“I shall bring him then,” said I. “It is one now. I ought to be back before three if I can get a fresh horse.”

“And I,” said Holmes, “shall see what I can learn from Mrs. Bernstone and from the Indian servant; who, Mr. Thaddeus tells me, sleeps in the next garret. Then I shall study the great Jones’s methods and listen to his not too delicate sarcasms.

“ ‘Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhóhnen was sie nicht verstehen.’

“Goethe is always pithy.”