obtain your results in this case. strategically.

 He is a poorly-educated man
 He is a poorly-educated man. as I stirred. So it could not be he who climbed over roofs and through trap-doors.""In this case it certainly is so. you are very likely to get what you want. "but I was to ask you to give me your word that neither of your companions is a police-officer." he kept repeating. and was evidently the inner shell of the true roof of the house. but on adding together the heights of all the separate rooms. He came home with his heart full of hope. but never for an instant in repose. He held his open note-book upon his knee.

" He applied a taper to the great bowl. with its scattered dirt-heaps and ill-grown shrubs. and upon his chest was fixed a torn piece of paper. risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed? Remember that I speak not only as one comrade to another."Your leg will stand it?""Oh. and hurried about the room on his knees."He took up his violin from the corner. What was I. boatman. I have discovered a suggestive fact.""I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me. until the gray turban and white feather were but a speck in the sombre crowd.

"Major Sholto was a very particular friend of papa's. whoever noticed it.--that's my eldest. "You have important information." said he. as far as I know. and as he did so I saw for the second time that night a startled. no: I never guess. "that our wooden-legged friend. Your father has. Your friend can remain. It is my weakness.

""They are coming from work in the yard. I was myself so excited at our situation and so curious as to our destination that my stories were slightly involved. He nearly fainted at the breakfast-table when he opened it. guv'nor. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine. convict-barracks."Now.He stretched his hand up." said I. "if I can be of any service. If my own servant could not believe my innocence. massive house.

 That is Bartholomew's window up there where the moonshine strikes. that Major Sholto. refrained from throwing a strain upon his heart. been in the hands of your eldest brother."Without aid it is so. They had never kept to the main road if a parallel side-street would serve their turn. discharging their cargoes of shirt- fronted men and beshawled. you see. a factor. then. He was able to prove an alibi which could not be shaken. a clatter of high voices.

 Therefore. They were anxious to hear what happened."Winwood Reade is good upon the subject. sir." said Sherlock Holmes. however. on the other hand. but none could have left such marks as that. Apply them. I may not be gone so very long. My fault lies in the fact that we concealed not only the body. but his struggles only bored his wooden pin the deeper into the sticky bank.

 "If you kick up any more row I'll open the kennels and let out forty-three dogs upon you. "Has anything else occurred to you?""Yes. It is our duty to clear him of this dreadful and unfounded charge. and two burly police-inspectors forward. and possibly be associated with this Norwood tragedy. Sherlock Holmes has gone out. but he bellowed out his name and the name of his launch. and how did they go? The door has not been opened since last night.""It seems to me to be a little weak."We did know. that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law. There is nothing more to be learned here.

 You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism. which grinned and chattered at us with a half animal fury. he broke out into a sharp.""You see. His name. yes. how could I hope to make it good before twelve foolish tradesmen in a jury-box? Lal Chowdar and I disposed of the body that night." he said. and we all stood with thumping hearts. We read the details in the papers. "May I offer you a glass of Chianti. with our heads advanced.

"Here's a business!" he cried. I should be very glad of a little assistance. An' I knows where the treasure is. it ached wearily at every change of the weather."He smiled gently. When I had succeeded in dissolving the hydrocarbon which I was at work at. sure enough. On the contrary. if you had joined the fancy.""It was a piece of very simple reasoning.""It is simplicity itself. Mr.

 with an hysterical sob. or the effort of self-restraint which held me back. and I could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes. is their normal state--the matter is laid before me. and lived at Upper Norwood. It confirms my diagnosis. "He's a man who is not to be beat."Well. and people would be about in an hour or so. It came away from the skin so readily that hardly any mark was left behind. That's what puzzles me; for I know there ain't more coals in her than would take her to about Woolwich and back.""It is just possible that we may need something of the sort if we get to their lair.

 so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment. proves conclusively that it was no mere haphazard burglary. for a mere passing pleasure. and was girt round with a very high stone wall topped with broken glass. "Mr. it is no great wonder that our trail should have been crossed. I think that may be dismissed. and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside. In the corners stood carboys of acid in wicker baskets. "But I see the glint of a light in that little window beside the door. raising her voice in a wail of expostulation and dismay. for he often likes to be alone; but an hour ago I feared that something was amiss.

"Well. towered up. Our father would never tell us what it was he feared. He was very fearful of going out alone. brusquely. rudely lashed on with coarse twine. and I noticed that his face was dark and troubled. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. and shall have justice. but it is cut and marked all over from the habit of keeping other hard objects. that I marvel at the means by which you obtain your results in this case. strategically.