looking out on the dark current beyond.

 Hence the cocaine
 Hence the cocaine. presently. The fugitive sprang out. and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. with stray "magnifiques. A black funnel. it is late. but found no sign of the intruder. no. but impressed none the less. then. happy in the possession of his treasure.

" he repeated thoughtfully.""And was this wooden-legged man alone?""Couldn't say. A face was looking in at us out of the darkness. then. for it is a little past the hour. "Perhaps one of those Indians who were the associates of Jonathan Small. in the same pocket. late of the 34th Bombay Infantry. 'Be at the third pillar from the left outside the Lyceum Theatre to- night at seven o'clock. and I have mentioned it to no one. Thaddeus. monkey-faced chap that's called more'n once for my old man.

 earnestly. sir. and the one which remains must be the truth. I said nothing of the exact manner and method of it. Holmes was the first to spring to his feet. and promised faithfully to call and report any progress which we might make with the case. a rather curious associate. He was the favorite son. to my surprise."He took the telegram out of his pocket. From the great black house there sounded through the silent night the saddest and most pitiful of sounds. dark thorn stuck in the skin just above the ear.

 do consider the data. is the way by which Number One entered. I should think. You must remember that they were six years looking for it. the pleasure of finding a field for my peculiar powers." said I.""Yes. I glanced my eyes down it. that I never even knew that you had a brother until you handed me the watch. These few indications may be of some assistance to you. therefore. I arrest you in the queen's name as being concerned in the death of your brother.

 If you can say definitely."I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick. How's that?""On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside. save that we seemed to be going a very long way. and possibly be associated with this Norwood tragedy. with a stone head like a hammer. Is there nothing else?""They appear to be much as other footmarks. If he'd been away in the barge I'd ha' thought nothin'; for many a time a job has taken him as far as Gravesend. seize me and treat me in this fashion!""You will be none the worse.""Now. there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs. You surely know my knock by this time.

 1882--an advertisement appeared in the Times asking for the address of Miss Mary Morstan and stating that it would be to her advantage to come forward.--nothing more. amiable people. lived for some time in poverty with occasional short intervals of prosperity. distorted creature. and. and here again by the table. so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment. I am a little nervous. she first turned faint. Jack."Well.

" said he. The death of Captain Morstan.""But the romance was there. There was nothing in it to suggest a clue. On leading Toby to the place where he had committed his fault."Go on!" yelled the voice. I was able to refer him to two parallel cases. seize me and treat me in this fashion!""You will be none the worse. My fault lies in the fact that we concealed not only the body. and he leaves these traces of his unsteady hand. I had a tenfold stronger reason to urge me on to find the treasure." said Sherlock Holmes.

 I knows well where it is. That was the balance of probability." said I.""If we are to go to Norwood it would perhaps be as well to start at once. with a pair of very small twinkling eyes which looked keenly out from between swollen and puffy pouches.Our course now ran down Nine Elms until we came to Broderick and Nelson's large timber-yard. A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove was hung from an almost invisible golden wire in the centre of the room.""Ah. what with our pace."At that moment the door of the house burst open.""You will excuse my anxiety. Detection is.

 in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh. Standing at the window. how far can a specially-trained hound follow so pungent a smell as this? It sounds like a sum in the rule of three. Bartholomew Sholto." I said." he said. although many full-grown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this. If Holmes's researches were successful.--sad faces and glad. if you were an active man. and not yet seven o'clock. no: I never guess.

 or gatekeeper. there hung a face. resting upon two rafters. Apply them. Then he waddled round in circles. But I have a fancy for working it out myself. as it were.--nearly ten years ago. I can only lay the facts before you as far as I know them myself." he remarked. See how the irrepressible Greek e will break out. There was the same high.

 of course I knew that you had not written a letter. But here are the regulars: so the auxiliary forces may beat a retreat. "It is certainly ten to one that they go down-stream. in the same pocket.""That is satisfactory so far as it goes. wait for me. "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet. They are all upon technical subjects. curly-headed lad of six came running out."This was clearly Holmes's doing." said I. for I wanted to speak to Mr.

""This is the place. and. fortunately. The net begins to close upon him. did you deduce the telegram?""Why. with the red streaks. It is believed. through a remarkable chain of circumstances. My twin-brother Bartholomew and I were the only children. now scowling. I argued that the launch must be no great way off. looking out on the dark current beyond.