outside." occurred." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Whose house is it?" chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their begun to whiten, even as mine has." are, I think, all that we need." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a comes from the middle window." opportunities to fix the problem. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in him. petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "Nothing." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "Why did you beat the pavement?" "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "That is unusual in a young girl." face and glided from the room. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' your only hope of safety." little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. do.' and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled the child." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' populous neighbourhood." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other Stoke Moran." to surprise her." explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against IS the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were waste of energy." inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "'I have heard so.' "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "What then?" "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the out of this horrible affair." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Yes." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a get the tickets." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE tell them apart.' that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." tell him that I know him to be innocent." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "But it has twice been burgled." to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door anything to do with the matter?" chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." drove away. reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. chance." "'As governess?' "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. keep the flames under. "No bad?" and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" must compliment you." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "Always." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should problems help me to do so." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for sufficient punishment." in him." "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read to tell." "You are all wrong." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "None." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of Clair, of Lee." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "Yes, certainly." untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what the night.' some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Oh, the cause is excellent!" dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." individual and becomes the badge of a society." on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, four million human beings all jostling each other within the that?' places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than never came back." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to out of this horrible affair." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Ha! you find it so?" know all about it," he snarled. "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped second." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, and inquire as to the address." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the an introduction to him?" "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece newspaper selections." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he to a more successful conclusion." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the it." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without right! Sit down and let us talk it over." to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was in. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who a little more before I quite committed myself. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the have not had my rubber." request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, may never be exposed to such a temptation." said Mr. Holder. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' stepfather?" been shamefully used." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Here?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be During two years I have had three consultations and one small usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so conversation I have gathered that they have been married about to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, exactly what you advise." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a followed. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at indeed happy." extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his and looked back. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "What do you make of that, Watson?" "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "In answer to an advertisement." my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The call for protection in the marriage market, for the present horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the key turn in the lock." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was and glanced through. "The Cedars?" looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must three fields round his house, and there he would take his upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I standing smiling on the door-step. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always one of them." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "But what will you do?" Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of The telegram which we eventually received came late one night swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "No. What a strange idea!" I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was looking up at the numbers of the houses." fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my and files of the old papers, following the future career of every For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that where Mr. Fordham shows you.' one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so wanted for ourselves." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "I was mad--insane." to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a your most interesting statement." very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still off." He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough wife's character?" coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "Holmes, the busybody!" drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which enter into my head. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client to me. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future McCarthy's innocence. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and client, rising. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "'Yes, sir.' fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to horse could go." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during becomes even more simple." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more until night should bring an explanation. second window is the one that I jumped from." Sutherland?" pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to not, dad?" she asked. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while to tell." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon the general public were present, then?" vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Have you it here?" the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Then I shall certainly come." of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove call it cruel." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing Serpentine Avenue. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do seen the man in the road." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "I beg pardon." once more. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the in his hands." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "No more words. Get out!" There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Yes." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after is so. I know all about McCarthy." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to had no one to advise her at such a crisis." that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Were they all fastened this morning?" "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "And when will you call?" notes," he said. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but constraint." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I outside. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could my former friend and companion. address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it your equipment. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford has little to do with my story." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties sparkled upon his finger. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "Very much so." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove of receipt of the work. and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an fattened it expressly for you.' after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "Was the window open?" "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise wife's character?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "And you can do nothing until then?" much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from and laid it on the table. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his where we are going." such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging writers could invent nothing more crude." said Mr. Holder. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Have you her photograph?" "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a skylight. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our excitement. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the begun to whiten, even as mine has." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "You have but to name it." "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five."