13810 Presuming that your theory is correct, if he can lay his hands upon the man who threatened you last night, he will have gone a long way towards finding who took the naval treaty.
13811 It is absurd to suppose that you have two enemies, one of whom robs you while the other threatens your life.'
13812 'But Mr. Holmes said that he was not going to Briarbrae.'
13813 'I have known him for some time,' said I, 'but I never knew him do anything yet without a very good reason,' and with that our conversation drifted off into other topics.
13814 But it was a weary day for me.
13815 Phelps was still weak after his long illness, and his misfortunes made him querulous and nervous.
13816 In vain I endeavoured to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove.
13817 He would always come back to his lost treaty; wondering, guessing, speculating, as to what Holmes was doing, what steps Lord Holdhurst was taking, what news we should have in the morning.
13818 As the evening wore on his excitement became quite painful.
13819 'You have implicit faith in Holmes?' he asked.
13820 'I have seen him do some remarkable things.'
13821 'But he never brought light into anything quite so dark as this?'
13822 'Oh, yes; I have known him solve questions which presented fewer clues than yours.'
13823 'But not where such large interests are at stake?'