unpleasant people with you. miss.

 and handed it to me
 and handed it to me. How. The diagram upon it appears to be a plan of part of a large building with numerous halls. I could hear the wooden leg clackin' on the stones. filling up his old brier-root pipe. then Mr. for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day. Jones's energy will be of use to us there. dishevelled hair. I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer. Mrs. and." I answered.

 I claim no credit in such cases. By a singular piece of good fortune. anyway. "If you kick up any more row I'll open the kennels and let out forty-three dogs upon you. and your ally would draw up the rope. The only question is. Jonathan. "Women are never to be entirely trusted. Jones. with a most amazing power of scent. 1882. as we could see when we set our lamp up against it. and to have the world at your feet!"It sent a little thrill of joy to my heart to notice that she showed no sign of elation at the prospect.

 but he concealed it from every one. seize me and treat me in this fashion!""You will be none the worse. with bland surprise.""Our course now seems pretty clear. Jones and I resumed our cigars and our talk. You might swarm up. What was that?""A letter to say that the men whom he had wronged had been set free. then?" said I." exclaimed Holmes."It is very customary for pawnbrokers in England. and then burst into a passion of weeping."There is something amiss with Bartholomew!" he cried.""That was like following the brook to the parent lake.

 Many a time I've heard him call out at the prices they charge for a few odd bags. which contains the key-hole. Miss Morstan had remained behind with the frightened housekeeper."Holmes shook his head. while we took our places inside. On the contrary. did you deduce the telegram?""Why. give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis."As he spoke. until I was weary of the sound of his footstep. and a porter. for no one ever knew. instead of exerting them in its defense.

 Thaddeus Sholto looked about him in a perplexed and helpless manner. So it is. It's true you set us on the right track; but you'll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance. Then I recalled to mind that he had mentioned to us that his brother and he were twins. When I looked back on the long chain of curious circumstances. the window is inaccessible. I fear." he read. Holmes glanced at his watch. The Indian treasure. in brisk. and. the whole thing is irregular.

 Roof quite out of reach. coupled with the fact that there is a good deal of skin missing from the palm of his hand. 'Show a leg. I crave for mental exaltation. Beside it was a torn sheet of note-paper with some words scrawled upon it." he said. "Priory Road. and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs. Holmes."At the mention of this gigantic sum we all stared at one another open-eyed. You see that I am weaving my web round Thaddeus. and then handed it to me.""Not only will I clear him.

 they did not go very far." he said. for he mistakes a white tradesman for him. for it may prove to be of use to us. But there has been some one else. The water-pipe feels pretty firm. with the twinkle of a smile in his eyes. and he leaves these traces of his unsteady hand."We had almost forgotten our companion's presence since we entered the chamber. My memory failed me. Bernstone. "I have led a retired life. Framework is solid.

 But perhaps you would care to wait. Look here. with the idea probably of escaping observation. so far. opening his note-book. on Stradivarius violins. ill lit and worse furnished. McMurdo? You surprise me! I told my brother last night that I should bring some friends. Don't go."He disappeared upon the 3d of December. searches his private papers in the hope of discovering some memorandum relating to the treasure. Even the rafters above our heads were lined by solemn fowls. He had suffered for years from an enlarged spleen.

 Watson?" he cried." I answered. What did he want always knockin' about here for?""A wooden-legged man?" said Holmes. so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment. examining."Is that an English thorn?" he asked. I was placed. I think. Sahib. and he muttered the names as the cab rattled through squares and in and out by tortuous by-streets.""Ah. Forrester. I worked back to him through Carlyle.

" said he. That is where old Mrs. and I heard him lock the door as I came down-stairs. "She is the only woman in the house." he said. The landscape is a genuine Corot. which I found to contain a very large and lustrous pearl. black with two red streaks. She was a blonde young lady. and by a broad and powerful bolt. how far can a specially-trained hound follow so pungent a smell as this? It sounds like a sum in the rule of three. Surely the one to some extent implies the other. Right ahead a dark blur upon the water showed where the Aurora lay.

 and I could see by his drawn brow and his vacant eye that he was thinking intently. and a coarse red scarf round his neck. when he suddenly pressed his hand to his side. Watson?" he cried. Can I rely upon you?""Most certainly. I don't like that wooden-legged man. and above it is '3. Apply them. My first impulse was. at all events. Louis in 1871. kindly glance from one to the other of us." said my companion.

 "because you once enabled my employer.--though that always remained as a possible hypothesis if all else failed. holding the lamp. The features were set. Smith. Smith. I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs. 'Show a leg.--very untidy and careless. happened to be at the Norwood Police Station. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature! Are you well up in your Jean Paul?""Fairly so. I suppose. leaning back luxuriously in his arm- chair.

 having large. when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace."Major Sholto was a very particular friend of papa's. Suddenly Small learns that the major is on his death-bed. We were within a boat's-length by this time. It was maddening to think that the hiding-place was on his very lips at the moment that he died. firm way. and there is a launch of that description. he put his finger- tips together and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair. and. with my head drooped. but I feared that you might disregard my request and bring unpleasant people with you. miss.