housekeeper, said 'Good evening' to the two of us, and
He was a big man with a big head, an intelligent face,
and grey hair. I remembered Holmes's words about
him.
He wore a dirty old black coat with no shirt under it,
but he spoke slowly, quietly and carefully. I looked at
him and listened to him and I thought: 'Yes, this is an
intelligent man. He was rich once but now he has no
money and things aren't easy for him.'
'We found your hat and your goose some days ago,'
said Holmes, 'But we couldn't find you very easily, Mr
Baker. We didn't know your address. Why didn't you
put an advertisement in the newspaper with your
address in it? We waited and waited for an
advertisement from you, but saw nothing