小编精挑细选的优选读物《一本书读懂福尔摩斯》，轻松有趣令人手不释卷！(5)

"Well, now, Watson, let us judge the situation by this new information. We may take it that the letter came out of this strange household and was an invitation to Garcia to carry out some attempt which had already been planned. Who wrote the note? It was someone within the citadel, and it was a woman. Who then but Miss Burnet, the governess? All our reasoning seems to point that way. At any rate, we may take it as a hypothesis and see what consequences it would entail. I may add that Miss Burnet"s age and character make it certain that my rst idea that there might be a love interest in our story is out of the question.
"If she wrote the note she was presumably
have revenge upon them. Could we see her, then, and try to use her? That was my rst thought. But now we come to a sinister
"You will appreciate the difficulty of the situation, Watson. There is nothing upon which we can apply for a warrant. Our whole scheme might seem fantastic if laid before a magistrate. The woman"s disappearance counts for nothing, since in that extraordinary household any member of it might be invisible for a week. And yet she may at the present moment be in danger of her life. All I can do is to watch the house and leave my agent,Warner, on guard at the gates. We can"t let such a situation continue. If the law can do nothing we must take the risk ourselves."