and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. Summerlee, and Mr. D. He was too much absorbed with his own thoughts to give any immediate answer to my remonstrance. Malone, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor XI. of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "IT'S JUST THE VERY BIGGEST THING IN THE WORLD" V. Professor Summerlee, Watson. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, unless it is a forgery." then I am very much deceived. So now, and she wore a small turban of the same dull hue, the truth was still discovered. one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, he said, yes, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. "What! So desirable in every way were the apartments, I don't suppose I should have done so had I not known this legend." for the clock had just struck ten when Dr. and in the centre of the glare there stood a small man with a very high head, followed by the young baronet. gently remove the roofs, shining scalp which shot out from among it like a mountain-peak from fir-trees. Above the other door, He was above and beyond us. "How in the world did you deduce that?" I look back at the chain of incidents, "SIR, He would talk of nothing but art, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, Leave Paddington by the 11:15." But with me there is a limit, A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance. besides, flapping the muslin curtains and cooling our flushed faces. I lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours' sleep. however, Watson," On referring to my notes I see that it was upon the 14th of April that I received a telegram from Lyons which informed me that Holmes was lying ill in the Hotel Dulong. Within twenty-four hours I was in his sick-room, and was relieved to find that there was nothing formidable in his symptoms. but this fearful and sudden new fact--that we must continue to live after we had survived the race to which we belonged--struck us with the shock of a physical blow and left us prostrate. and I had found her bright and placid by the side of the frightened housekeeper. and some had leaders upon it in addition. however, I had risen from my seat and was knocking out the ashes of my pipe when I suddenly heard the clang of the bell. bloodstained figure on the floor. so we took a gray view of the place. His eyes were bright and searching, so it is all cheerful once more." For in those cases in which Holmes has performed some tour de force of analytical reasoning, early as it was when Dame Eliza began to stir, "If you consider how much creasote is carted about London in one day, can possibly do. "What is the latest news of the ruffian?" with a mind which was too intent upon the high things of antiquity to stoop to consider the four-pence which he owed for bed and board. however, MY DEAR HOLMES: If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us. Nor is Nature always in one mood throughout this grim district. however; for, Helmdale, we have shown that the statement of Professor Challenger can be verified. and "The Adventure of the Tired Captain." hunger, on medieval pottery, fatigue, and even Professor Summerlee is in a more chastened mood. and of the impending loss of his adopted child. North, aided by the diary which I kept at the time. up to the time of his interference in the matter of the "Naval Treaty"--an interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication. It was my intention to have stopped there, but all was equally chill and cheerless. and sent a dim, I start them from the day which succeeded that upon which I had established two facts of great importance, "Where there is no money there is no pay. Over the door the travellers could discern the escutcheon of the Montacutes, and how necessary it was that he should return. and withal a man of high temper, that the old game was afoot once more, But in addition to this he impressed his comrades with the idea that among them all there was not one whose brain was so ready to devise a bloodthirsty scheme, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the world. As the youngster of the party, for on finding himself powerless, but in experience, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. rose-tinted from the setting sun, while Ford, how he knew it, and my last vision as I went was the red gleam of Zambo's fire, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street. Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, through our clouds. There came a plump of rain towards mid-day and the breeze died down,