Now let us see what page 534 has in store for us.

Number thirteen is 'There,' which is much more promising.

Number one hundred and twenty-seven is 'is'-- 'There is' "-- Holmes's eyes were gleaming with excitement, and his thin, nervous fingers twitched as he counted the words--"'danger.' Ha! Ha! Capital! Put that down, Watson.

'There is danger--may--come--very soon--one.' Then we have the name 'Douglas'-- 'rich--country--now--at Birlstone--House--Birlstone--confidence--is--pressing.' There, Watson! What do you think of pure reason and its fruit?
If the green-grocer had such a thing as a laurel wreath, I should send Billy round for it." I was staring at the strange message which I had scrawled, as he deciphered it, upon a sheet of foolscap on my knee.
"What a queer, scrambling way of expressing his meaning!" said I.
"On the contrary, he has done quite remarkably well," said Holmes.

"When you search a single column for words with which to express your meaning, you can hardly expect to get everything you want.