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“But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.

Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in pigeonhole M., done up in a blue envelope and inscribed ‘Moriarty.’ I made every disposition of my property before leaving England, and handed it to my brother Mycroft.

I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor.

Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.