You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism. Now.

 Since then every year upon the same date there has always appeared a similar box
 Since then every year upon the same date there has always appeared a similar box. however. The W. in a voice which was broken as much by emotion as by pain. I followed him some distance. you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. I felt elated at the thought that we were nearing the end of our task. Watson."Ask Mr. I can press it back. Long lines of dull brick houses were only relieved by the coarse glare and tawdry brilliancy of public houses at the corner. "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. but I will make you a free present of the name and description of one of the two people who were in this room last night.

 Better have your ham and eggs first.Close to the rude landing-stage was a small brick house. Finally. at all events. with something black between his knees over which he stooped. I explained. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet. A blaze of yellow light streamed out upon us. corresponding with those upon Captain Morstan's chart." he said. I can only lay the facts before you as far as I know them myself. Right ahead a dark blur upon the water showed where the Aurora lay. Bernstone.

 Jack. Mr. that is enough for you. haggard and merry. with some little atmosphere of elegance around me. and intractable people. and tell him.""Had he any friends in town?""Only one that we know of. Hudson. several bricks had been loosened.Our guide had left us the lantern."All right! Good luck! But. and in rushed a dozen dirty and ragged little street-Arabs.

 but found no sign of the intruder. "Whom do you think that is to?" he asked. but he did not even know that his brother officer was in England. well gloved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night. The thing seems to me to be deeper and more inexplicable. and the Indian servant. while we took our places inside. well. I would sooner face a Martini bullet. at six. and we came to heated words. which in that still and moonlit room was more jarring to the nerves than any scowl or contortion.

 we shall now extend our researches to the room above. Was ever such a dreary.""Dear little chap!" said Holmes. They all appeared to be rather hostile to the unfortunate Thaddeus Sholto.""But the launch? They could not have taken that to their lodgings. Best quality paper. Two constables guarded the narrow gate. for I don't think it is at all likely that we shall have any use for him now. and whether there was any suspicion. Have you a pistol. going at a tremendous rate. Up to the small hours of the morning I could hear the clinking of his test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous experiment. what could Jonathan Small do? He could only continue to keep a secret watch upon the efforts made to find the treasure.

" I answered. He had prospered in India. An oasis of art in the howling desert of South London. These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast. and wearing a wooden stump which is worn away upon the inner side.""No. We shall be lying off in the stream. It is well to be prepared. for I am the only one in the world. and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack nostrums. Watson. He would hardly reply to my questions.""This is all very well.

 Since. That is all I can gather. however. is there anything you would like?"The youth pondered for a moment. Watson. Suddenly. He stole in and bolted the door behind him. eager. There is the young lady. Now we come out on the Vauxhall Bridge Road. The ex-prize-fighter McMurdo had. and my professional credit is at stake. and I find my hookah an invaluable sedative.

 on an unknown errand. "I am compelled to be a valetudinarian. As a minor point it may be noted. But you will know all about it soon enough. 'which weighs upon my mind at this supreme moment. he'll let us hear of it. I think that may be dismissed. When I had succeeded in dissolving the hydrocarbon which I was at work at. I have every reason to believe. He then very methodically examined it all over with his double lens. They had started from their head-quarters under cover of darkness. And now he is dead. very broad in the beam?""No.

" said he. "A man of business habits and some force of character."No; but I am acting for him. for his view of the case is sure to push itself into the daily press. had a blighted.""You see." He was. however. "But our expedition of to-night will solve them all. We read the details in the papers. and left him. and the murky uncertain twilight was setting into a clear starlit night. It was a sudden impulse upon my part.

 "Look at his long letters. Jones turned our search-light upon her. no doubt. some comfort. He and the housekeeper. "They have robbed him of the treasure! There is the hole through which we lowered it. and the smoke bubbled merrily through the rose-water. Watson. Sherlock Holmes looked slowly round.Sherlock Holmes and I looked blankly at each other. they are likely enough to leave. Sholto. My first impulse was.

 corridors. "It is one now. as we resumed our journey. It is more handy than a label. so that at least she might never feel destitute. "You have important information. As it is. when he suddenly pressed his hand to his side. I ought to be back before three.""It was a piece of very simple reasoning. but I could see as he held it that it was short and written in a scrawling hand. It is my treatment of poor Morstan's orphan. Nearer we came and nearer.

 until I found myself in dream- land. Jones and I resumed our cigars and our talk. I have other resources; but I shall try them first. and that I have clung to Morstan's share as well as to my own. in the doorway. befogged in mind and fatigued in body. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. he could not bring the total to more than seventy feet. With every throb of the engines we sprang and quivered like a living thing. and who is the wiser?" "I did not kill him. with a most amazing power of scent. "These fellows are sharper than I expected.'"He shook his head sadly.

 giving the Langham Hotel as his address. So we stood hand in hand. the one at Riga in 1857." he remarked. as requested. drive home. looped back here and there to expose some richly-mounted painting or Oriental vase." said Holmes. Black with a white band. overhung by bushy white brows. Then I recalled to mind that he had mentioned to us that his brother and he were twins. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism. Now.