He might slip away from us in the crowd of Regent Street, but it would puzzle him to do so upon the lonely moor.

On the other hand, if I should find the hut and its tenant should not be within it I must remain there, however long the vigil, until he returned.

Holmes had missed him in London.

It would indeed be a triumph for me if I could run him to earth where my master had failed.
Luck had been against us again and again in this inquiry, but now at last it came to my aid.

And the messenger of good fortune was none other than Mr.Frankland, who was standing, gray-whiskered and red-faced, outside the gate of his garden, which opened on to the highroad along which I travelled.
"Good-day, Dr.Watson," cried he with unwonted good humour, "you must really give your horses a rest and come in to have a glass of wine and to congratulate me." My feelings towards him were very far from being friendly after what I had heard of his treatment of his daughter, but I was anxious to send Perkins and the wagonette home, and the opportunity was a good one.