? ? ? ? "One would think that we were the criminals. Let us have him arrested on his arrival."
? ? ? ? "It would be to ruin the work of three months. We should get the big fish. but the smaller would dart right and left out of the net. On Monday we should have them all. No, an arrest is inadmissible."
? ? ? ? "What then?"
? ? ? ? "We shall get out at Canterbury."
? ? ? ? "And then?"
? ? ? ? "Well, then we must make a cross-country journey to Newhaven, and so over to Dieppe. Moriarty will again do what I should do. He will get on to Paris, mark down our luggage, and wait for two days at the depot. In the meantime we shall treat ourselves to a couple of carpet-bags, encourage the manufactures of the countries through which we travel, and make our way at our leisure into Switzerland, via Luxembourg and Basle."
? ? ? ? At Canterbury, therefore, we alighted, only to find that we should have to walt an hour before we could get a train to Newhaven.
? ? ? ? I was still looking rather ruefully after the rapidly disappearing luggage-van which contained my wardrobe, when Holmes pulled my sleeve and pointed up the line.
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