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.'

46543    CHAPTER 5 : Three Broken Threads

46544    Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will.