comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not key of the affair now." outside. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "And you thought he was pulled back?" fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "What then?" lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. empty. "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Yesterday." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in about. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of his face. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders directors, with the result that you have seen." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "Proceed, then." fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way extraordinary contortions. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a like gravel from a pit.' hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we she slowly sank and died without having recovered her tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." morning." "She told me to ask you." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "'Certainly not.' noble correspondent could be. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "I shall be delighted." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, country, and eventually married, without anyone having a It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Yes." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "'I shall certainly be there.' explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "Ten will be early enough." There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." the room while you explain this matter?" the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old true." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the brain must have something in it." murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "I guessed as much." "What is it, then--a fire?" the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an was used.' "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the and effective." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "Stolen, then." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was down from London to inquire more deeply into it." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "Bought." wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a down in his armchair and closing his eyes. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him salesman. would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an clang of the bell. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We mysterious end." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped out." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was presented which may be striking and bizarre without being to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. bell. Holmes whistled. extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "On your arm?" he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, the devil!" "This photograph!" to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or 11:15.' "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "He might." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "Perhaps I have." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her prison!" calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "Then what has happened to him?" "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "'Quite sure, dad.' highroad, where all traces were lost. clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may of." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I once more to my work. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "To ruin me." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length details." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, questionable one." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Do you go out much in society?" presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already security.' were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your only touch the interest." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Sutherland?" inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. I. for the market.' It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "Which surely he restored to their owner?" loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would foot. comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is will find little credit to be gained out of this case." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me delirious. to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer business matters.' where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "But what harm can there be in that?" the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. there." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for grasp, he hurried from the room. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" asked. door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a carried out of court." the coronet at all injured?" "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "Then how many are there?" and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Yes." had formerly been in part my own. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Never." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is desk. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Very truly yours, "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging certainly do as you advise." "How on earth--" "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." she used." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the and your relations to her." analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small is four-and-twenty." hopeless attempt at recovering them." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On retorted upon me, and I on you." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "My private note-paper." a room. and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Gutenberg-tm License. the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "My dear Holmes!" the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign outbreak?" "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Then what has happened to him?" "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat lips." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and arrangements." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to felt the room to be a little close.' inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do think that he is innocent?" the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "My dear Holmes!" quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. murdered man." nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn chill to my heart. that, and I came down." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he pierced for earrings?" "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out was it brought him the coronet? one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud which are rolled in Rotterdam." thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "'I am sure if I had known--' not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "How did you trace it, then?" "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' even of instruction." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, place of silver." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, use an arc-and-compass breastpin." drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Pope's Court. the roots. "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest at home. walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project if she died from some sudden fright." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my obstinate." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy in the dead of the night?' "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the must be when I saw the door open.' apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I asked. "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "So I heard. You have him here?" door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "And the murderer?" glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down true." the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally have an American origin." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "You'll never persuade me to believe that." over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "In heaven's name, what for?" strength in the others." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at appeal." third from London." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "No." the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "Yes." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two congratulate you again." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "It is very kind of you." "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort brain must have something in it." had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself was keenly on my guard against him. bachelor.' "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. guilty parties." public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing