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"But Holmes said that he was not going to Briarbrae." "I have known him for some time," said I, "but I never knew him do anything yet without a very good reason," and with that our conversation drifted off on to other topics. But it was a weary day for me. Phelps was still weak after his long illness, and his misfortune made him querulous and nervous.
I heard vaguely that his abilities and the influences which he commanded had won him a good position at the Foreign Office, and then he passed completely out of my mind until the following letter recalled his existence: Briarbrae, Woking. My dear Watson, I have no doubt that you can remember "Tadpole" Phelps, who was in the fifth form when you were in the third.
"I hardly expect to go back to Briarbrae," answered Holmes, and waved his hand to us cheerily as we shot out from the station. Phelps and I talked it over on our journey, but neither of us could devise a satisfactory reason for this new development. "I suppose he wants to find out some clue as to the burglary last night, if a burglar it was. For myself, I don't believe it was an ordinary thief."
There I remained until evening, when I set off for Woking again, and found myself in the high-road outside Briarbrae just after sunset. "Well, I waited until the road was clear it is never a very frequented one at any time, I fancy and then I clambered over the fence into the grounds." "Surely the gate was open!" ejaculated Phelps. "Yes, but I have a peculiar taste in these matters.
Why had he asked Miss Harrison to remain in the sick-room all day? Why had he been so careful not to inform the people at Briarbrae that he intended to remain near them? I cudgelled my brains until I fell asleep in the endeavor to find some explanation which would cover all these facts.
"But how about our investigation in London?" asked Phelps, ruefully. "We can do that to-morrow. I think that just at present I can be of more immediate use here." "You might tell them at Briarbrae that I hope to be back to-morrow night," cried Phelps, as we began to move from the platform.
We were fortunate enough to catch an early train at Waterloo, and in a little under an hour we found ourselves among the fir-woods and the heather of Woking. Briarbrae proved to be a large detached house standing in extensive grounds within a few minutes' walk of the station.
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