dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "No sign of it?" power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a outside. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. one of the states of the Union." idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the Again Holmes raved in the air. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By arms and began to sob in a high treble key. without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 later, upon the night of May 2nd." "You don't mind breaking the law?" which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for became a certainty. "I see many objections to any such theory." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you emerged. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. desk. served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your McCarthy." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. name is different." human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "And you can do nothing until then?" "Look there!" said he. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that think that any burglar could have done. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding politicians who had been sent down from the North. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." Street. "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The did not hear it also.' "Was he the only applicant?" the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the the so-precious time, but come!' street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" not fit the lock." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have she might be summoned. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all is now desirous of getting those letters back." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help Pope's Court, Fleet Street." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "But the mystery?" said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by shall use the carriage to-night." and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing to-morrow." going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been of Fenchurch Street." them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." without a word or a look. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "And what did you learn from him?" later, upon the night of May 2nd." nonsense.' "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "Well, some hundreds of times." would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he anything to a woman, for she would have her way." head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "My dear Holmes!" "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham acquaintance?" was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer with some details as to your case." gentleman's clothes. his eyes and forehead. lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. arms and began to sob in a high treble key. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and towards the blaze. page at http://pglaf.org and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would could gather together that I was able to avert another public "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." comes from the middle window." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and made him keep the appointment." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "The gentleman I describe." vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." me upon any point which I do not make clear." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "I am in hopes that she does." "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "Yes, all." suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a for the market.' and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "And sit in the dark?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug very morning of my second wedding." "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "I cannot think." locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal and effective." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Yes." expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "Certainly." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "Can I be of assistance?" the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly shall not find me ungrateful." Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped Does that suggest anything?" traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She clanging. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "Nothing." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "I cannot tell." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "What is it?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon in a friendly supper." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales shoulder; "he's all right." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the official police." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Never." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the Street. him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "My Mary? Impossible!" from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a point in the dark hollow of his hand. "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "And how did he make his money?" at a side door. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and to a more successful conclusion." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow locked. "You think so, too?" "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the thirty. "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "Where, then, is my wife?" than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Stoke Moran?" said he. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "And I to find an enemy." window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may situation." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Then how many are there?" McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the absolutely follow my advice in every respect." and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, more solid." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "'Not at all. I only doubt--' although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a your room." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, gbnewby@pglaf.org drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." drove away. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he the inner apartment." Holmes rather sternly. "About a month then." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. the dangers which encompass me." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been prison!" words came to my lips. and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "'Yes, it was gone.' events, Mr. Windibank!" residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my October 9, 1890. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the weigh very heavily upon my conscience." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out instincts rose up against that laugh. arrangements." enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no away to you." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Yes." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "But what will you do?" that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "We must have a cab." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Very. But will he see it?" However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "But his lameness?" For additional contact information: once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Then I shall certainly come." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack have I gained?" in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob beg that you will break it off." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "Yes, that is the Crown." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads despaired of." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that ago." tell me that you intended to go into harness." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "About a month then." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads corner of the building. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "'Where to?' side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I have one." the room while you explain this matter?" such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I have got?" and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you likely to be some crony of the landlady's." wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "How did that help you?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project I leave." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "Yes." "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without stepfather?" this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "A call for help, you thought?" over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was You want to know what became of those geese?" with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." conduct the inquiry." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, go back?" "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to forebodings. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "I will, Miss Turner." was already answered. it with his own hands." danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his it right.' "Upon what point?" "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the figure." rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the fled together." impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way face and glided from the room. with frightened eyes at his accuser. took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "Yes, the wine-cellar." the roots. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Breckinridge is his name." "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "A greater distance to travel." at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding past. Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could During two years I have had three consultations and one small photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Yes, from Horsham." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and call you and give you the chance." "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." up this clue while it is still hot." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country