If you will wait, one or other of us will go back with you to the Hall." He tried to stagger to his feet; but he was still ghastly pale and trembling in every limb.

We helped him to a rock, where he sat shivering with his face buried in his hands.
"We must leave you now," said Holmes.

"The rest of our work must be done, and every moment is of importance.

We have our case, and now we only want our man.
"It's a thousand to one against our finding him at the house," he continued as we retraced our steps swiftly down the path.

"Those shots must have told him that the game was up." "We were some distance off, and this fog may have deadened them." "He followed the hound to call him off--of that you may be certain.