The Sign of the Four Part 8 (2/2)

”Good-night, gentlemen both,” said Jonathan Small

”You first, Small,” remarked the wary Jones as they left the room ”I'll take particular care that you don't club entleman at the Andaman Isles”

”Well, and there is the end of our little dra in silence ”I fear that it ation in which I shall have the chance of studying your methods Miss Morstan has done me the honor to accept roan ”I feared as ratulate you”

I was a little hurt ”Have you any reason to be dissatisfied with my choice?” I asked

”Not at all I think she is one of the ht have beenShe had a decided genius that itness the way in which she preserved that Agra plan from all the other papers of her father But love is an e, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things I should never ment may survive the ordeal But you look weary”

”Yes, the reaction is already upon e,” said I, ”how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigor”

”Yes,” he answered, ”there are in s of a very fine loafer and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow I often think of those lines of old Goethe,-- Schade dass die Natur nur EINEN Mensch aus Dir schuf, Denn zuen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff

”By the way, a propos of this Norwood business, you see that they had, as I surmised, a confederate in the house, who could be none other than Lal Rao, the butler: so Jones actually has the undivided honor of having caught one fish in his great haul”

”The division seems rather unfair,” I reet a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?”

”For me,” said Sherlock Holmes, ”there still re white hand up for it