nearly one o’clock
`` Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official detective force ! This incident gives zest to our investigation , however , and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her . And now , Watson , we shall order breakfast , and afterwards I shall walk down to Doctors ' Commons , where I hope to get some data which may help us in this matter . '' It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion . He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper , scrawled over with notes and figures . `` I have seen the will of the deceased wife , '' said he . `` To determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned .