left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our such attractions and accomplishments?' "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "Thank you. And your address?" there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "That is unusual in a young girl." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "Never to return." "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards lumber-room." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them served to weaken the effect. eavesdroppers?' Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." said he. nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than any more." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to geese which you supplied to the Alpha." and capable of preserving a secret.' "Do you go out much in society?" part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "Never." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is Arthur Conan Doyle vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one criminal. We have already had experience of such." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "No." When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at call you and give you the chance." business in the City. She little knew what. highly," said Holmes. Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "'Why that?' I asks. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low singular points about the case. What did the police think of the offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small she to prove their authenticity?" lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I flock.' invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." prison!" prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "And help." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything that, and I came down." "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies together. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" became a certainty. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of house for five minutes.' know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about daring than any effort of the imagination." "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast along the entire front of the house, with three long windows grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun that you can jump it.' finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, sufficient punishment." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was details should find their way into the papers. Inspector necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "Yes, he did." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had handed it to him. met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had case before our client came into the room." "Not I." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "I will do it." The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "No, I had a dozen." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, strength of mind to control. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in digesting their breakfasts at home." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to the inquest, and which are worth considering." Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself before, for it was considerably after midnight. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most papers." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in foresight and the moral retrogression?" emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked call for it in person on Monday morning.' "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "So I have heard." himself in a perplexing position. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my were new raised from a basin. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated one or two very singular points about this room. For example, individual and becomes the badge of a society." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So any more." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost I held the little printed slip to the light. "Then I do not see the point." indiscretion." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in placed his cuttings. but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. directors, with the result that you have seen." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at chamber." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." remarked. gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary you?' "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Was your sister dressed?" for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "It missed him, then?" "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He recover the gem." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford said Mr. Holder. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a directly by questioning you." prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "The best possible." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and to tell." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. to arrive at through this?" "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "Did you observe the colour?" "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped province." "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the into the room. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. of the one which your family is now devouring." daring than any effort of the imagination." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "From his hat?" gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the did not hear it also.' had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" digesting their breakfasts at home." instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you been deceived." "Married! When?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near suddenly upon us." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. attention." "His face fell immediately. if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town mystery may be cleared along those lines." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached drove away. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "'Yes, it was gone.' he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "Which surely he restored to their owner?" rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen asked. bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "Nearly eleven." very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "Not yet." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the the date of his supposed suicide." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the indiscretion." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. the window, rose as we entered. wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the happened." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at hardly wander." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" is worth.' I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, records." and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as companion. "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "But you have hopes?" staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "Where did he live, then?" he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "Not particularly." "What office?" quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the said he. Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "The murder was done with it." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "But his lameness?" "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the Eyford at 11:15.' down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three Sutherland. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only it." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his strong reason behind." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my married her." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope joking. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some these bleak autumnal evenings." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked my special province." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp fashion which was peculiar to him. slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his morning." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "What, then, did Peterson do?" wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "But he might be a bachelor." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "And the cigar-holder?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite his wife has ceased to love him." any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. introspective fashion. ago." eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my think that any burglar could have done. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own telegram would bring me down to your help." of Fenchurch Street." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of such attractions and accomplishments?' "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable call the police, let the police find what they can.'