I was a strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.

Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty on account of him that owns them who won't have the drains seed to, though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o' typhoid fever.

I was knocked all in a heap therefore at seeing a light in the window, and I suspected as something was wrong.

When I got to the door----" "You stopped, and then walked back to the garden gate," my companion interrupted.

"What did you do that for ?" Rance gave a violent jump, and stared at Sherlock Holmes with the utmost amazement upon his features.
"Why, that's true, sir," he said; "though how you come to know it, Heaven only knows.