as well. Sufficient for to-morrow is the evil thereof; but I hope before the day is past to have the upper hand at last."
? ? ? ? I could draw nothing further from him, and he walked, lost in thought, as far as the Baskerville gates.
? ? ? ? "Are you coming up?"
? ? ? ? "Yes; I see no reason for further concealment. But one last word, Watson. Say nothing of the hound to Sir Henry. Let him think that Selden's death was as Stapleton would have us believe. He will have a better nerve for the ordeal which he will have to undergo to-morrow, when he is engaged, if I remember your report aright, to dine with these people."
? ? ? ? "And so am I."
? ? ? ? "Then you must excuse yourself and he must go alone.
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