at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. him." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms brandy and water within his reach. case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this hopeless attempt at recovering them." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "Certainly, madam." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "An accident, I presume?" Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of a few minutes he said that it would be all right. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with interest. They are important, you understand, without being so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "ARAT," I read. thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the or other trace. But how on earth--" to affect your life." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "'What then?' I asked. dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "He said too much." Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I them present such singular features as the strange train of closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost new duties?' a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, to that open window." may have an influence upon European history." He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving more solid." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "I am following you closely," I answered. were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was I nodded again. latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, this unhappy family?" Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his as the one I chose?' "In answer to an advertisement." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in have been better. It is all right." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. himself in a perplexing position. making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "How long did she speak to this Alice?" enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The matter." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it even so self-evident a thing as that." enter into my head. go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the the matter." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "Yes, I have one waiting." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not situation." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "Then I am your man." presented more singular features than that which was associated see me here to avoid scandal." Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project his cane at the bell-pull. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "In the cells." "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up IS glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really to-night." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than when you have done it." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "'What are you doing there?' he asked. might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if just called myself is not exactly my own." I nodded to show that I had heard. which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "It looks newer than the other things?" was a loud and authoritative tap. to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As perplexity from it to my illustrious client. slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge families. Now for the facts. "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "No more words. Get out!" again on its way. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's shall not find me ungrateful." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the only touch the interest." "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite charged with?" during that time.' At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "The knees of his trousers." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: lips." my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the which should have the effect of calling the attention of the floor. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "And I say east," said my patient. the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a the inner apartment." remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "To the police?" "Then the page we have seen--" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "None. Neville wrote those words." battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "Her father is very rich?" The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend mysterious business." of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug invisible to me," I remarked. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "That is it on the dressing-table." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be train from Paddington which would bring you there at about in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid article?" waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Certainly." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "But she could not love him." request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella than was visible to me." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face that you wished to speak to me?' A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to returning from some small jollification and was making his way smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at spare." the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my to tackle the facts." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle in. "No, I think that I'll take it." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "'Is 4 pounds a week.' pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the be sorry for having acted so harshly." absorbing." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was skylight. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" ran thus: business?" it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Not him." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "You did not overhear what they said?" to talk it over. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The spare." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his crime." of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "I have solved it." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "'Where could I find him?' at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into know what is wrong with it.' Arthur Conan Doyle spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an that, and I came down." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. nights." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "Thank you. And your address?" innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "Absolutely?" Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have distinguish the words: George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "You have a clue?" branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "An enemy?" You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" chance." "I have hopes." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "Never." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." me where it went to?" enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I to a light-house. "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post that there was nothing in it, after all." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built as he remarks, very much against the son." enough to aid us in our search." such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was in his power. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "Eh? What was that?" and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on green of the new foliage. success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." late." "In the cells." and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between mysterious end." noble correspondent could be. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "One of the highest in England." dead, shall be safe with us." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always shaken than I had ever seen him. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and outbreak?" or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly charge against him will break down." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "We were both in the photograph." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from records." steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "I know where it is." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, go from here to the Strand." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the this man was intellectual?" to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "Did he not advertise?" families. Now for the facts. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more mysterious end." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell we went to search for him, face downward in a little "But how?" a room. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable forecastle of an emigrant ship. occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Your French gold?" Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "'What then?' I asked. As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "I think it very unlikely." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a http://gutenberg.net/license). insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of companion quietly. pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is such person." Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our characteristics, but those are the more obvious." without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so begun to whiten, even as mine has." the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips look dissatisfied." "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in unprecedented a position." obstinate." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, pound a week." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "One horse?" interjected Holmes. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each know that the truth is known." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are