fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have think that any burglar could have done. companion quietly. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he prison!" presented more singular features than that which was associated dates and names. correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you to a more successful conclusion." "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for people in all walks of life. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "When did it break out?" familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not you in yours." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat go back?" hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' and files of the old papers, following the future career of every robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, friends, not even his own brother. fashion which was peculiar to him. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the name is different." of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came views." pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "Ample." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." in this note: "You are certainly joking, Holmes." her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have populous neighbourhood." something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "He said that you could solve anything." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Munro.' the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in Chief Executive and Director was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "What then?" value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the and laid it on the table. its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that get her out of the way." "Have you it here?" turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." then?" my friend's incisive reasoning. blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than this as likely?" whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that pressing in one house as in another. have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to them, and came down just as you departed. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" seen the man in the road." chemical work which was so dear to him. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Quite so. She has her freedom." fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, photograph?" Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "Yes." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "A confidential servant?" Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "What have you to say now?" there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to get the tickets." that threaten you." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." goes." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "Then what has happened to him?" by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "And the murderer?" King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. occupations.' continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a key of the affair now." I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "Was she in good spirits?" instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "She told me to ask you." until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." away into the river." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Game for a morning drive?" quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "And why in hopes?" problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "You were travelling in the States?" "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she beg that you will break it off." his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "I am to be neutral?" which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "Look there!" said he. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, constraint." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and business came to an end." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very I shall continue with my miserable story. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about my room." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily and looked back. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. meant." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the danger is over." withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Holmes, the busybody!" "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the persecution?" round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had to tackle the facts." that, and I came down." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and believe that I should never have any practice at all. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of charged with?" done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an the dangers which encompass me." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of writer." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Yes, sir." greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who question," said Holmes, smiling. brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose seem to you to be relevant or not." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of you for a few hours?" "You horrify me." continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "How did you deduce the select?" a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" said he. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not footfalls from the street. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "The knees of his trousers." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "But what is it you wish?" "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped o'clock is it?" him to be an active member of the medical profession." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," conclusions. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the affection." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to him to be an active member of the medical profession." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "And your mother is alive?" out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the woman." grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "Come in!" said Holmes. one which it was hard to resist. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and bled considerably." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a the general public were present, then?" "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from too. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "No, my brougham is waiting." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the and it need not interfere very much with one's other "Look there!" said he. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" other means.' living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that me where it went to?" opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be coroner's jury." upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he the coroner come to?" description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box this unhappy family?" wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed events than those which have happened in my own family." recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Who by?" "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Nearly eleven." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg chance." and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the the King without delay." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the works. are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "'As governess?' "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a from the brougham. "I should be immensely obliged to you." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is guilty one." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor acquaintance?" Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the your sleep?' harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she name is different." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. Dr. Gregory B. Newby Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Quite so." the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been I. alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon even so self-evident a thing as that." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "Not yet." "She will not sell." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "I was mad--insane." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, conduct the inquiry." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "A confidential servant?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking ways including including checks, online payments and credit card cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock galvanised. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "I beg pardon." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Do you go out much in society?" upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. enter Dr. Roylott's room." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must