must hurry home. Put this paper into your uncle's box, put in a letter which says that your uncle burnt all the other papers, and put the box outside in the garden. I hope your enemies will be happy with that, and then you won't be in danger any more. How are you going home?' 'By train from Waterloo station,' replied Openshaw. 'There'll be a lot of people in the streets, so I think that you'll be all right. But be careful.' 'Thank you, Mr Holmes,' said Openshaw. 'I'll do everything you say.' He went out into the dark night,
the wind and the rain.
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K.K.K. Sherlock Holmes sat silently, and watched the fire. Then he said to me, 'John Openshaw is in real danger. Why did his Uncle Elias have to leave America? Because he had enemies. When he came back to England he was afraid. That's why he lived a lonely life and locked all his doors so carefully. Now where did those letters come from? Did you see?' 'The first from Pondicherry in India, the second from Dundee in Scotland and the third from East London,' I answered. 'Does that tell you anything?' asked Holmes.