Still, he has been justified of his wisdom up to date, at any rate, since he has not been taken.

But his description--what of that ?" MacDonald referred to his notebook.

"Here we have it so far as they could give it.

They don't seem to have taken any very particular stock of him; but still the porter, the clerk, and the chambermaid are all agreed that this about covers the points.

He was a man about five foot nine in height, fifty or so years of age, his hair slightly grizzled, a grayish moustache, a curved nose, and a face which all of them described as fierce and forbidding." "Well, bar the expression, that might almost be a description of Douglas himself," said Holmes.