46530 'But what you are really looking for is the centre page of The Times with some holes cut in it with scissors.
46531 Here is a copy of The Times.
46532 It is this page.
46533 You could easily recognize it, could you not?'
46534 'Yes, sir.'
46535 'In each case the outside porter will send for the hall porter, to whom also you will give a shilling.
46536 Here are twenty-three shillings.
46537 You will then learn in possibly twenty cases out of the twenty-three that the waste of the day before has been burned or removed.
46538 In the three other cases you will be shown a heap of paper, and will look for this page of The Times among it.
46539 The odds are enormously against your finding it.
46540 There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies.
46541 Let me have a report by wire at Baker Street before evening.
46542 And now, Watson, it only remains for us to find out by wire the identity of the cabman, No. 2704, and then we will drop into one of the Bond Street picture galleries and fill in the time until we are due at the hotel.'