"You think that he was waiting for someone?"

"The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an
evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement.
Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as
Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given
him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?"

"But he went out every evening."

"I think it unlikely that he waited at the moor-gate every evening.
On the contrary, the evidence is that he avoided the moor. That
night he waited there. It was the night before he made his
departure for London. The thing takes shape, Watson. It becomes
coherent. Might I ask you to hand me my violin, and we will
postpone all further thought upon this business until we have
had the advantage of meeting Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry
Baskerville in the morning."




Chapter 4
Sir Henry Baskerville



Our breakfast table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his
dressing-gown for the promised interview. Our clients were
punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten