49038    He said that the death was a very mysterious one, and that I should certainly be suspected if the facts came out.

49039    He frightened me into remaining silent.'

49040    'Quite so.

49041    But you had your suspicions?'

49042    She hesitated and looked down.

49043    'I knew him,' she said.

49044    'But if he had kept faith with me I should always have done so with him.'

49045    'I think that on the whole you have had a fortunate escape,' said Sherlock Holmes.

49046    'You have had him in your power and he knew it, and yet you are alive.

49047    You have been walking for some months very near to the edge of a precipice.

49048    We must wish you good morning now, Mrs Lyons, and it is probable that you will very shortly hear from us again.'

49049    'Our case becomes rounded off, and difficulty after difficulty thins away in front of us,' said Holmes as we stood waiting for the arrival of the express from town.

49050    'I shall soon be in the position of being able to put into a single connected narrative one of the most singular and sensational crimes of modern times.

49051    Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Grodno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own.

49052    Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.