En la puerta nos tropezamos a un hombre alto y pálido, de cabellera casi blanca por lo rubia, el cual, apenas vernos ––llevaba en la mano un cuaderno de notas––, se precipitó hacia Sherlock Holmes, asiendo efusivamente su diestra. ––¡Le agradezco que haya venido! ––dijo––. Todo está como lo encontré..
At the door of the house we were met by a tall, white-faced, flaxen-haired man, with a notebook in his hand, who rushed forward and wrung my companion's hand with effusion. "It is indeed kind of you to come," he said, "I have had everything left untouched."