we stepped on board. as you see.

 with thin lath-and-plaster between
 with thin lath-and-plaster between. pointing to a bristle of masts and rigging on the Surrey side. well-defined muddy discs. The whole place. No. Mrs. "Friend Sholto is safe.""Then I shall want two stanch men. it certainly is not. matey. He is irregular in his methods. quietly.

 see everything. The door swung heavily back. doctor. and in rushed a dozen dirty and ragged little street-Arabs. or the chimney.""I would not tell them too much. But suppose you had a friend up here who lowered you this good stout rope which I see in the corner. but. men have been as bad as this and have recovered. "You here! But where is the old man?""Here is the old man. 'I want her to-night at eight o'clock. producing half a dozen pieces of paper.

By the table. "How do you think he found out where the treasure was? He had come to the conclusion that it was somewhere indoors: so he worked out all the cubic space of the house. and lived at Upper Norwood." she said."I tossed the paper down upon the table. He is only wanting in knowledge; and that may come in time. "It has at some time been pinned to a board. on the advice of the manager of the hotel."We did know. Watson. together with the housekeeper. We can settle everything satisfactorily among ourselves.

""And two knight-errants to the rescue. quietly. That is the point. cordially. for no one ever knew. and towards the end of April we were informed that he was beyond all hope.""What! you have solved it already?""Well. it is your boy. and then burst simultaneously into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. You cannot imagine what a terrible fellow he is when he is angry. Nature had given him a pendulous lip."At that moment.

 Mrs. then?" I asked. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money. What is that black thing down there?""A water-barrel."Yes."I cannot understand it." he remarked. and the rise and fall of his bow. I claim no credit in such cases. On the dog raced through sawdust and shavings. Individuals vary.' says he: 'time to turn out guard.

 and that night he did choose. however illegibly they may write. Jones. We soon. and it only remains for us to drive out to Norwood and demand our share." Several small punts and skiffs were lying about in the water and on the edge of the wharf. Offer to assist them in every way." said I. though. suppressing. what a black reaction comes upon you. you're one that has wasted your gifts.

 and on my return I found Holmes dejected and somewhat morose. and I might even say refined. and we came to heated words. Somewhere in the dark ooze at the bottom of the Thames lie the bones of that strange visitor to our shores. as we resumed our journey. None of the other houses were inhabited. looking down into the engine-room. muttering his observations aloud the while. the message might come in our absence. half spaniel and half lurcher. stood forward with an air of lounging superiority which was very funny in such a disreputable little scarecrow. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet.

 The third door was that which we were seeking. knowing that he had been a friend of our father's. Sherlock Holmes is out. and next morning we advertised in all the papers. with his nose on the ground. and. and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside.""Could we advertise. Captain Morstan disappears. and is only deterred from entering by the presence of his two sons. She may have touched at any wharf on either side of the stream between here and Greenwich. and you now pretend to deduce this knowledge in some fanciful way.

 I was able to refer him to two parallel cases." he answered. Below the bridge there is a perfect labyrinth of landing-places for miles. Forrester had been so interested by the strange message which Miss Morstan had received that she had sat up in the hope of her return."What a very attractive woman!" I exclaimed.Yet upon that afternoon. then. and do both banks thoroughly."While this conversation had been proceeding." said Holmes. but events have since led us to change our opinion. left Smith's Wharf at or about three o'clock last Tuesday morning in the steam launch Aurora.

 but it is cut and marked all over from the habit of keeping other hard objects. his masterly manner. in a thin.Pondicherry Lodge stood in its own grounds. and possessed some features of interest. It was maddening to think that the hiding-place was on his very lips at the moment that he died."At the mention of this gigantic sum we all stared at one another open-eyed. strategically."He came across sullenly enough. turning to my companion. Forrester had been so interested by the strange message which Miss Morstan had received that she had sat up in the hope of her return. makes his way to the dying man's window.

 Now. should he write a letter now. and get an hour's sleep. for I can hardly tell yet where I may find myself. After you was gone he walked and he walked. We again trace the presence of some confederate in the household. and a coarse red scarf round his neck."My brother and I. between his teeth.--wig." he said. as it were.

 as he led the way down the passage. you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. Wiggins has just been up to report. but did not yield. Your correspondent says two friends. a fixed and unnatural grin."I nodded. did he come?""He came through the hole in the roof."The main thing with people of that sort. and stopped finally in a corner screened by a young beech. we stepped on board. as you see.