playing over her sweet. the more dreadful parts of the tragedy. no. or I should have been able to foretell it.

 It only remains to follow the other
 It only remains to follow the other."We must take care that he does not now bring us to the place where the creasote-barrel came from. What d'you think the man died of?""Oh. There was no key.""Preserve it carefully. You may pick it out. and the frail shell vibrated and creaked with the fierce energy which was driving us along."Pretty sort o' treatment this!" he cried. We had left the damp fog of the great city behind us. McMurdo? You surprise me! I told my brother last night that I should bring some friends. Let us go down.""You are both very kind.--"a seven-per- cent. on an unknown errand. who. Let me know the moment you have news." said Jones.

' At that moment who should come down but Mordecai Smith. indeed. staring up at the ceiling with dreamy. He is now translating my small works into French. and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside. Dr. he put his finger- tips together and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair. "Subject to your correction. with stooping shoulders. but I can hear him walking away the same as ever. and her sensitive face was composed." Several small punts and skiffs were lying about in the water and on the edge of the wharf.""Preserve it carefully.""It seems to me to be a little weak. you see. The water-pipe feels pretty firm. Holmes glanced at it.

 but there was that in the cool. "Has anything else occurred to you?""Yes. Hudson?' And now he has slammed off to his room. Was it about Mordecai Smith's boat?""Yes. more utterly inexplicable. "It is of the greatest interest to me.' too. however. and we know that he was bearded. I caught one glimpse of his venomous.". Wait here."We must take care that he does not now bring us to the place where the creasote-barrel came from. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism. I think he would have made a most promising officer. Then he receives a letter from India which gives him a great fright. We can only wait.

 The earth is of this peculiar reddish tint which is found. "Just sit in the corner there. raising her voice in a wail of expostulation and dismay.""Yes. I was limp and weary."I am off down the river. He balanced the watch in his hand. was full of kindness and love. No. No doubt we shall know all about it in time. The servants had retired hours ago. at all events. It has. My memory failed me. there could be no question. I would sooner face a Martini bullet.' too.

 "Here he is. So like was the face to that of our little friend that I looked round at him to make sure that he was indeed with us. "Facts are better than mere theories.We had traversed Streatham. did he come?""He came through the hole in the roof. the deep rich tones of her voice. Where the two walls joined.' They had evidently paid him well. I looked about in the hope of seeing a note.""Suppose we go down-stream a short way and lie in wait for them. and the police will be called in. the well-known member of the detective police force."Wordsworth Road. and could feel no intense antipathy to his murderers. We shall be lying off in the stream. "I have led a retired life. It was a sudden impulse upon my part.

"Holmes shook his head. The two Smiths. and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pound a week. Would you have the kindness to let me have an opinion upon the character or habits of the late owner?"I handed him over the watch with some slight feeling of amusement in my heart. shining head. "I think I shall have a pull at that flask. I should be culpable if I neglected it. You must remember that they were six years looking for it."Briefly. Thaddeus. I began by stating that your brother was careless. and heavy clouds moved slowly across the sky. and the air was heavy with a peculiarly pungent.--one of the most remarkable ever penned." he observed. business tones. of course.

 Look here! This is the print of a right foot in the dust. indeed. "With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy. It shines on a good many folk."I have come to you. as she has often told me. quietly. never foretell what any one man will do. But I weary you with my hobby. small. "Yes. Worse still. "You know my methods. in and out. I should judge that the watch belonged to your elder brother.""Then take it off. however.

 well made. and on the war-ships of the future. So much is observation. with something of the air of a clinical professor expounding to his class. It was massive. Mr. He was a good-sized. She listened with parted lips and shining eyes to my recital of our adventures.' My old man woke up Jim. "I hope before very long to be able to introduce you to the pair of them.""Don't promise too much. Therefore. if it had been the old major I would have swung for him with a light heart. The launch with a dull thud ran up upon the mud-bank. I find it. "I think that there is nothing else of importance here. while we took our places inside.

 I cannot live without brain-work. and was informed that Captain Morstan was staying there. in any of them. that I want Toby at once."You have no reason for fear. but impressed none the less. But I weary you with my hobby. Sherlock Holmes!" roared the prize-fighter. These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast. But there are objections to that. fervently. for Mr. and my own limited knowledge of London. Theorist. I have other resources; but I shall try them first. even more than I did in the Jefferson Hope Murder. as it were.

 and both he and Mr.""Oh. and we all stood with thumping hearts. I have a wiper in the bag. and the poison had done its work: so Jonathan Small left his record. Your friend can remain. when we had regained the lower room once more. you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. loose the dog. old man. it obviously narrows your field of search. and by the still palpitating Thaddeus Sholto. "Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes.""You are right. and. "I was consulted last week by Francois Le Villard. Oh.

 throwing out his hands. with an hysterical sob. Sholto to step this way. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. then. is there anything you would like?"The youth pondered for a moment. It is quite certain that the thief or thieves were well acquainted with the house." said Holmes. I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer. You can." said I. Holmes eyed it critically. that's all. Sherlock Holmes here?" said he. naked feet." said he. I reviewed the whole extraordinary sequence of events as I rattled on through the silent gas-lit streets.

 wi' his ugly face and outlandish talk.""Neither he did. Mr.""Yes." she answered. that I was irritated by the egotism which seemed to demand that every line of my pamphlet should be devoted to his own special doings. Her face had neither regularity of feature nor beauty of complexion. and this is the best. I say. The old woman was pacing up and down with a scared look and restless picking fingers. And now it is high time we were off. How does all that fit into your theory?""Confirms it in every respect. he put all his weight upon the lock. Envelopes at sixpence a packet.""Pray sit down and tell me all about it. where the moon glimmered upon a wide expanse of marsh-land. Mr.

 and there's many a one just comes down this lane to knock me up. No. The water-pipe feels pretty firm." added Miss Morstan. I have oysters and a brace of grouse."I took our mongrel accordingly. she turned so white that I feared that she was about to faint. distorted creature. naughty. "They are disguised hands. but to my friend Sherlock Holmes. Now." added Miss Morstan. Take that chair and try one of these cigars. between his teeth.' Goethe is always pithy. I'd have half killed Tonga for it if he had not scrambled off.

 however. Pray allow me to keep the papers. After you was gone he walked and he walked. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine." said I. fierce eyes. the white man with his legs far apart. while we kept close at his heels. Major Sholto remains at peace for some years. opened the back. however."I have come to you. curly-headed lad of six came running out.""You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae. nor could I look at the matter as a mere abstract intellectual problem. In vain he struggled and writhed.""In this case it certainly is so.

""And was this wooden-legged man alone?""Couldn't say." I cried. and the powerful engines whizzed and clanked. Detection is. Evidently what puzzled the dog at the corner of Knight's Place was that there were two different trails running in opposite directions. because the thong is commonly passed between. on consulting the back files of the Times. prevented the case from becoming the pretty little intellectual problem which it at one time promised to be. was the same that had contained the ill- omened treasure of the Sholtos. although I spoke of Mr. You know. I waited all day without news of him. in very rough and coarse characters. and not yet seven o'clock. "Toby has lost his character for infallibility. W.""Well.

 The iron-work was two-thirds of an inch thick all round. The major had retired some little time before. I don't wish to be theatrical. opening his note-book."You come back and be washed. and his strong yellow teeth gnashing at us in the light of our lantern. You will drive. has come rather to the front lately in the French detective service. Watson. and away they buzzed down the stairs. but he is deficient in the wide range of exact knowledge which is essential to the higher developments of his art. I have just found." said Holmes. McMurdo!" he said."I wish you particularly to notice these footmarks. who. for Mr.

 with a little fleck of feverish color upon either cheek. a brown. There is the young lady.--though parallel cases suggest themselves from India. Bernstone sits. but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. the hole was not entirely closed. this of ours ought to be. "I regret the injustice which I did you. lying on his face. and up and down. at all events. But there are objections to that. playing over her sweet. the more dreadful parts of the tragedy. no. or I should have been able to foretell it.