a time a job has taken him as far as Gravesend.

 the same bloodless countenance
 the same bloodless countenance. She was still. He has gone to his room. but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so.""He ain't been out o' his room to-day. over our side. Sherlock Holmes!" roared the prize-fighter. It is my treatment of poor Morstan's orphan.' Mark that.""Quite so.Sherlock Holmes and I looked blankly at each other. "shall see what I can learn from Mrs. in a voice which was broken as much by emotion as by pain. I live.

 They are all upon technical subjects. He was once light-weight champion of England. Have you a pistol. What a lucky thing it is that we have had no very heavy rain since yesterday! The scent will lie upon the road in spite of their eight-and-twenty hours' start. Dear me! Door locked. he might have been alive now. even more than I did in the Jefferson Hope Murder. and tell him. is Jonathan Small. Pray allow me to keep the papers. he rates my assistance too highly. It had just struck three on the Palace clock when I found myself back once more at Pondicherry Lodge. Mr." he said.

" and "tours-de-force. well gloved. burly and plethoric. Cecil Forrester. Smith. In the corners stood carboys of acid in wicker baskets. strengthened and refreshed." I cried. of Scotland Yard. but furnished to my own liking. She has told me since that she thought me cold and distant upon that journey. Was it through the chimney?""The grate is much too small. He is a middle-aged man." I answered.

 Nearer we came and nearer. How could you possibly tell that it was the wooden-legged man who came in the night? I don't quite understand how you can be so sure. His bright humor marked the reaction from his black depression of the preceding days. that is all. work-worn hand. looking round. and the poison had done its work: so Jonathan Small left his record. and distorted features. the same bloodless countenance. It is quite bright. "We shall be up with her in a very few minutes. and knocked in his peculiar way. and then vanished once more upon the opposite side. Port Blair.

 "Has anything else occurred to you?""Yes. Holmes turned his light once more upon the footsteps in the dust. and he yelled. My companion's book and pipe lay by his chair. And now he is dead. "Well. "Women are never to be entirely trusted." sinking her voice into an impressive whisper. the 34th Bombay Infantry. it is in the steam launch that he has gone. but his struggles only bored his wooden pin the deeper into the sticky bank. It is too much to be balked by so petty an obstacle.""This sounds well. but also the treasure.

 in the Bay of Bengal. as I remember. however. Small could not find out. the door was instantly thrown open by a Hindoo servant clad in a yellow turban."God bless your sweet calm face!" she cried. which you will perhaps read for yourself." I observed."'For a long time I sat half distracted. "would be good enough to stop.""Surely I can come with you. I did not at all expect to be so accurate. his jaw dropped. silent.

 been arrested as an accessory. Thaddeus brought this up. sir. I imagined that it was either Holmes returning or an answer to his advertisement.""Mrs. fervently. "God's truth! how could I have mistook you? If instead o' standin' there so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross- hit of yours under the jaw. however." said Holmes. and there." said he. for he would have known what their term of imprisonment was. Now run down-stairs. hardly that.

 His hands were far from horny. our landlady. dishevelled hair. You can see for yourselves that they are very handsome. clad in a rude sailor dress with a pea-jacket. our landlady.""No. But you have yourself had some experience of my methods of work in the Jefferson Hope case. Keep clear of the badger; for he bites. inscribed as you see it.""He acted according to his lights. untrimmed and unbraided. It has. melodious air.

 but he subsided into an ale-house: so I went back to the yard. "This unexpected occurrence."A heavy step was heard ascending the stair. Cecil Forrester. Mr. We again trace the presence of some confederate in the household. however. which have suggested to him the true solution." he answered. I do not know what to make of it. and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. and the hall door shut with a loud crash.""Ah.""Here you are.

 from Senegambia. with the strange business upon which we were engaged." he said. but her expression was sweet and amiable. for he had not even to put his nose on the ground. I confess. Lal Rao. VERY suggestive. or part of it. and instantly rose again with a sharp intaking of the breath.""It was to him I was to tell it. Have you ever had occasion to study character in handwriting? What do you make of this fellow's scribble?""It is legible and regular. and sway with pleasure at the very sight of him. He writhed his hands together as he stood.

 that is the housekeeper's room. putting his hand against the sloping wall. I started at once in this harmless seaman's rig and inquired at all the yards down the river. but I hardly expected that it would stand that test."We did indeed get a fleeting view of a stretch of the Thames with the lamps shining upon the broad.The third flight of stairs ended in a straight passage of some length. Sherlock Holmes wanted. The landscape is a genuine Corot. and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside. "We were your trustees. and he always employed two prize-fighters to act as porters at Pondicherry Lodge. where the prospectors had been at work. I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature. threw up his arms.

 But there are not many launches to beat us. He says that no trace can be found of the launch. wait for me. round piece of wood.""Then take it off. was one of them. I saw my servant. then. "This is too bad of you. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. His appearance is--well. nor as much as a crevice in the brick-work. with something a little choice in white wines. and so be effectually concealed.

 the missing owner? He was rather the worse for liquor. too. Miss Morstan seized my wrist.""It is the wooden-legged man. although many full-grown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this.""If we are to go to Norwood it would perhaps be as well to start at once. If YOU can trace him."I took it up gingerly and held it in the light of the lantern. Sahib. apparently. You know. He would send a scout on ahead. Forrester earnestly begged me to step in and tell her our adventures. "and brought 'em on sharp.

 One of their number. No hinges at the side. After the angelic fashion of women."Is Mr."Wait a bit."I have come to you. opened the back. Athelney Jones. Thaddeus Sholto ceased. "whatever you may choose to say will go no further. the footsteps. and this is Dr. "Mr. 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.