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On reaching the boundary wall Toby ran along, whining eagerly, underneath its shadow, and stopped finally in a corner screened by a young beech.

Where the two walls joined, several bricks had been loosened, and the crevices left were worn down and rounded upon the lower side, as though they had frequently been used as a ladder.

Holmes clambered up, and taking the dog from me he dropped it over upon the other side.

"There's the print of Wooden-leg's hand," he remarked as I mounted up beside him.

"You see the slight smudge of blood upon the white plaster.

What a lucky thing it is that we have had no very heavy rain since yesterday! The scent will lie upon the road in spite of their eight-and-twenty hours' start."

I confess that I had my doubts myself when I reflected upon the great traffic which had passed along the London road in the interval.

My fears were soon appeased, however.

Toby never hesitated or swerved but waddled on in his peculiar rolling fashion.

Clearly the pungent smell of the creosote rose high above all other contending scents.

"Do not imagine," said Holmes, "that I depend for my success in this case upon the mere chance of one of these fellows having put his foot in the chemical.

I have knowledge now which would enable me to trace them in many different ways.

This, however, is the readiest, and, since fortune has put it into our hands, I should be culpable if I neglected it.

It has, however prevented the case from becoming the pretty little intellectual problem which it at one time promised to be.

There might have been some credit to be gained out of it but for this too palpable clue."

"There is credit, and to spare," said I.

"I assure you, Holmes, that I marvel at the means by which you obtain your results in this case even more than I did in the Jefferson Hope murder.

The thing seems to me to be deeper and more inexplicable.

How, for example, could you describe with such confidence the wooden-legged man?"

"Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.

I don't wish to be theatrical.

It is all patent and above-board.

Two officers who are in command of a convict-guard learn an important secret as to buried treasure.

A map is drawn for them by an Englishman named Jonathan Small.

You remember that we saw the name upon the chart in Captain Morstan's possession.

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