and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "Then the page we have seen--" A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "'Yes, sir.' rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough likely to be some crony of the landlady's." must compliment you." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "Dr. Becher's." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "And did you observe any change in her then?" then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Never." DAMAGE. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "And how did you verify them?" were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "But I am all in the dark." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "I cannot tell." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or business." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for prove to be little relation between the different incidents of vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "I do." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Holmes' thin, eager face. With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "You think so, too?" especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "I know where it is." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to papers on the sundial.'" alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much to-night." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. my secret was safe in his possession. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the presented more singular features than that which was associated photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his o'clock is it?" And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? all that?" "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "'Then let me do so?' Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent pierced for earrings?" the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "Then I shall certainly come." them?" poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman straightened it out again. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "None." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Not social, then?" said Mr. Holder. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for suggested at once that there must be a communication between the blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not Stoke Moran." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is third from London." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk certainly not very gracious." dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this know all about it," he snarled. helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather burst into a hearty fit of laughter. danger is over." fasten all the windows?" soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I to where he stood hid behind the curtain. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old observed. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "It is true that I have been generally successful." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "I would give my fortune to have them back." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" What do you deduce from it?" facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is individual and becomes the badge of a society." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with villagers almost as much as their master. appointment with me for six o'clock?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was burst out into a roar of laughter. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He very peculiar words of the dying woman?" behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "It must be recovered." attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the was it brought him the coronet? remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of window when the police appeared." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it congratulate you again." head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. public press." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "'I have already given you my word.' down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to cheerful." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest bore every mark of being an average commonplace British gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and begun to whiten, even as mine has." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the indeed which he could not unravel. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "I warn you that they are very incomplete." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that and looked back. coroner's jury." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, 1.F. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the that you can jump it.' have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "The rest you will leave in our hands." serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to your most interesting statement." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, be best to do. light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "It is very kind of you." sneer upon his pale face. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project British peeress.'" "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "No." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of during which he might have communicated with his friend the should be so warm over such a trifle." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the answered with a sidelong glance. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "No. What a strange idea!" resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his once more on the important position which you have been fortunate purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a It was close upon four before the door opened, and a like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his chance." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my window when the police appeared." Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the III. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "That you are never beaten." to have been novel and of interest." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own of campaign. him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "And how?" once more to my work. bell. Holmes whistled. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as your bag." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an following enigmatical notices: groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." indeed happy." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely particular state visit http://pglaf.org "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two question you as to those details which seem to me to be most remarked. "No, finished." security.' searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "I came to find a friend." "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his is acting for the best. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of persecution?" "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "And who is her maid?" back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly the very letters. But what is this written above them?' lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I grasp, he hurried from the room. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to of Mr. Rucastle's." "'Then let me do so?' London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' fishes. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "That is possible." Edgeware Road. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and me. You must get home instantly and act." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took gives a meaning to it." studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from if only as a check to my own memory." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "The vanishing of the lady." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered green of the new foliage. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." companion quietly. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "I shall be delighted." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low ran thus: "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "You have but to name it." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. chair. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" child?' "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to was a loud and authoritative tap. burst out into a roar of laughter. confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for were new raised from a basin. attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated happened." "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he used to be." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their interested in these little problems, and since you are good "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness careless servant girl?" "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had and have this put in the evening papers." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a as the one I chose?' rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving desk. table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. questionable one." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer existence." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be you do it in twenty minutes!' man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "But to whom?" you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that then?" never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Then I shall certainly come." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched think that he is innocent?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the both be extremely obliged.' "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near present strange and interesting features that it is no easy License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "My photograph." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream.