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.
46545 For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirely absorbed in the pictures of the modern Belgian masters.
46546 He would talk of nothing but art, of which he had the crudest ideas, from our leaving the gallery until we found ourselves at the Northumberland Hotel.
46547 'Sir Henry Baskerville is upstairs expecting you,' said the clerk.
46548 'He asked me to show you up at once when you came.'
46549 'Have you any objection to my looking at your register?' said Holmes.
46550 'Not in the least.'
46551 The book showed that two names had been added after that of Baskerville.
46552 One was Theophilus Johnson and family, of Newcastle, the other Mrs Oldmore and maid, of High Lodge, Alton.
46553 'Surely that must be the same Johnson whom I used to know,' said Holmes to the porter.
46554 'A lawyer, is he not, grey-headed, and walks with a limp?'
46555 'No, sir, this is Mr Johnson the coal-owner, a very active gentleman, not older than yourself.'