But what then?
It was exceedingly improbable that we should be able to discover the maker of them, and if we were, it was still more improbable that he would be able to give us any information that would help us.
Spectacle-makers are not usually on confidential terms with their customers.
As to the other objects, I could make nothing of them.

The little sticks of reed evidently had some use that was known to Thorndyke and furnished, by inference, some kind of information about Weiss, Graves, or Mrs.Schallibaum.But I had never seen anything like them before and they conveyed nothing whatever to me.

Then the bottle that had seemed so significant to Thorndyke was to me quite uninforming.

It did, indeed, suggest that some member of the household might be connected with the stage, but it gave no hint as to which one.

Certainly that person was not Mr.Weiss, whose appearance was as remote from that of an actor as could well be imagined.