13964    I let him take them, therefore, from the hiding-place, and so saved myself an infinity of trouble.

13965    Is there any other point which I can make clear?'

13966    'Why did he try the window on the first occasion,' I asked, 'when he might have entered by the door?'

13967    'In reaching the door he would have to pass seven bedrooms.

13968    On the other hand, he could get out on to the lawn with ease.

13969    Anything else?'

13970    'You do not think,' asked Phelps, 'that he had any murderous intention?

13971    The knife was only meant as a tool.'

13972    'It may be so,' answered Holmes, shrugging his shoulders.

13973    'I can only say for certain that Mr. Joseph Harrison is a gentleman to whose mercy I should be extremely unwilling to trust.'