48978    Now, Watson, I think that we cannot employ our time better than by calling upon your acquaintance, Mrs Laura Lyons.'

48979    His plan of campaign was beginning to be evident.

48980    He would use the baronet in order to convince the Stapletons that we were really gone, while we would actually return at the instant when we were likely to be needed.

48981    That telegram from London, if mentioned by Sir Henry to the Stapletons, must remove the last suspicions from their minds.

48982    Already I seemed to see our nets drawing close round that lean-jawed pike.

48983    Mrs Laura Lyons was in her office, and Sherlock Holmes opened his interview with a frankness and directness which considerably amazed her.

48984    'I am investigating the circumstances which attended the death of the late Sir Charles Baskerville,' said he.

48985    'My friend here, Dr Watson, has informed me of what you have communicated, and also of what you have withheld in connection with that matter.'

48986    'What have I withheld?' she asked defiantly.

48987    'You have confessed that you asked Sir Charles to be at the gate at ten o'clock.

48988    We know that that was the place and hour of his death.

48989    You have withheld what the connection is between these events.'

48990    'There is no connection.'

48991    'In that case the coincidence must indeed be an extraordinary one.

48992    But I think that we shall succeed in establishing a connection after all.