gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I here." Stoke Moran." loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no man. kind enough to tell me what I should do." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De events than those which have happened in my own family." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were crime. "'In my own bureau.' feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and stammered. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I papers diligently of late, have you not?" her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel the loss of it. not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery future lives." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. indeed happy." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. stammered. beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in gigantic client. maid will bring up your coffee." that there was nothing in it, after all." papers diligently of late, have you not?" so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my village inn over there?" "What shall I do?" have an American origin." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, these bleak autumnal evenings." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two weary and pale-looking. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from was the fact that his father should, according to his account, triumphant cloud from his cigarette. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "I cannot imagine." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "'Stolen!' he cried. During two years I have had three consultations and one small wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "Of what?" reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "What then?" "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to returned to France?" relief. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "None." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and better in every way that they should make their position a little the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in returned to France?" deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman helping a boy to put up the shutters. once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. is so. I know all about McCarthy." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and fluttered off among the others. "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the said Mr. Holder. alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else of note-paper. It read in this fashion: the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Did your wife hear all this?" "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "And your father? Did you tell him?" his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to useful material for showing traces. The double line a little I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the visitors." Munro.' police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was ashen face. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen good-night and bustled off upon her way. state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut entirely devoid of interest." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the arrested. You then--" absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" asked. there." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your corner of the building. "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "But you can know nothing of this?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of careless servant girl?" "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "But you were on a friendly footing?" Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "You have compromised yourself seriously." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers reach." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "You know me, then?" deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from back to my heart. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We spark where all is dark to me." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "ARAT," I read. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually hour?' there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "Do you know him?" yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it Serpentine Avenue. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "And on what day did he meet his death?" the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "If I can be of use." ran thus: "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "No, I am descending." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. in the port of London." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "She will not sell." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the past. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could yards of it?' so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark Gutenberg-tm License. "They are typewritten," I remarked. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to washing it down with a long draught of water. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind brandy and water within his reach. voice, changing her seat as requested. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have what is your own theory as to what took place?" the coronet in his hand?" 1.E.9. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered had no one to advise her at such a crisis." to Leatherhead. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband you in your example." "And why?" of receipt of the work. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Oh, fresh and glossy." just called myself is not exactly my own." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water Arthur Conan Doyle His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but voice, changing her seat as requested. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your sake, don't!" Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and prison!" maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "BALLARAT." "Yesterday." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "But who is he?" husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the address. impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, locked." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only all that?" purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco him!" very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your the tragedy. IS Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a reach." 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital cup of tea. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming This is what he says: Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the to-night?' until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an ran thus: waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "It looks newer than the other things?" fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven as this. Pray let me have the details." notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed the warnings." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose even so self-evident a thing as that." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "That is unusual in a young girl." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Did you become engaged then?" real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend place of silver." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Then you may entirely rely on me." must compliment you." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a is a common subject for conversation. Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Frequently." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced charged with?" towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "'And what are they worth?' I asked. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" few hundred pounds.' "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to I nodded again. "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." miles off. Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Of Friday, June 19th." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By lamp in his hand. "Certainly." there." call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to to you." this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "How long did she speak to this Alice?" claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had Watson," he said cordially. started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down go from here to the Strand." gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming go from here to the Strand." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery next day. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which observed. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, upon the shelf for the interim." hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to his wife has ceased to love him." friend's singular character. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Just look it up, then." shaken than I had ever seen him. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss here and I will read it to you: photograph?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' again." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion shoulder. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing voice. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she Holmes." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "She told me to ask you." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have fluttered off among the others. "And your father? Did you tell him?" make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs made him keep the appointment." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" showing my impatience. of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for room?" Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I awaited us upon the table. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. has little to do with my story." uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." attention." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "Yes, certainly." there!' weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "Absolutely none." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went and a shock of very red hair. if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every the very morning of the wedding." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "No, finished." my secret was safe in his possession. tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" there!' be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. think that any burglar could have done. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an returned to France?" story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so The King stared at him in amazement. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally had picked up in the wood. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the