46716 'But it is a very singular thing,' Dr Mortimer remarked.
46717 'I searched this room carefully before lunch.'
46718 'And so did I,' said Baskerville.
46719 'Every inch of it.'
46720 'There was certainly no boot in it then.'
46721 'In that case the waiter must have placed it there while we were lunching.'
46722 The German was sent for, but professed to know nothing of the matter, nor could any inquiry clear it up.
46723 Another item had been added to that constant and apparently purposeless series of small mysteries which had succeeded each other so rapidly.
46724 Setting aside the whole grim story of Sir Charles's death, we had a line of inexplicable incidents all within the limits of two days, which included the receipt of the printed letter, the black-bearded spy in the hansom, the loss of the new brown boot, the loss of the old black boot, and now the return of the new brown boot.
46725 Holmes sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that his mind, like my own, was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted.
46726 All afternoon and late into the evening he sat lost in tobacco and thought.
46727 Just before dinner two telegrams were handed in.
46728 The first ran:
46729 Have just heard that Barrymore is at the Hall