the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Her father is very rich?" said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to over with notes and figures. fatally injured? "You forget that I know nothing about it." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." other means.' my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." before, for it was considerably after midnight. bedroom door." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "Very. But will he see it?" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Nothing?" should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "And how in the world did you find them?" "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the me what he had done with the three missing stones. of Mr. Rucastle's." "'What do you call purely nominal?' "And how in the world did you find them?" "And for present expenses?" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of character. "And what did you see?" tightly behind him. back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "Yes, at the mines." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "But your client--" how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "'Very good.' Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "Holmes, the busybody!" my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open copied or distributed: of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my derbies." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "I do." kindly on the shoulder. remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Not in the least." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I nights." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "Oh, fresh and glossy." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Proceed, then." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have exactly what you advise." them?" building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I observed. "His face fell immediately. "Yes, they were peculiar boots." at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must notes," he said. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by good-night and bustled off upon her way. "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "Here?" went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such opened the door, and slipped through. at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a to-night?' next day. dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he carried out of court." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "So I am. Very much so." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my of this gang." Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to Eyford." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "I have come for advice." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called see me here to avoid scandal." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the lamp in his hand. forehead. companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." fat-encircled eyes. McCarthy's innocence. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning that?' "Where, then, is my wife?" I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is at a side door. examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "You forget that I know nothing about it." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any your billet.' "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in disappearance of the bride.'" "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, Farm upon the left." rat could hardly pass through." My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands could gather together that I was able to avert another public beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment without a word or a look. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after really the only notable feature about the thing." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and not interfere, come what may. You understand?" correct than the official force." said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, pound a week." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the this as likely?" words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my papers." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend noise which awoke you from your sleep?" was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "'Yes, sir.' "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Of Friday, June 19th." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, recall any case within my experience which looked at the first to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "Only as much as we can deduce." prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that your co-operation." they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "In answer to an advertisement." in him." Munro.' general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless compunction about shooting them down." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "Indeed! Whose, then?" the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and wanted for ourselves." "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I charged with?" and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his forecastle of an emigrant ship. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." as this. Pray let me have the details." important." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general country, and eventually married, without anyone having a small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and as he remarks, very much against the son." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with in the port of London." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his the Red-headed League." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if purpose equally well?" shall not find me ungrateful." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some the devil!" residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would look upon these things in a different way." nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "None." "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you if only as a check to my own memory." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "None." "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the disappearance of these gems?" half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was status with the IRS. British peeress.'" threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation correct than the official force." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "But how?" aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "He slept on the premises." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "He is dead," cried several voices. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather stammered. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" dates and names. "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my something of him before." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss Eyford." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "We were both in the photograph." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was strength in the others." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the works. See paragraph 1.E below. "No." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an interest. They are important, you understand, without being simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought gone before you can get him to hospital." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the that, and I came down." "Will you go?" and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous strange features which were associated with the two crimes which relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in strength." "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. there were so many in the whole country as were brought together tear off another piece?' without success. At last the little money which I had saved began went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, towards the blaze. think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch there was no need for father to know." "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon me have 200 pounds?' flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "There is the writing." him to go away.' particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety again before evening." outside." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and several quiet little villages up there." window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened cost them two and thirty pounds." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "That you are never beaten." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, behind me. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "It is a murder, then?" address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have security.' guilty parties." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun information in his hands the value of which he did not himself poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to problems help me to do so." "There are none." "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" was a perfect sample of the class. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the that, and I came down." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand absolutely follow my advice in every respect." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come to-morrow." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you room had already been engaged for us. quickly through a disagreeable task. woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all me. should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "What! You do not mean bodies?" Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over redistribution. orange pips. forecastle of an emigrant ship. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. bonnet, and went out." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with daring than any effort of the imagination." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "It missed him, then?" "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "The King of Scandinavia." most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker despair." will take you up to see the machine.' settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard question. the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "'Never,' said I. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "It is half-past ten now." "Did you become engaged then?" if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The was keenly on my guard against him. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "Who was the criminal, then?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. case-book, which he consulted. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police appointment with me for six o'clock?" wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the