51217 'It is nothing very formidable,' he said, taking a long cigar-shaped roll from his pocket.
51218 'It is an ordinary plumber's smoke rocket, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting.
51219 Your task is confined to that.
51220 When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people.
51221 You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten minutes.
51222 I hope that I have made myself clear?'
51223 'I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, and, at the signal, to throw in this object, then to raise the cry of fire, and to await you at the corner of the street.'
51224 'Precisely.'
51225 'Then you may entirely rely on me.'
51226 'That is excellent.
51227 I think perhaps it is almost time that I prepared for the new rôle I have to play.'
51228 He disappeared into his bedroom, and returned in a few minutes in the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist clergyman.
51229 His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and benevolent curiosity, were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have equalled.
51230 It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume.