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"You have planned it all very neatly, whether they are the right men or not," said Jones; "but if the affair were in my hands I should have had a body of police in Jacobson's Yard, and arrested them when they came down"

"Which would have been never This man Small is a pretty shrewd fellow He would send a scout on ahead, and if anything ht have stuck to Mordecai S-place," said I

"In that case I should have wasted ainst Sood pay, why should he ask questions? They send hiht over every possible course, and this is the best"

While this conversation had been proceeding, we had been shooting the long series of bridges which span the Thailding the cross upon the suht before we reached the Tower

"That is Jacobson's Yard," said Hol on the Surrey side "Cruise gently up and down here under cover of this string of lighters" He took a pair of night-glasses froazed some time at the shore "I see n of a handkerchief"

"Suppose we go down-streaerly We were all eager by this tiue idea of as going forward

"We have no right to take anything for granted," Holo down-stream, but we cannot be certain From this point we can see the entrance of the yard, and they can hardly see us It will be a clear night and plenty of light We must stay where we are See how the folk swar fro rascals, but I suppose every one has some little immortal spark concealed about him You would not think it, to look at thema is man!"

"Soested

"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes "He remarks that, while the individual ate he becomes a mathematical certainty You can, for example, never foretell what any one e nues remain constant So says the statistician But do I see a handkerchief? Surely there is a white flutter over yonder"