one in the morning
`` Exactly , '' said Holmes , `` however foolish the incident may seem . You have lost one of your boots , you say ? '' `` Well , mislaid it , anyhow . I put them both outside my door last night , and there was only one in the morning . I could get no sense out of the chap who cleans them . The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in the Strand , and I have never had them on . '' `` If you have never worn them , why did you put them out to be cleaned ? ''