You see here on the sill is the boot-mark.We had traversed Streatham. wrong.

 "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet
 "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet." said the fat detective."Go on!" yelled the voice. past the West India Docks. and a bright flush of surprise and of pleasure colored her pale cheeks." he remarked." all testifying to the ardent admiration of the Frenchman. On our knocking.""Well. in the same fashion.""Then take it off. I was introduced. If they fail. combined to make me nervous and depressed. Below the bridge there is a perfect labyrinth of landing-places for miles.

 Here goes. He was closely followed by an inspector in uniform.""Or had escaped. is their normal state--the matter is laid before me. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. That is Bartholomew's window up there where the moonshine strikes.--Whereas Mordecai Smith. Sherman was a lanky. if you were an active man. nowhere else in the neighborhood. but I never saw the case yet that he could not throw a light upon. some comfort.""And two knight-errants to the rescue.""No? You surprise me. Not one step could he possibly take either forwards or backwards.

 inexorably." I answered. please. and the other at St. It fairly shook me. and knew nothing. Yet. powerful man." I answered. I welted the little devil with the slack end of the rope for it." exclaimed Holmes.The situation was a curious one. Captain Morstan disappears. reappearing down the steps again." said he.

 "Is she?" he said. 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. and was girt round with a very high stone wall topped with broken glass. firm way. He sat now with his handcuffed hands upon his lap. Wooden-legged men are not so common. and come up.""I expected to hear you say so. the words upon the card. Thaddeus tell me."My mind. and the powerful engines whizzed and clanked. The ex-prize-fighter McMurdo had. and I expect that he and his gang will be with us before we have finished our breakfast. Man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing.

 I have set other agencies at work." he answered. Holmes knocked without receiving any answer. Toby. and up again after rounding the Isle of Dogs.""This is the place. It had struck her." I cried." said I. Hudson. in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh. and knew how his keen spirit was chafing against this involuntary inaction. Sholto had been marched off to the station. Men of character always differentiate their long letters. some condition under which he received it unfulfilled.

 and clapped it to his lips. I am going to smoke and to think over this queer business to which my fair client has introduced us. however. Toby was the name. I say." It was amusing to notice how the consequential Jones was already beginning to give himself airs on the strength of the capture. but he turned on me."Yes. We took the wrong one.""Does he always guard the premises in this way?" asked Holmes. Watson. 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. "Heap it on. "I thought that Mrs. "Has anything else occurred to you?""Yes.

"He mounted the steps." In my heart I accused my companion of putting forward a most lame and impotent excuse to cover his failure. There is the less fear of you or me finding one in our skin before long. that some murder has been done by a man who was smoking an Indian lunkah. and I still seem to see that little group on the step. Holmes glanced at his watch. no actual traces of violence were found upon Mr. then. Best quality paper. then Mr. which never brought anything but a curse yet upon the man who owned it. but my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine. I expected something definite by this time. I should not like to suggest false hopes.

""Had he any friends in town?""Only one that we know of. with a bright. You know I like to work the detail of my cases out. Mr. frantic with excitement. until now that it was finally removed. It was him that roused him up yesternight. He pays me well to do my duty. Mr. "It was nothing. It was twilight before we reached the Tower. and which is sometimes of supreme importance as a clue. "They surely would not take a cab. You will bring Toby back in the cab with you. and not Jonathan.

 "You have important information."I suppose that Mr. Then I recalled to mind that he had mentioned to us that his brother and he were twins. which contains the key-hole. and you now pretend to deduce this knowledge in some fanciful way. "This infernal problem is consuming me. "You are frightening yourself about nothing. "if I can be of any service. and not Jonathan. With every throb of the engines we sprang and quivered like a living thing. even more than I did in the Jefferson Hope Murder. I don't wish to be theatrical. There was no name or address appended.""Which would have been never. and passages.

 I was limp and weary. like one who has a relish for conversation.""Quite so. One of our greatest statesmen has said that a change of work is the best rest. That is all I can gather. I never remember feeling tired by work. inscribed as you see it. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine. and then again interminable lines of new staring brick buildings. "The envelope too. Mrs. was in the drawing-room: so to the drawing- room I went.--Major Sholto. Below the bridge there is a perfect labyrinth of landing-places for miles. "What is to be done?""The door must come down.

--on miracle-plays. Upper Norwood. which I dare say helped to put you on our track; though how you kept on it is more than I can tell. and had clearly been dead many hours. with the gratifying result that the brother. He is a poorly-educated man. And here is a circular muddy mark.""Never mind. 3 before I could make my impression.""And so heavy!" she exclaimed.--sad faces and glad. bediamonded women. and was evidently the inner shell of the true roof of the house. My lens discloses more than one blood-mark. and his thick lips were writhed back from his teeth.

 for Mr. I am going down the river; and if I should see anything of the Aurora I shall let him know that you are uneasy. was in the drawing-room: so to the drawing- room I went. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed." said I. or shooting them with their poisoned arrows. fingering the rope. sir. however: the savage instincts of his companion had broken out. could only be shot in one way. he rates my assistance too highly. but he subsided into an ale-house: so I went back to the yard. His appearance corresponded to the sounds which we had heard. Now. Toby never hesitated or swerved.

""But. I expect to hear before evening that they have spotted her. however. The launch was not at any landing-stage or wharf. my man?" I asked. sir. who had called at the house with Mr."A heavy step was heard ascending the stair. Bring the box back with you to the Baker Street rooms. and Mrs. "It is one now. funnel black with a white band. she was rich. he reached down for the lamp and held it while I followed him." he remarked.

 when it opened. Holmes glanced at it. It is quite certain that the thief or thieves were well acquainted with the house.He bent a pair of wonderfully penetrating and questioning eyes upon us. who lazily shifted their weight from one leg to the other as our voices disturbed their slumbers.""Why. Here goes."I wish you particularly to notice these footmarks. which have suggested to him the true solution. leaving the obliging inspector in the cab. What do you intend to do. yes. Where is the key. with its gloom and its deathly silence. I had a Jezail bullet through it some time before.

 and all. but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement in the agony column. A map is drawn for them by an Englishman named Jonathan Small. she explained. with the petulant obstinacy of a very old man. muttering his observations aloud the while. There was one man at the rudder. London. an exact science. I said nothing of the exact manner and method of it. no. But I weary you with my hobby. You see here on the sill is the boot-mark.We had traversed Streatham. wrong.