"Did you examine footprints?"
"Yes. The only ones around the bushes were Martin's and mine made this morning, and the prints of the man who first discovered them. Of course my own prints this time were made by the boots you told me to buy and put on."
"What next?"
"I went along the river bank for a couple of miles with my parcel until I came to some other suburb, and then I caught a cab to the Arc de Triomphe, and there I took another cab to here."
"The workman's boots?"
"After I changed back to my ordinary boots, I threw them in the river, as you told me to."
"They sank?"
"Yes, sir."
"Anything else?"
"Nothing else worth reporting, I think.... Do you recognize this coat and stick as belonging to Mr Matheson, sir?"