practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it points to suicide?" fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "Where, indeed?" From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." one which it was hard to resist. surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Well, some hundreds of times." her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was there in twenty minutes." your sleep?' in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "From his hat?" "I have a cab outside." lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "Seven!" I answered. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "I don't believe it." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. public press." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "It's nothing of the kind." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "I am to be neutral?" closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "I say it is." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "I cannot imagine." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. very old mansion. "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "What will you say?" much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. distinguish the words: approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall appointment with me for six o'clock?" "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "Yes, it was twisted." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt to have been novel and of interest." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. up this clue while it is still hot." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Perhaps we may make them less so." "I came to find a friend." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the vanished into the darkness. "By all means." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may and have this put in the evening papers." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: observed. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any good for you to do.' reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, became a certainty. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "It's nothing of the kind." "Dirty?" hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "He is dead," cried several voices. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "ARAT," I read. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his to me. instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San away to you." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George it." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, in this note: States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We Miss Holder?" about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg name is different." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "I am about to be married." and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. case-book, which he consulted. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "Yes, sir." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to you?" ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned said he at last. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable never came back." freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "Yes, but only for you and me." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs him to be an active member of the medical profession." above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "Holmes, the busybody!" happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The him to go away.' were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and thought that she would have been so carried away." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Well, but China?" down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Eyford." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely hand, madam?" was it brought him the coronet? to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she British peeress.'" Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the official police." been." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Was your sister dressed?" wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "And is that all?" and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban figure." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary of it with the greatest attention. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "'Yes.' records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Come in!" said he. laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible spare." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "But you were on a friendly footing?" always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me invisible to me," I remarked. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey think that he is innocent?" "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "That is it on the dressing-table." London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour occurred." "But to whom?" can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in enter Dr. Roylott's room." lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the companion. inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent wife's character?" "But I am all in the dark." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was horse could go." "But how?" enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." off." the so-precious time, but come!' "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this should be so warm over such a trifle." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. bird of prey. trifles." hard-headed British jury." placed his cuttings. light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "But how?" lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "Ha! you find it so?" sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "The King of Scandinavia." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "I cannot imagine." way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker her also." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of business matters.' Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" in his hands." "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman I have it here in my museum." the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "You horrify me!" "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer any more." "It certainly sounds feasible." and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your wedding?" "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old to Leatherhead. to arrive at through this?" man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at Young McCarthy must be got off, however." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, room?" "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work remarked. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a shall use the carriage to-night." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of is acting for the best. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Ah!" adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Yes." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "The knees of his trousers." "I was mad--insane." was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the do you make of it all?" run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was which was all perfectly true. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "One of the highest in England." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, chair. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this clanging. "'Then let me do so?' had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to awkward doing business with an alias." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be chair. practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "It's nothing of the kind." "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "My dear Holmes!" "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you reach." man. I know him from the photograph." of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "Very much so." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have the Assizes." from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to is four-and-twenty." present." both be extremely obliged.' soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back present." He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he grasp, he hurried from the room. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the go from here to the Strand." England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back never to learn it at all." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a present." Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." is four-and-twenty." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand then?" don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property that, and I came down." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "An enemy?" my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. bird of prey. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "But how will you look?" "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." started for the Temple to see my husband. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. been." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Street. entirely devoid of interest." "What, then?" the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, if I call to-morrow?" look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Not social, then?" and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to the room while you explain this matter?" sake, don't!" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to