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"Toby could eat these scraps, I dare say Are you going to bed, Holmes?"

"No: I am not tired I have a curious constitution I never reh idleness exhauststo smoke and to think over this queer business to which my fair client has introduced us If ever ed men are not so common, but the other man must, I should think, be absolutely unique"

"That other ain!"

"I have no wish to make a mystery of him,--to you, anyway But you must have formed your own opinion Now, do consider the data Diminutive footmarks, toes never fettered by boots, naked feet, stone-headed wooden ility, se!" I exclaimed "Perhaps one of those Indians ere the associates of Jonathan Sns of strange weapons I was inclined to think so; but the remarkable character of the footmarks caused me to reconsider my views Some of the inhabitants of the Indian Peninsula are small men, but none could have left suchand thin feet The sandal-wearing Mohareat toe well separated fro is commonly passed between These little darts, too, could only be shot in one way They are froe?"

"South American," I hazarded

He stretched his hand up, and took down a bulky voluazetteer which is now being published It may be looked upon as the very latest authority What have we here? 'Andaman Islands, situated 340 al' Hum! hum! What's all this? Moist climate, coral reefs, sharks, Port Blair, convict-barracks, Rutland Island, cottonwoods--Ah, here we are 'The aborigines of the Anda the sists prefer the Busher Indians of Aht is rather below four feet, although rown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this They are a fierce,ained' Mark that, Watson Now, then, listen to this 'They are naturally hideous, having large, misshapen heads, small, fierce eyes, and distorted features Their feet and hands, however, are remarkably small So intractable and fierce are they that all the efforts of the British official have failed to win theree They have always been a terror to shipwrecked crews, braining the survivors with their stone-headed clubs, or shooting them with their poisoned arrows These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast' Nice, amiable people, Watson! If this fellow had been left to his own unaided devices this affair hastly turn I fancy that, even as it is, Jonathan Sood deal not to have employed him"