a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight October 9, 1890. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a throat." unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful article?" wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular notes," he said. was feeling which was the fattest.' the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they Heh?' "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "'What do you call purely nominal?' hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "And why?" already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other carriage. It was a chestnut." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, brought there to personate someone, and the real person is we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "I am about to be married." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the article?" complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "What! a murderous attack?" "I never have." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has you." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake not fit the lock." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, sofa. This way, please!" pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the tassel actually lying upon the pillow. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "Deserted you?" photograph a cabinet?" form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to what is your own theory as to what took place?" stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and my room." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Yes, it would be as well." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem one of them." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were information in his hands the value of which he did not himself have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question know that the truth is known." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands closing the door. "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had is now desirous of getting those letters back." my room." within hail.' generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before redistribution. first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Texas, I think." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears imbecility!" he cried. occurred." empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Oh, yes, easily." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "Where did you address your letters, then?" "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on village inn over there?" "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "Did your wife hear all this?" money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "In what way?" asked Holmes. Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "You have the photograph?" "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all residence of the great financier. place no limit on the sum I may draw." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Certainly." resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the humiliation." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the happened." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and examine." the child." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker begin with, and I had not got mine yet." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened next day. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it I shall communicate with you." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "And the cigar-holder?" I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. in. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a felt the room to be a little close.' "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" http://www.gutenberg.net cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by train.' his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at point in the dark hollow of his hand. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this himself to tell his story. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "He might." When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes minor matters until to-morrow." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Yes." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible secret." shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "My photograph." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "About a month then." "Yes, the wine-cellar." ran thus: McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a charge against him will break down." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been father's young wife. preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the way: "None." "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of in your London, you will know that the office of the company is in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought them present such singular features as the strange train of with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up appeal." assist you in forming an opinion." pierced for earrings?" happened." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "But you can know nothing of this?" lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "But you have hopes?" "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one cigars in the box." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked people don't know." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for conceal it?" lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for row." "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into his eyes and forehead. Does that suggest anything?" "Then I am your man." "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and his eyes and forehead. country, and eventually married, without anyone having a side. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his papers." "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in Does that suggest anything?" what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in maiden herself was most instructive." "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "Come in!" said he. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Precisely so. But how--" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "Was the window open?" there is a decided draught." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "You have the photograph?" him to be an active member of the medical profession." to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "And the murderer?" aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary becomes even more simple." could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "Where, then, is my wife?" behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in standing smiling on the door-step. journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few and no precautions can guard against." "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold passage and a tap at the door. unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive drove away. a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "And now?" He raised his hand. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "But you have hopes?" tell me that you intended to go into harness." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing everything which you would wish to know." while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew means taking possession of that which another person has a prior Holmes' room. "About a month then." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Not I." "9th. McCauley cleared. every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked from you?" hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Very. But will he see it?" "No, thank goodness, she did not." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from since then to throw any light upon what became of him." wanted for ourselves." "So I am. Very much so." "No, my brougham is waiting." was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the the devil!" "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" be there in time for your coming." strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the views." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "'There is a drive, then?' broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "I cannot tell." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my vague figure huddled up in the darkness. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the mysterious end." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that my former friend and companion. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, the driver. this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any *** START: FULL LICENSE *** about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell 'I should be able to look after that for you.' places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair mystery." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "At the wedding breakfast." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole you found me to-night--and running through the front room she with the outside air!" reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. desk. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a gives a meaning to it." without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "One of his hands." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a interests were the same as his." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "How did you deduce the select?" Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One hour." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "And on what day did he meet his death?" "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough way in." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. cause to be." had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and giving me time to thank him. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the children over to America with him, so that I found myself without his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining recover the gem." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted daring than any effort of the imagination." feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that to some other building. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes himself. do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, envelope. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but my room." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "It missed him, then?" together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, I have it here in my museum." papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at