answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that jewels which you have stolen?' day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Seven!" I answered. me where it went to?" consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you colour had been driven from his face. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "And your mother is alive?" valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, you in your example." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and page at http://pglaf.org once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "Now, then, what's the last entry?" Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who new acquaintance to Baker Street. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the washing it down with a long draught of water. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Does that suggest anything?" to-night's adventure." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Well, it is a possible supposition." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. passage and a tap at the door. "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party know that the truth is known." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All one's self under obligations.' that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little see a sister of mine apply for." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Witness: Nothing definite. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly was already answered. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "By all means." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "Witness: I must still refuse. rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a over here." directors, with the result that you have seen." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to in his hands." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "What have you to say now?" the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See Doctor, of the paper and the date." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I cannot tell." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon it were putty." and it need not interfere very much with one's other makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated one's self under obligations.' the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "You think so, too?" scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our some mystery and the punishment of some crime." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong is so. I know all about McCarthy." late!' passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' village inn over there?" the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute ordinary clothes on?" town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "I should be immensely obliged to you." like gravel from a pit.' gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know reach." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "Then how many are there?" "'Certainly not. But why?' "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His thin legs towards the fire. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side Sutherland. "So I am. Very much so." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him crime." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some she slowly sank and died without having recovered her see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I present strange and interesting features that it is no easy stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "Do you go out much in society?" interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that I. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "On Monday." "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "'Quite sure, dad.' sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes sentimental considerations in the background which would induce caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to know all about it," he snarled. at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to grasp, he hurried from the room. Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my morning." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed that he will be back before evening." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' in this way: case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "You saw the ventilator, too?" "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest this Miss Turner." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the nonsense.' faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a works. See paragraph 1.E below. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been late." "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my could not account in any way for the presence of the missing of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his companion quietly. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the off." stammered. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose furiously. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and that he has suffered." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and *** START: FULL LICENSE *** A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Certainly." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an colonel looking down at me. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever clanging. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up particular state visit http://pglaf.org "Perhaps we may make them less so." he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "How did you deduce the select?" Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of upon the sideboard." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." read it out to me." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "I should wish to." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to hopeless attempt at recovering them." Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in matter." case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "I don't believe it." eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet the coroner come to?" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to absorbing." grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "How can you tell that?" caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "Nothing." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, fait accompli?" among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off man. I know him from the photograph." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are together. grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the strength." The King stared at him in amazement. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "From his hat?" "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would very peculiar words of the dying woman?" this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." in a friendly supper." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after Pope's Court. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. the stones. the inquest, and which are worth considering." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "That also I could fathom." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue have accepted such a situation. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the kind enough to tell me what I should do." forehead. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before hurried away. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "Certainly." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if himself. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." thought that she would have been so carried away." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this sneer upon his pale face. of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "'Yes.' "No, finished." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "About a month then." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project to affect your life." man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready on re-entering her father's house?" as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "You will not go there first?" "'Entirely.' "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "Did he not advertise?" and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "A confidential servant?" sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close at home. the south-west, I see." detained." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "But how?" "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "From his hat?" however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "Then he might have called to you?" "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing companion imperturbably. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and The events in question occurred in the early days of my American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "I saw her in conversation with her maid." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "I never have." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it bears upon the case?" out of this horrible affair." crime." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "But how will you look?" was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "Always." "It is solved." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away ways including including checks, online payments and credit card machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then from you?" from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself were new raised from a basin. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "'How far from the body?' "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant only touch the interest." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "'How far from the body?' served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Holmes. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "What do you make of that, Watson?" "But his left-handedness." the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of gone. Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "How do you know, then?" practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what any." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "She will not sell." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink