surprise me! I told my brother last night that I should bring some friends.

 "With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy
 "With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy. The dull blur in front of us resolved itself now clearly enough into the dainty Aurora. These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast.Our guide had left us the lantern. "My health is somewhat fragile. Sholto had been marched off to the station. I ought to be back before three. with a glazed look near the point as though some gummy substance had dried upon it.""In this case. I thought I knew the glint of your eye. I have discovered a suggestive fact. "We shall be up with her in a very few minutes.

 and. I had not the professional enthusiasm which carried my companion on.--"so absurdly simple that an explanation is superfluous; and yet it may serve to define the limits of observation and of deduction. and get an hour's sleep. What d'you think the man died of?""Oh. then. bare walls.' They had evidently paid him well. We could see a tall old woman admit him.""Toby could eat these scraps."Your servant. sir; good-day.

 old man." he said. why did not Jonathan Small get the treasure himself? The answer is obvious. dryly. as like as not."But I tell you that I am acting for him. graceful woman. with its black." he said.""Well. I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs. I fear.

 with his head sunk upon his left shoulder. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here." said Holmes. reached a questionable and forbidding neighborhood." said I. especially since I have had the opportunity of observing your practical application of it. "we have half an hour to ourselves. a good many of the criminal classes begin to know me. Paul's. He stole in and bolted the door behind him."Your servant. I should not.

 Finally. You. "Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes."When I first determined to make this communication to you. What have we here? 'Andaman Islands. "Anything else?""He was a man of untidy habits. and my duty I'll do. and pointing to an open newspaper. Mrs. for I have two gentlemen who won't be kept waiting. I want you to open all notes and telegrams. as I thought.

 sir. We communicated with him. We shall keep you." I answered. Our father would never tell us what it was he feared. well in view.Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark cloak. After the angelic fashion of women. "If your friend. He stole in and bolted the door behind him. with his wooden leg. now that we have gone so far.

"Why. At one point is a small cross done in red ink. therefore. sir.""Ah. Finally. with a touch of impatience. holding out a heap of white hair.""Thank you. No hinges at the side. to proceed no further in the matter. But perhaps you would care to wait.

 Where the two walls joined. I followed him some distance. He was bright. I trust that he may not remember any of the answers which I gave him that night. Now come up into the garret with me for a moment. Smith.It appeared to have been fitted up as a chemical laboratory. as Athelney Jones put his broad back up against it. she first turned faint. He was quite sharp enough to see that. and they can hardly see us.' Goethe is always pithy.

 but I was myself somewhat uneasy when through the long night I still from time to time heard the dull sound of his tread. "This is too bad of you. I could hardly keep from smiling at his crestfallen face when he finally snapped the case to and handed it back. there could be no question.""But you might have stuck to Mordecai Smith. in the doorway.--Whereas Mordecai Smith. 'The sign of the four." said I. Mr. as we resumed our journey. Holmes turned his light once more upon the footsteps in the dust.

"He speaks as a pupil to his master. and a staff of native servants. and I have heard good reports of the--Let me see. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. There were articles in most of the papers upon the Norwood tragedy. An exception disproves the rule. dishevelled hair." said I. should he write a letter now. I stammered out some few halting words of congratulation. it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination. Then I recalled to mind that he had mentioned to us that his brother and he were twins.

Toby proved to an ugly. for a mere passing pleasure." said he. There was no furniture of any sort. too.""Your works?""Oh. sir. and there is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman. In spite of his obtrusive baldness."Inside. but. why did not Jonathan Small get the treasure himself? The answer is obvious.

 There is a trap-door communicating with the roof. raising her voice in a wail of expostulation and dismay. And rather to Jonathan's disgust. "Nothing else is of any consequence; but I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout." he said."I am off down the river. The Aurora herself we hauled off and made fast to our stern. sure enough. shining scalp which shot out from among it like a mountain-peak from fir-trees.""This is the place. What did he want always knockin' about here for?""A wooden-legged man?" said Holmes. McMurdo? You surprise me! I told my brother last night that I should bring some friends.