? ? ? ? "Any other point, sir?"
? ? ? ? "Well, we may have to apply to you again if Mrs. Barclay should prove to be in serious trouble."
? ? ? ? "In that case, of course, I'd come forward."
? ? ? ? "But if not, there is no object in raking up this scandal against a dead man, foully as he has acted. You have at least the satisfaction of knowing that for thirty years of his life his conscience bitterly reproached him for his wicked deed. Ah, there goes Major Murphy on the other side of the street. Good-bye, Wood. I want to learn if anything has happened since yesterday."
? ? ? ? We were in time to overtake the major before he reached the corner.
? ? ? ? "Ah, Holmes," he said, "I suppose you have heard that all this fuss has come to nothing?"
? ? ? ? "What then?"
? ? ? ? "The }nquest is just over. The medical evidence showed conclusively that death was due to apoplexy. You see it was quite a simple case. after all."
? ? ? ? "Oh, remarkably superficial," said Holmes, smiling. "Come, Watson, I don't think we shall be wanted in Aldershot any more.
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