48287    From there I should explore every hut upon the moor until I lighted upon the right one.

48288    If this man were inside it I should find out from his own lips, at the point of my revolver if necessary, who he was and why he had dogged us so long.

48289    He might slip away from us in the crowd of Regent Street, but it would puzzle him to do so upon the lonely moor.

48290    On the other hand, if I should find the hut, and its tenant should not be within it, I must remain there, however long the vigil, until he returned.

48291    Holmes had missed him in London.

48292    It would indeed be a triumph for me if I could run him to earth where my master had failed.

48293    Luck had been against us again and again in this inquiry, but now at last it came to my aid.

48294    And the messenger of good fortune was none other than Mr Frankland, who was standing, grey-whiskered and red-faced, outside the gate of his garden, which opened on to the high road along which I travelled.

48295    'Good-day, Dr Watson,' cried he, with unwonted good humour, 'you must really give your horses a rest, and come in to have a glass of wine and to congratulate me.'

48296    My feelings towards him were far from being friendly after what I had heard of his treatment of his daughter, but I was anxious to send Perkins and the wagonette home, and the opportunity was a good one.

48297    I alighted and sent a message to Sir Henry that I should walk over in time for dinner.

48298    Then I followed Frankland into his dining-room.

48299    'It is a great day for me, sir - one of the red-letter days of my life,' he cried, with many chuckles.

48300    'I have brought off a double event.

48301    I mean to teach them in these parts that law is law, and that there is a man here who does not fear to invoke it.