? ? ? ? It was almost dark before we found ourselves in Pall Mall, at the rooms of Mr. Melas. A gentleman had just called for him, and he was gone.
? ? ? ? "Can you tell me where?" asked Mycroft Holmes.
? ? ? ? "I don't know, sir," answered the woman who had opened the door; "I only know that he drove away with the gentleman in a carriage."
? ? ? ? "Did the gentleman give a name?"
? ? ? ? "No, sir."
? ? ? ? "He wasn't a tall, handsome, dark young man?"
? ? ? ? "Oh, no, sir. He was a little gentleman, with glasses, thin in the face, but very pleasant in his ways, for he was laughing all the time that he was talking."
? ? ? ? "Come along!" cried Sherlock Holmes abruptly. "This grows serious," he observed as we drove to Scotland Yard. "These men have got hold of Melas again. He is a man of no physical courage, as they are well aware from their experience the other night.This villain was able to terrorize him the instant that he got into his presence.
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