The major deduction that Watson makes when Barrymore tells
him about this note is that Laura Lyons either killed Sir Charles or that she set him up
to be killed.
In the note, Laura Lyons asks Sir Charles to
meet her at the gate where he stood on the night that he was killed. She furthermore
asks him to burn the letter after reading it. That is all of the letter that remained
after he burned it. From that, Watson deduces that it is very likely that Lyons lured
him out to the gate so that he could be killed.
As it turns
out, Lyons' note was written for this purpose, but she did not know this. It was
dictated to her by Stapleton, with whom she was in love.
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