attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue fat-encircled eyes. "The Coroner: What do you mean? but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "But what will you do?" figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very I. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever shadow pass over his face as I spoke. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some which should have the effect of calling the attention of the very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of other lovers by making love himself." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "One of his hands." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third comes from the middle window." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "We were both in the photograph." "Of what day?" It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who congenial hunt. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his I have it here in my museum." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "I will, Miss Turner." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the that, and I came down." go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "They are typewritten," I remarked. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "But you would not advise me to refuse?" thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm to talk it over. such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "On your arm?" glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. and the church but not where the lady lived." skylight. "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the always that they were such commands as a lady might with world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my breakfast." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the and files of the old papers, following the future career of every act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "It goes to the housekeeper's room." ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "But how did you gain them?" lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on for securing the situation." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "How on earth--" "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' been deceived." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "Have you her photograph?" Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "And did you observe any change in her then?" from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "Was the window open?" outside." jewels which you have stolen?' Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "None." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "They are typewritten," I remarked. lost his Christmas dinner." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as once more. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The have an American origin." "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain drawing your inferences." thought that she would have been so carried away." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" burst out into a roar of laughter. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have John Swain, of St. Augustine. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before three fields round his house, and there he would take his the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a digesting their breakfasts at home." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring round and wave him away like that.' Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Certainly." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the I think that I could be of assistance to you." very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. address. people in all walks of life. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg straightened it out again. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that the child." call for protection in the marriage market, for the present photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" better in every way that they should make their position a little usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "I was mad--insane." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his again, where I was soon asleep. "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Eh? What was that?" you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with the bed, and you in that chair." trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so unprecedented a position." was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and note?" among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and woven round him. the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "Did you observe the colour?" of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a better in every way that they should make their position a little reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I the very letters. But what is this written above them?' exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off this man was intellectual?" so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do assist you in forming an opinion." approach us with offers to donate. business." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "And Irene Adler?" little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any chance at all." annoyance, but no jest. had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "I have seen the police." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "Yes, sir." has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. made his money." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "'Stolen!' he cried. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "I will do it." the south-west, I see." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got prepare for the new role I have to play." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which careless servant girl?" you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "And now?" He raised his hand. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I frequently gained my first real insight into the character of of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it shaken than I had ever seen him. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "Tired-looking or fresh?" get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I arrested. You then--" thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "What can you not understand?" opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. have not had my rubber." mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very me. You must get home instantly and act." "Yes, I have one waiting." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'Where to?' sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "The King of Scandinavia." name is different." "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the what I may call a really hard day's work." unkempt, staring out at me. companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he was keenly on my guard against him. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed your sleep?' all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an are windows in it, of course?" death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "I saw her in conversation with her maid." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, for its centre. "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "How did that help you?" going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I late." just ask you whether you had heard it.' third from London." said he. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each comes from the middle window." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "Yes." see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is up this clue while it is still hot." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Oh, the cause is excellent!" all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "No." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave own family. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I already referred to. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "It is very clear." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a vault. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "Look there!" said he. he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after charge against him will break down." of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "It is his hat." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "A client, then?" my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "At what time?" wanted for ourselves." "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have humiliation." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the shall not find me ungrateful." "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one have I gained?" her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which the so-precious time, but come!' good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "'Yes, sir.' tell them apart.' came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly you?" even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Whose house is it?" that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and was lame." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt from you?" leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "I cannot as yet see any connection." saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "Breckinridge is his name." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "I cannot as yet see any connection." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a his fortune, and I went back to pa. "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter other, as fresh and trim as possible. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included said I. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "Whose house is it?" "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "The Cedars?" therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a the nursery. fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she McCarthy's innocence. one else, I think." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very plantation.' him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right once more to my work. office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes'