49215    If you will wait, one or other of us will go back with you to the Hall.'

49216    He tried to stagger to his feet, but he was still ghastly pale and trembling in every limb.

49217    We helped him to a rock, where he sat shivering with his face buried in his hands.

49218    'We must leave you now,' said Holmes.

49219    'The rest of our work must be done, and every moment is of importance.

49220    We have our case, and now we only want our man.

49221    'It's a thousand to one against our finding him at the house,' he continued, as we retraced our steps swiftly down the path.

49222    'Those shots must have told him that the game was up.'

49223    'We were some distance off, and this fog may have deadened them.'

49224    'He followed the hound to call him off - of that you may be certain.

49225    No, no, he's gone by this time!

49226    But we'll search the house and make sure.'

49227    The front door was open, so we rushed in and hurried from room to room, to the amazement of a doddering old manservant, who met us in the passage.

49228    There was no light save in the dining-room, but Holmes caught up the lamp, and left no corner of the house unexplored.

49229    No sign could we see of the man whom we were chasing.