46237 'I am presuming that the cause of his fears came to him across the moor.
46238 If that were so, and it seems most probable, only a man who had lost his wits would have run from the house instead of towards it.
46239 If the gipsy's evidence may be taken as true, he ran with cries for help in the direction where help was least likely to be.
46240 Then again, whom was he waiting for that night, and why was he waiting for him in the Yew Alley rather than in his own house?'
46241 'You think that he was waiting for someone?'
46242 'The man was elderly and infirm.
46243 We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement.
46244 Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?'
46245 'But he went out every evening.'
46246 'I think it unlikely that he waited at the moor-gate every evening.
46247 On the contrary, the evidence is that he avoided the moor.
46248 That night he waited there.
46249 It was the night before he was to take his departure for London.