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`` They would be likely to agree on some meeting-place beforehand , '' remarked Holmes . `` So it proved . I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making enquiries entirely without avail . This morning I began very early , and at eight o'clock I reached Halliday 's Private Hotel , in Little George Street . On my enquiry as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was living there , they at once answered me in the affirmative . ``` No doubt you are the gentleman whom he was expecting , ' they said . ` He has been waiting for a gentleman for two days . '