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In any case , however , she constitutes a danger , a grave danger , that must , at all costs , be removed . '' And looking into the other 's face , he added , `` You understand me ? '' `` Perfectly . '' Just before two o'clock Gustav Heureux left the frowsy house in Vauxhall Bridge Road and walked through the silent street into Victoria Street . He was unaware , however , that on the opposite side of the road an ill-dressed man had for a full hour been lurking in a doorway , or that when he came down the doctor 's steps , the mysterious midnight watcher strolled noiselessly after him . ON the rising ground half-way between Wimborne and Poole , in Dorsetshire , up a narrow by-road which leads to the beautiful woods , lies the tiny hamlet of Idsworth , a secluded little place of about forty inhabitants , extremely rural and extremely picturesque . Standing alone half-way up the hill , and surrounded by trees , was an old-world thatched cottage , half-timbered , with high , red-brick chimneys , quaint gables and tiny dormer windows -- a delightful old Elizabethan house with a comfortable , homely look .