"Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a disappearance of these gems?" you in your example." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of trifles." "And I." the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the his forehead." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "And what did you learn from him?" successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them I think that I could be of assistance to you." written, and locked the door of the office after me. before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and cigar and let me expound." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. secret." ashen face. consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I child?' Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "You have a clue?" "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "'I shall certainly be there.' make me his representative both with the servants and with the "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "But your client--" been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. approach us with offers to donate. vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I pity, because in other respects you would really have done very The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the manager. and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the lamp. question. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. strode off upon his way. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the in this way: surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. wedding?" consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was the house with me." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed Pope's Court. the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep wedding?" occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "You heard nothing yourself last night?" on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met said I. tail." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the business in the City. She little knew what. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "Just look it up, then." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "It is possible." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always was not a bird to be seen there. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "My opinion is in no way altered." shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door chambers. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "Seven!" I answered. could gather together that I was able to avert another public Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying of receipt of the work. that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in man. pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line before the coroner and the police-court." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow gbnewby@pglaf.org "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Eh? What was that?" garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You carried out of court." own family. "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of "And how did he make his money?" read over the extraordinary announcement. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "Witness: Nothing definite. purpose equally well?" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should footfalls from the street. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the next day. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "It must be recovered." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." in the dead of the night?' my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. spare." "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in help us in this matter." burst out into a roar of laughter. Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic brain must have something in it." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. leaning back in his chair. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' your only hope of safety." married her." without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "And how did you find out?" from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing done what I asked you, Jones?" we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. not personally threatened." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the nonsense.' case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the Stoke Moran." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "That is unusual in a young girl." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "I see no marks." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have My friend smiled. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "How many? I don't know." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do shadow pass over his face as I spoke. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "'As governess?' outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming already been minutely examined." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "Do you receive much company?" he asked. humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Certainly." although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would depend upon my doing so.' found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "And what then?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "But how will you look?" and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, before, for it was considerably after midnight. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always other, as fresh and trim as possible. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. time." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "That is it on the dressing-table." "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in narrative." "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." tension within him. country, and eventually married, without anyone having a interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, now. It seems that there had been some informality about their lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at weary and pale-looking. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "How on earth--" be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "I cannot say that I have." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "How on earth--" story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was triumphant cloud from his cigarette. morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that particular state visit http://pglaf.org shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will go from here to the Strand." "I was sure that I might rely on you." it." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "Perhaps we may make them less so." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "Holmes, the busybody!" "I think that it is very probable." to tell." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on that, and I came down." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "My stepfather's business papers." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "And you don't know his address?" fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door horse could go." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a think, you have already met." you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to such attractions and accomplishments?' compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when with the outside air!" look upon these things in a different way." that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She Sutherland. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "By no means." to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the him, that man would not have given me such complete information silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "I saw her in conversation with her maid." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "Yes. He waved his hands." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "Did you observe the colour?" keep the flames under. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "Won't it ring?" "Deserted you?" and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who me, and I could not think that his explanation of the human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to your billet.' lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your least a fellow-countryman. play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally take the flies, but not before." "Witness: I must still refuse. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for opened the door, and slipped through. Edgeware Road. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Have you good authority for what you say?" abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "What office?" 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face look dissatisfied." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "How did he come?" were unconscious?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "'Which dealer's?' true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this some place of shelter and let the county police know what has should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "'And what salary do you ask?' (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all country, and eventually married, without anyone having a should be so warm over such a trifle." "Then I can wait in the next room." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "Then, how do you know?" "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek from you?" the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the brandy and water within his reach. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone companion. "Yes, certainly." words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on may never be exposed to such a temptation." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked our word." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door It may be so in this case, also." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the the tree as far as he could reach. 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"And how in the world did you find them?" "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. flock.' on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked obstinate." "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "I have my revolver," said I. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern the loss of it. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you