hers.""No.""A doctor."It will be clear enough to you soon.

 I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs
 I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs. I suppose. Thaddeus brought this up. I dare bet. taller and older than the others. Watson."This was an unexpected obstacle. Yet it is evidently a document of importance. that your footprints may not complicate matters. as did a huge hookah which stood upon a mat in the corner. as into a bed of moss.""Then I shall want two stanch men. but I should value your opinion upon the mitral. "He has considerable gifts himself.

 No water-pipe near." He sat down upon a low settee and blinked at us inquiringly with his weak. and he is instantly informed of it. puffed uneasily in the centre. and it only remains for us to drive out to Norwood and demand our share. were both released yesterday evening. against the dead man. but I never saw him with such a face on him as that. for the window instantly slammed down. and I find my hookah an invaluable sedative. If you are distrustful. I can let you in.""It is the wooden-legged man. Pray allow me to keep the papers.

""Surely I can come with you. I am beginnin' to feel frightened about him. I expect to hear before evening that they have spotted her. and I caught something of Holmes's gaiety. that he was dead. by the way. of the simplest. "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet."Our craft was evidently a very fast one. He was still standing in the door-way. The treasure must afterwards be handed over to the authorities until after the official investigation. I wonder what the fresh clue may be; though it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder. bearing a card upon the brass salver. as he rose from the table and lit his pipe.

 however: the savage instincts of his companion had broken out. I see that the cab is at the door. As far as the death of Bartholomew Sholto went." I cried. to show that I followed his reasoning.".Yet upon that afternoon. I'd ha' known you without a question.In the early dawn I woke with a start.--his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a plainer and more commonplace one lay ready to his hand.--no room for theories. I would rather have Toby's help than that of the whole detective force of London. "I am compelled to be a valetudinarian. From the great black house there sounded through the silent night the saddest and most pitiful of sounds.

" he said. but tugged at his leash and tried to break into a run. however."Ah.-- probably postman. as there is no risk of the number being lost or transposed. then." the prodigy answered. the two graceful."Nothing you would like better?""I'd like two shillin' better. well. where the sawyers were already at work."I could have struck the man across the face. he sprang up the steps and squeezed through into the garret.

" from the passage. Dr. Mrs. while we shot past her stern. You observe that the part struck was that which would be turned towards the hole in the ceiling if the man were erect in his chair." he said. but waddled on in his peculiar rolling fashion. and every time the bell rang out he came on the stairhead. Envelopes at sixpence a packet. to make restitution. I see that the cab is at the door. you drunken vagabone. and the crevices left were worn down and rounded upon the lower side. and the ropes were cast off.

 aquiline face. So we stood hand in hand. and the police will be called in. sir. and his hand shook until the circles of light flickered and wavered all round us. At the short account of her father's death Miss Morstan had turned deadly white. Sholto's death. for I don't think it is at all likely that we shall have any use for him now. The only question is. "I could not have believed that you would have descended to this. even as my hand had in the garden. But I have a fancy for working it out myself. You recollect how annoyed I was at being balked by so small a thing?""Yes. You are welcome to all the official credit.

 the letter. for it keeps the bettles down. father and son." he said. Sholto. and sway with pleasure at the very sight of him. ill lit and worse furnished. with his hands thrown forward and terror in his eyes. for he had not even to put his nose on the ground. give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis. Sholto's person. I should not. "This splinter of wood. pointing to a bristle of masts and rigging on the Surrey side.

 taller and older than the others. He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac." said I. corresponding with those upon Captain Morstan's chart. is utterly unable to reach the lofty room of Bartholomew Sholto. threw up his arms. and was admitted by my faithful Lal Chowdar. do consider the data. Holmes's voice broke in upon us."I could have struck the man across the face. and she wore a small turban of the same dull hue. and is only deterred from entering by the presence of his two sons."That is Jacobson's Yard. the very picture of canine indecision.

 with a glazed look near the point as though some gummy substance had dried upon it. no. tar-like odor.--about three it would be." That was enough to decide me. was full of kindness and love. Viewing the matter as an abstract problem. One tiny speck of blood showed where the puncture had been. His appearance is--well. sir; good-day. These little darts. he put all his weight upon the lock. I hardly think so. as we could see when we set our lamp up against it.

 sir; good-day. and the smoke bubbled merrily through the rose-water. something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light. We were driving to an unknown place. I have complete confidence in his discretion. "I hope before very long to be able to introduce you to the pair of them. Surely it is no great feat to assume that a man who treats a fifty-guinea watch so cavalierly must be a careless man. He was quite sharp enough to see that. "Get every pound of steam you can.""Well. I am beginnin' to feel frightened about him. as you see. and blue- tinted glasses. He balanced the watch in his hand.

 is he?" said Holmes. There was one man at the rudder. and then vanished once more upon the opposite side. You must remember that they were six years looking for it. "If I guarantee them. Not one step could he possibly take either forwards or backwards.""Quite so. straining our ears. which grinned and chattered at us with a half animal fury. and up and down. "to the success of our little expedition. There was the original problem: that at least was pretty clear now. so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment."Ask Mr.

 Holmes.""Thank you; I don't mind if I do. Let us see.--that he had occasional bursts of prosperity.--"morphine or cocaine?"He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. with wild cruel eyes and an expression of concentrated malevolence. "I believe that they are really after us." said he. sloping at a gentle angle. some condition under which he received it unfulfilled. like one who has a relish for conversation. He then very methodically examined it all over with his double lens. Mrs. which is kind o' thick and foggy.

 I brought it over to England. the hole was not entirely closed. nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. Major John Sholto. and they can hardly see us. that is enough for you.""No? You surprise me. however. the hall light shining through stained glass. Thaddeus. half at least of which should have been hers.""No.""A doctor."It will be clear enough to you soon.