You can see the colour now if you look at the smaller fragments of the one that is crushed." He handed me his lens, and, when I had verified his statement, he produced from his pocket a small tin box with a closely-fitting lid in which he deposited the paper, having first folded it up into a small parcel.
"We will put the pencil in too," said he; and, as he returned the box to his pocket he added: "you had better get one of these little boxes from Polton.

If is often useful to have a safe receptacle for small and fragile articles." He folded up and replaced the dead man's clothes as we had found them.
Then, observing a pair of shoes standing by the wall, he picked them up and looked them over thoughtfully, paying special attention to the backs of the soles and the fronts of the heels.
"I suppose we may take it," said he, "that these are the shoes that poor Jeffrey wore on the night of his death.

At any rate there seem to be no others.

He seems to have been a fairly clean walker.

The streets were shockingly dirty that day, as I remember most distinctly.