"
Holmes's face was very white and grave. "The story is not over
yet, I fear," said he. "You may find worse dangers than the
English law, or even than your enemies from America. I see
trouble before you, Mr. Douglas. You'll take my advice and still
be on your guard."
And now, my long-suffering readers, I will ask you to come away
with me for a time, far from the Sussex Manor House of Birlstone,
and far also from the year of grace in which we made our eventful
journey which ended with the strange story of the man who had
been known as John Douglas. I wish you to journey back some
twenty years in time, and westward some thousands of miles in
space, that I may lay before you a singular and terrible
narrative--so singular and so terrible that you may find it hard
to believe that even as I tell it, even so did it occur.
Do not think that I intrude one story before another is finished.
As you read on you will find that this is not so. And when I
have detailed those distant events and you have solved this
mystery of the past, we shall meet once more in those rooms on
Baker Street, where this, like so many other wonderful
happenings, will find its end.
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