The Case of the Missing Marquess
The Case of the Missing Marquess
“Too many people would see me. No, my plan for getting to London was simply—and, I hoped, illogically—to have no plan. If I myself did not know what exactly I was doing, then how could my brothers guess?
They would hypothesise, of course; they would say, “Mother took her to Bath, so perhaps she has gone there,” or “In her room there is a book on Wales, with pencil markings on the map; perhaps she has gone there.” (I hoped they would find the book, which I had placed in the dollhouse as a false clue. The Meanings of Flowers, however, too large to carry with me, I had hidden among hundreds of other stout volumes in the library downstairs.) Mycroft and Sherlock would apply inductive reasoning; therefore, I reasoned, I must trust to chance. I would let the land show me the way eastward, choosing the stoniest ground or whatever would show my tyre marks the least.
It did not matter where I found myself at the end of that day, or the next. I would dine upon bread and cheese, I would sleep in ...the open like a Gypsy, and eventually, wandering along, I would encounter a railway line.MoreLess
They would hypothesise, of course; they would say, “Mother took her to Bath, so perhaps she has gone there,” or “In her room there is a book on Wales, with pencil markings on the map; perhaps she has gone there.” (I hoped they would find the book, which I had placed in the dollhouse as a false clue. The Meanings of Flowers, however, too large to carry with me, I had hidden among hundreds of other stout volumes in the library downstairs.) Mycroft and Sherlock would apply inductive reasoning; therefore, I reasoned, I must trust to chance. I would let the land show me the way eastward, choosing the stoniest ground or whatever would show my tyre marks the least.
It did not matter where I found myself at the end of that day, or the next. I would dine upon bread and cheese, I would sleep in ...the open like a Gypsy, and eventually, wandering along, I would encounter a railway line.MoreLess
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