56017 I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it.
56018 But to-day being Saturday rather complicates matters.
56019 I shall want your help to-night.'
56020 'At what time?'
56021 'Ten will be early enough.'
56022 'I shall be at Baker Street at ten.'
56023 'Very well.
56024 And, I say, Doctor!
56025 There may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket.'
56026 He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd.
56027 I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.
56028 Here I had heard what he had heard, I had seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had happened, but what was about to happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and grotesque.
56029 As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the Encyclopædia down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me.
56030 What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed?