"He acted according to his lights," said Holmes, lifting him down from the barrel and walking him out of the timber-yard. "If you consider how much creasote is carted about London in one day, it is no great wonder that our trail should have been crossed.
»Hij handelde naar zijne gegevens," zeide Holmes, den hond van het vat tillende en hem buiten den timmertuin brengend, »als gij in aanmerking neemt, hoeveel creosoot er op één dag om Londen vervoerd wordt dan is het geen wonder dat ons spoor gekruisd is.