? ? ? ? "I did exactly what you advised."
? ? ? ? "Did you find your brougham?"
? ? ? ? "Yes, it was waiting."
? ? ? ? "Did you recognize your coachman?"
? ? ? ? "No."
? ? ? ? "It was my brother Mycroft. It is an advantage to get about in such a case without taking a mercenary into your confidence. But we must plan what we are to do about Moriarty now."
? ? ? ? "As this is an express, and as the boat runs in connection with it, I should think we have shaken him off very effectively."
? ? ? ? "My dear Watson, you evidently did not realize my meaning when I said that this man may be taken as being quite on the same intellectual plane as myself. You do not imagine that if I were the pursuer I should allow myself to be baffled by so slight an obstacle. Why, then, should you think so meanly of him?"
? ? ? ? "What will he do?"
? ? ? ? "What I should do."
? ? ? ? "What would you do, then?"
? ? ? ? "Engage a special."
? ? ? ? "But it must be late."
? ? ? ? "By no means.
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