"Our friend here is a wonderful man for starting a chase.

All he wants is an old dog to help him to do the running down." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," observed Mr.Merryweather gloomily.
"You may place considerable confidence in Mr.Holmes, sir," said the police agent loftily.

"He has his own little methods, which are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him.

It is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force." "Oh, if you say so, Mr.Jones, it is all right," said the stranger with deference.

"Still, I confess that I miss my rubber.
It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting.