46566    'We know now that the people who are so interested in our friend have not settled down in his own hotel.

46567    That means that while they are, as we have seen, very anxious to watch him, they are equally anxious that he should not see them.

46568    Now, this is a most suggestive fact.'

46569    'What does it suggest?

46570    'It suggests - hullo, my dear fellow, what on earth is the matter?'

46571    As we came round the top of the stairs we had run up against Sir Henry Baskerville himself.

46572    His face was flushed with anger, and he held an old and dusty boot in one of his hands.

46573    So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.

46574    'Seems to me they are playing me for a sucker in this hotel,' he cried.

46575    'They'll find they've started in to monkey with the wrong man unless they are careful.

46576    By thunder, if that chap can't find my missing boot there will be trouble.

46577    I can take a joke with the best, Mr Holmes, but they've got a bit over the mark this time.'

46578    'Still looking for your boot?'

46579    'Yes, sir, and mean to find it.'

46580    'But surely, you said that it was a new brown boot?'