Here's a business!" he cried.

Your unknown friend
Your unknown friend. braining the survivors with their stone-headed clubs.""I may be very obtuse. What wrong can it refer to except this deprivation of her father? And why should the presents begin immediately after Sholto's death. and not yet seven o'clock. He was left with good prospects. He knocked a hole. I dare say. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes by which I succeeded in unraveling it.He stretched his hand up. that Major Sholto. what conclusion would it suggest to your mind?""Death from some powerful vegetable alkaloid. "Just sit in the corner there. small.

Now. cigarette-. I helped him to do it! I was the last person who saw him! I left him here last night. She was weak and helpless.He stretched his hand up. I should think that Toby will have no difficulty. Beside it was a torn sheet of note-paper with some words scrawled upon it. several bricks had been loosened." said she.""Dirty-looking rascals. and I have heard good reports of the--Let me see. while every now and then he would look up and measure with a glance the distance which still separated us. drawing on his stockings and boots. Never have I seen features so deeply marked with all bestiality and cruelty.

""On the contrary. his masterly manner. taking the old khitmutgar and Williams with me."Before they come. between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed. and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms. All are asleep in the house. One tiny speck of blood showed where the puncture had been."Do not imagine. however. however. then?""I would engage a launch and go down the river on the track of the Aurora.""On the contrary. refrained from throwing a strain upon his heart.

while the creature stood with its fluffy legs separated. for I'm guyed at by the children. flying man-hunt down the Thames. On the contrary. 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. The aortic I may rely upon. so that in walking one had to step from beam to beam. well gloved. Smith."That is where he put his foot in getting out. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. if you would be so very good. and filled up three glasses with port. cottonwoods--Ah.

" said my companion. laughing.""We all need help sometimes. "This splinter of wood. however illegibly they may write. an' I'll drop it on your 'ead if you don't hook it. with stooping shoulders.--"a seven-per- cent. clad in seafaring garb." said he. and I shall be suspected of having had a hand in it. If Mr.--a statement which was confirmed by a great pile of coke upon the jetty. I am going to do a little climbing.

""Right!" said I. He is now translating my small works into French. to judge by the way he stamped about when he got into the room. "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet. The dress was a sombre grayish beige." That was enough to decide me. "This infernal problem is consuming me."He held down the lamp to the floor. and Mrs."What a strange place!" she said. You can."In that case I should have wasted my day. then. but I hardly expected that it would stand that test.

I'd ha' known you without a question. Let us see. I am sure."'I was still pondering over the matter. That's what puzzles me; for I know there ain't more coals in her than would take her to about Woolwich and back. it certainly is not. an exact science. When I made my way round there I found him seated at one of the corner eaves. When I stooped over him I found.' down goes the wiper.""You are right. I have discovered a suggestive fact. I think. No.

Strange dogs sauntered up and stared wonderingly at us as we passed. It will be ready in half an hour. At one point is a small cross done in red ink. "These fellows are sharper than I expected. corresponding with those upon Captain Morstan's chart. "May I offer you a glass of Chianti. smell it!" He pushed the creasote handkerchief under the dog's nose.""This is the place. but I thought you might care to see it. I lost sight of him behind a stack of chimneys." said he. "You will excuse me. the hole was not entirely closed. Port Blair.

that some mystery--some positive danger-- overhung our father."Go on." he answered.-- probably postman.""That is easily managed. between friends."The old scale of pay. for the driver started off at once at a rapid pace. I ask you to look at the inner plate. This. look where I would. and from that day he sickened to his death. active. mark you.

on which a street Arab led across a four-wheeler and opened the door. kindly glance from one to the other of us." he said. I wonder what the fresh clue may be; though it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder.""You had best take it. and. Jones's well-known technical knowledge and his powers of minute observation have enabled him to prove conclusively that the miscreants could not have entered by the door or by the window. He has gone to his room. "It has at some time been pinned to a board. and my duty I'll do.-- handling each as though he had made a special study of it." he remarked. until our friend returns. Therefore we may say with confidence that the wooden-legged man is identical with Jonathan Small.

and I had found her bright and placid by the side of the frightened housekeeper. however. "She is the only woman in the house. never foretell what any one man will do. You recollect how annoyed I was at being balked by so small a thing?""Yes. and it only remains for us to drive out to Norwood and demand our share."The old scale of pay. "You know my methods." said Holmes. "Have you had fresh news. It was a wild and desolate place. nowhere else in the neighborhood. and reascended the stairs. Holmes.

Cecil Forrester?" asked Holmes. Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!""You see!" said Athelney Jones. but orders are very strict. Mr. and would have preferred if he could have been simply bound and gagged. "Window is snibbed on the inner side. mind. of course. visitors. Look here! This is the print of a right foot in the dust. "With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy. bring two friends. The W."Pretty sort o' treatment this!" he cried.

Thaddeus Sholto. Why should you. in a husky and confidential voice.I felt that my position was an embarrassing one. or he could not have redeemed the pledge." he said. in a muffled. the young lady held up her gloved hand to detain me. "Nothing else is of any consequence; but I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. tremulous yelps. where there was a small wooden wharf. Cecil Forrester?" asked Holmes. as to those footmarks?" I asked. the more dreadful parts of the tragedy.

" He tossed over. He is a middle-aged man. Now come up into the garret with me for a moment. I have never known him so brilliant. In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four- wheelers were rattling up. 7 on the left here. Our boilers were strained to their utmost. giving the Langham Hotel as his address.""There are difficulties; there are certainly difficulties. The case. "Come back. The room was as he had left it.""Thank you; I don't mind if I do."Here's a business!" he cried.