"Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." a good hundred miles off by now." the stable lane now." "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "'I have heard so.' opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, since then to throw any light upon what became of him." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "No." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "Of what?" "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. to a more successful conclusion." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" is four-and-twenty." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "And on what day did he meet his death?" remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will ashen face. carriage. It was a chestnut." have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "Where, indeed?" all-comprehensive glances. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "Pray let us have it, for all that." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than this poor creature." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your interested in these little problems, and since you are good January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my of your young ladies.' you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand must be when I saw the door open.' it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "To the police?" gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door the so-precious time, but come!' Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "'What then?' I asked. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for children over to America with him, so that I found myself without hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had she to prove their authenticity?" "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "What, then, did Peterson do?" King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the back into the street. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "No." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "What shall I do?" corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I be.' from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "A greater distance to travel." ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Yes, that is the Crown." late." rose-bushes. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open that?' "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an beg that you will break it off." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite ready to-morrow?' married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we likely to be some crony of the landlady's." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and man. reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first brandy and water within his reach. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and certainly do as you advise." The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said nothing of it?" keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned Holmes' face clouded over. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed dramatic, in fact." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a shoulder. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. to-night's adventure." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to child?' awkward doing business with an alias." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned joking. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "'It is locked up,' I answered. 1.F. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the province." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. infinite languor in his face. villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his horse could go." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a questioning and rather startled gaze. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "It is possible." wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a at my own good fortune. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it your own bird, so if you wish--" Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working You want to know what became of those geese?" hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and thirty. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was cigar and let me expound." events than those which have happened in my own family." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "An accident, I presume?" that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a Doctor, of the paper and the date." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever leaning back in his chair. past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's had a long day." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which people in all walks of life. he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any throat." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that himself in a perplexing position. John Swain, of St. Augustine. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter persecution?" He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "No. What a strange idea!" "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that States. were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the even of instruction." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before business." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, village inn over there?" practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the new duties?' of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the hour?' his knees, staring into the fire. size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "What!" he roared. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "It was." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that read over the extraordinary announcement. "'Certainly,' I answered. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a instincts rose up against that laugh. others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic there has been an enclosure here!" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I pressing in one house as in another. hands. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the examination of the premises, but without finding anything which himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I hopeless attempt at recovering them." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" nonsense.' own family. "Yes." fish-monger and a tide-waiter." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. himself to tell his story. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your once more to my work. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "I promise," said Holmes. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "He said too much." are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it over his head with a sweet womanly caress. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "And why?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "That sounds a little paradoxical." doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "Where, indeed?" doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society advice." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Holmes' thin, eager face. shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to one of the states of the Union." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." article?" the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, any." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the away into the river." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Yes, that is the Crown." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her past. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must any little problem which you may submit to me." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small page at http://pglaf.org mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little have got?" before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "Not social, then?" For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "And your mother is alive?" head. So long, then!" cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "How about poison?" "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple been with you?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" was a loud and authoritative tap. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson seven miles from Eyford Station.' sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny 'please.'" was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with I nodded again. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "What then?" "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to and the whole place is in a blaze." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's the child." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it stammered. sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took never will be, entirely cleared up. head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her to where he stood hid behind the curtain. his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "'Certainly,' I answered. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales during which he might have communicated with his friend the deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 seem to you to be relevant or not." "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "What can you not understand?" product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End spare." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. said I. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence that you wished to speak to me?' against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, voice, changing her seat as requested. where she found matters as described by the last witness. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "Only as much as we can deduce." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he details should find their way into the papers. Inspector walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause