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Mr. Carruthers apologized to me next day , and assured me that I should never be exposed to such an insult again . I have not seen Mr. Woodley since . `` And now , Mr. Holmes , I come at last to the special thing which has caused me to ask your advice to-day . You must know that every Saturday forenoon I ride on my bicycle to Farnham Station , in order to get the 12:22 to town . The road from Chiltern Grange is a lonely one , and at one spot it is particularly so , for it lies for over a mile between Charlington Heath upon one side and the woods which lie round Charlington Hall upon the other . You could not find a more lonely tract of road anywhere , and it is quite rare to meet so much as a cart , or a peasant , until you reach the high road near Crooksbury Hill . Two weeks ago I was passing this place , when I chanced to look back over my shoulder , and about two hundred yards behind me I saw a man , also on a bicycle .