This way, gentlemen, if you please." He was a very bustling and genial person, this Sussex detective.

In ten minutes we had all found our quarters.

In ten more we were seated in the parlour of the inn and being treated to a rapid sketch of those events which have been outlined in the previous chapter.

MacDonald made an occasional note; while Holmes sat absorbed, with the expression of surprised and reverent admiration with which the botanist surveys the rare and precious bloom.
"Remarkable!" he said, when the story was unfolded, "most remarkable! I can hardly recall any case where the features have been more peculiar." "I thought you would say so, Mr.Holmes," said White Mason in great delight.

"We're well up with the times in Sussex.