"I had come to ask you if you cared to come with me--you and your friend here.

But from what you say we might perhaps be doing better work in London." "I rather think not," said Holmes.
"Hang it all, Mr.Holmes!" cried the inspector.

"The papers will be full of the Birlstone mystery in a day or two; but where's the mystery if there is a man in London who prophesied the crime before ever it occurred?
We have only to lay our hands on that man, and the rest will follow." "No doubt, Mr.Mac.But how do you propose to lay your hands on the so-called Porlock ?" MacDonald turned over the letter which Holmes had handed him.

"Posted in Camberwell--that doesn't help us much.

Name, you say, is assumed.