What the Devil Is the Meaning of All This?

Holmes and his friends were watching the moat from a window. A man was stirring up the moat with something which he held in his hand. Holmes pounced upon a sodden bundle tied together with cord, which lay where it had been thrust under the writing table. This is what we are, mister barker, this bundle weighted with the dumb bell which you have just raised from the bottom of the moat. Now cried holmes. What the devil is the meaning of all this? Anyhow, holmes took a swift glance round, and then pounced on cecil barker who held it towards us as we entered. It was now in the