? ? ? ? "When do you desire to go?" he asked coldly.
? ? ? ? "Immediately after breakfast. We will drive in to Coombe Tracey, but Watson will leave his things as a pledge that he will come back to you. Watson, you will send a note to Stapleton to tell him that you regret that you cannot come."
? ? ? ? "I have a good mind to go to London with you," said the baronet. "Why should I stay here alone?"
? ? ? ? "Because it is your post of duty. Because you gave me your word that you would do as you were told, and I tell you to stay."
? ? ? ? "All right, then, I'll stay."
? ? ? ? "One more direction! I wish you to drive to Merripit House Send back your trap, however, and let them know that you intend to walk home."
? ? ? ? "To walk across the moor?"
? ? ? ? "Yes."
? ? ? ? "But that is the very thing which you have so often cautioned me not to do."
? ? ? ? "This time you may do it with safety. If I had not every confidence in your nerve and courage I would not suggest it, but it is essential that you should do it."
? ? ? ? "Then I will do it."
? ? ? ? "And as you value your life do not go across the moor in any direction save along the straight path which leads from Merripit House to the Grimpen Road, and is your natural way home.
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