Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.

But I shall be very much surprised if it is not clear enough before we go to bed this night." The London express came roaring into the station, and a small, wiry bulldog of a man had sprung from a first-class carriage.

We all three shook hands, and I saw at once from the reverential way in which Lestrade gazed at my companion that he had learned a good deal since the days when they had first worked together.

I could well remember the scorn which the theories of the reasoner used then to excite in the practical man.
"Anything good ?" he asked.
"The biggest thing for years," said Holmes.

"We have two hours before we need think of starting.