skylight. one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but to have been novel and of interest." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone interests were the same as his." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if drawing your inferences." golden eyeglasses. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Two days later this same performance was gone through under it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away them?" "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "'In my own bureau.' had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had From what you have told me I think that it is possible that as he remarks, very much against the son." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be you." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and other means.' unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a o'clock is it?" some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend appointment with me for six o'clock?" pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Never." mystery!" to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been situation." having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided if I call to-morrow?" a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "Stoke Moran?" said he. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' you do it in twenty minutes!' Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door strong and stiff." have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Certainly." on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." must be when I saw the door open.' what these perils are?" "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her an introduction to him?" entirely lost his self-respect." cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry little trying to do so much typewriting?" safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "We must have a cab." "Certainly, madam." enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he Where does the thing come from?' "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife undoubtedly my uncle's." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under the armchair which I pushed forward for him. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. Munro.' Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring it." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, think, you have already met." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "It surprised me." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "In which, sir?" "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at hair?' and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It had this final quarrel? sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the was a perfect sample of the class. "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was at my own good fortune. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And His name is Francis Prosper." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "But he might be a bachelor." child?' Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the invisible to me," I remarked. morning." come either from the window or the door. My attention was must be when I saw the door open.' I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "But she will refuse." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "Yes." long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his not, dad?" she asked. such person." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly to go into your room and bar your shutters?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the room. nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "And sit in the dark?" rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "I was sure that I might rely on you." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a way in." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall light and attacked it." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "But what will you do?" column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "Seven!" I answered. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the lumber-room." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" is a common subject for conversation. "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." in him." Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in and prosperity to your house. Good-night." you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin any little problem which you may submit to me." Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger of Fenchurch Street." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at mystery!" absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress had died away into the silence from which it rose. about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, to talk it over. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is interested in these little problems, and since you are good bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "None." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with was lame." records." 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique problems help me to do so." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own I held the little printed slip to the light. "And leave your case unfinished?" ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which amused." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple you understand?" "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "No." But Holmes shook his head gravely. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a carried out of court." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in woven round him. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. upon the shelf for the interim." certainly not very gracious." "Certainly." said he. client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "Well, it is a possible supposition." sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "'I shall certainly be there.' really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a you found me to-night--and running through the front room she get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Not him." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "I was mad--insane." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there Clair, of Lee." there in twenty minutes." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner so.' asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Stolen, then." "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope was once confined in the cab my mission was practically father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "'And what salary do you ask?' any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting garden below. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, during the last few years, and there are many noble families to lost nothing by them." pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "Who was the criminal, then?" "And who is her maid?" "But we can't all be." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way and inquire as to the address." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the from you?" the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I Henry Baker is a member." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master to surprise her." days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "No, finished." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Certainly." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "Yes?" ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so acted in my house last night?" some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "I fear not." waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Well, some hundreds of times." new duties?' "You'll never persuade me to believe that." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came people in all walks of life. but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "No. What a strange idea!" point our research must commence, and we will begin it by whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" which I could not give. He asked for Alice. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. have established a very serious case against the son of the have got?" and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. floor. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "It is possible." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose characteristics, but those are the more obvious." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "But she will refuse." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "But I am all in the dark." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of directors have had misgivings upon the subject." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I morning." and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, States. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." look dissatisfied." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the laugh and put his lips to my ear. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been redistribution. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "'Where to?' The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Well." knowledge of the world." "'Yes, sir.' who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found carried out of court." agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "The Coroner: What do you mean? Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "But you were on a friendly footing?" undoubtedly my uncle's." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "You did not overhear what they said?" in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was Surrey." police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "What shall I do?" "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every room. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if 1.E.9. problems help me to do so." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will way in." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all one of them." the matter?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "ARAT," I read. dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Witness: It was. entirely devoid of interest." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "Certainly, madam." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "That is not always so easy." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he