Sherlock Holmes Investigates

 

"He must be careful. Maybe he will find that someone is more clever than he is. You must stay in your room to-night. If he frightens you, we shall take you away to your aunt. Now, we do not have a lot of time. Please take us to the rooms which we need to look at."

The building was made of stone. The middle part was high and there were two other parts on each side. On one side the windows were broken and the roof had fallen down. Nobody lived in the middle part either, and it did not look very good. But the right-hand part was modern. There were curtains in the windows, and the smoke from the chimneys showed that the family lived here. Some work had been done by builders on the end wall, but they were not there when we came. Holmes walked slowly on the grass, and he looked at the windows for a long time.