"On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from pictures, libraries, or plate. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I carriage. It was a chestnut." threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will lips." "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "On Monday." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." meant." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a McCarthy's innocence. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., Literary Archive Foundation shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial retorted upon me, and I on you." act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "'Is purely nominal.' overpowering excitement and concern. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his of them has the shutters up.' quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after your bag." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to with you alone." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the had formerly been in part my own. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, giving me time to thank him. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water which I could not give. He asked for Alice. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "'I am sure if I had known--' ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a as he folded up the epistle. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled beyond words. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting details." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, in your London, you will know that the office of the company is safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, where we are going." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and frequently gained my first real insight into the character of I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present even so self-evident a thing as that." "But we can't all be." "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to away into the river." "One?" the Assizes." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "There is the writing." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "Oh, the cause is excellent!" traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide examination of the premises, but without finding anything which and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. best detective that ever lived. ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant was once confined in the cab my mission was practically I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which thin legs towards the fire. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an business." woven round him. "Perfectly so." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "Do you know him?" are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "It surprised me." as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to bled considerably." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George them, and came down just as you departed. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before Street. Edgeware Road. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, returned to France?" between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face late." "At half-wages, in fact." him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now McCarthy's innocence. "Stolen." man. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "Have you her photograph?" passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "I think it very unlikely." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he delighted to hear it," he said. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and Count Von Kramm." nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds for the market.' signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The definite end. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him chill to my heart. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never to his chemical studies. "Proceed, then." stammered. Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door he died? borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or asked. "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all conduct the inquiry." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "And what then?" all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "Oh, fresh and glossy." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "What then?" "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "You were travelling in the States?" Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have me, and I could not think that his explanation of the sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "Thank you. Pray proceed." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were seem to you to be relevant or not." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed digesting their breakfasts at home." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those the coronet at all injured?" have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I congratulate you again." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in main points of my analysis." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some walking." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but it with his own hands." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting already been minutely examined." that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he this Miss Turner." over with notes and figures. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Certainly." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. papers on the sundial.'" forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, been." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, Holmes." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "None." you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He giving me time to thank him. it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before you." your own bird, so if you wish--" "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are papers diligently of late, have you not?" adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant redistribution. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "I would pay ten." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom trying to your nerves." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Why did you beat the pavement?" "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand friend's singular character. time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be you found me to-night--and running through the front room she off." seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in for the market.' generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to the Assizes." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' that you wished to speak to me?' held up the lantern and gazed about him. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his the coronet in his hands?" the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his more solid." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I bill, which interests me deeply." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss more solid." "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on thirty. Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." colour had been driven from his face. tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Stolen." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "Certainly." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital who was a member of your goose club." glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the fled together." the inquest, and which are worth considering." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "Then the page we have seen--" cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at away to you." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "Perhaps I have." "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "I will do it." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "I will, Miss Turner." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "They are typewritten," I remarked. found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed people in all walks of life. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were them?" fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we stammered. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "Then, as to money?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to tell him that I know him to be innocent." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I indeed happy." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a papers diligently of late, have you not?" "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. she used." them?" the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter late!' The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature spark where all is dark to me." "'I shall certainly be there.' of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love persecution?" bedroom door."