Holmes provides detailed instructions for Watson's journey to the station the next day and then leaves by climbing over the back garden wall. Watson agrees to accompany Holmes onto the continent for the few remaining days before the arrests are concluded. After this interview, in which Holmes would not back down, three separate incidents occurred which nearly robbed Holmes of his life. Moriarty is fully aware of the planned move against him and has already confronted Holmes and warned him to back off or be crushed. In a few days time everything will be concluded and the gang arrested but a premature move might ruin the plans. Holmes has managed to weave a net around Moriarty and all the principal members of his gang. Holmes also describes Moriarty as his intellectual equal and the Napoleon of Crime. Holmes explains that Professor Moriarty is the central organizational force of a large portion of criminal activity in the city of London. Holmes asks Watson if he has ever heard of Professor Moriarty and Watson replies that he has not. One evening, Holmes visits Dr Watson looking thinner and paler than usual and with the knuckles of one hand burst and bleeding.
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