Sherlock Holmes

Yes.

Then there was a complication over my sister's spanel.

It used to follow her everywhere.

turned up at the warehouse door and stood there yapping continuously.

Wouldn't go away.

So you got rid of it to the landlord of the Green Dragon?

Yes.

Even so, I felt that some more secure place was needed for her body, and Norlidge and I carried it by night to the cryptic.

There is no indignity or irreverence, Mr. Holmes.

I do not feel I've wronged the dead.

Well, I can picture your thoughts.

Perhaps you would have felt differently in my positions.

One cannot see all one's hopes and plans shattered at the last moment and make no effort to save them.

It seemed to me that it would be no unworthy resting place if we put her for some time in one of the coffins of her late husband's ancestors.

They lie in what is still consecrated ground.

Lord Little, I... I disclaim... All right.

We opened the coffin, removed the contents, and placed my sister inside as you have seen her.

As to the old relics...

They were burnt in the central furnace at night.

Seemed better than to leave them lying there for intruders to disturb.