46604 When taken in conjunction with your uncle's death I am not sure that of all the five hundred cases of capital importance which I have handled there is one which cuts so deep.
46605 But we hold several threads in our hands, and the odds are that one or other of them guides us to the truth.
46606 We may waste time in following the wrong one, but sooner or later we must come upon the right.'
46607 We had a pleasant luncheon in which little was said of the business which had brought us together.
46608 It was in the private sitting-room to which we afterwards repaired that Holmes asked Baskerville what were his intentions.
46609 'To go to Baskerville Hall.'
46610 'And when?'
46611 'At the end of the week.'
46612 'On the whole,' said Holmes, 'I think that your decision is a wise one.
46613 I have ample evidence that you are being dogged in London, and amid the millions of this great city it is difficult to discover who these people are or what their object can be.
46614 If their intentions are evil they might do you a mischief, and we should be powerless to prevent it.
46615 You did not know, Dr Mortimer, that you were followed this morning from my house?'