"We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "'Which dealer's?' unprecedented a position." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted experiences." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as only touch the interest." a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and Sutherland. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, the date of his supposed suicide." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort present." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the Watson," he said cordially. a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her which was all perfectly true. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "It is half-past ten now." the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my one's self under obligations.' gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one subject to the trademark license, especially commercial of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the results." Watson," he said cordially. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. the salesman. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition key of the affair now." once more for Briony Lodge. Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "Pray let us have it, for all that." comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here status with the IRS. money should be paid at once.' "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief will take you up to see the machine.' For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave important." "I think that it is very probable." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed burst into a hearty fit of laughter. his grey eyes. people in all walks of life. brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was morning." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said once more. lips." could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "What do you mean?" been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly the iron safe, which he closed upon it. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a experiences." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was and capable of preserving a secret.' business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, wedding?" after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having returning from some small jollification and was making his way arms and began to sob in a high treble key. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "The King of Scandinavia." some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it your billet.' but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, I held the little printed slip to the light. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "How did you deduce the select?" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know writing, and yet I know it well." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. done what I asked you, Jones?" that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. grasp, he hurried from the room. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "That's no good." shall not find me ungrateful." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. thin legs towards the fire. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was felt the room to be a little close.' unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "Come in!" said he. the stones. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or the window, rose as we entered. owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Where, then, is my wife?" "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were obstinate." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, correct than the official force." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is down in his armchair and closing his eyes. in the port of London." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your Street. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "Yes." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very into the room. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back not fit the lock." "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves rose-bushes. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate see me here to avoid scandal." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the Leadenhall Street--and--" stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the congratulate you again." out." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he considering the formidable letters which were received by himself initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may opened the door, and slipped through. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any breakfast." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Dark enough and sinister enough." is now desirous of getting those letters back." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who dramatic, in fact." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to the general public were present, then?" Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but there!' "The gentleman I describe." again, where I was soon asleep. sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. invisible to me," I remarked. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, forbidden door. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and dead, shall be safe with us." "My private note-paper." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For of this gang." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "'Ten to two.' "But your client--" does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "Perhaps we may make them less so." made his money." garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "No, but the enclosure is." out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet prisoner's face. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose brought there to personate someone, and the real person is my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six his grey eyes. an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she visitors." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by them present such singular features as the strange train of it means?" the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "'Is purely nominal.' upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Witness: It was. some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of it." these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came the armchair which I pushed forward for him. just ask you whether you had heard it.' his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss and put his glass in his pocket. you want, then?' weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' hardly wander." "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "And for present expenses?" in a friendly supper." "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "The Coroner: What do you mean? work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any with her." "But your client--" eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Thank you. Pray proceed." As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, examine." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in weapon." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to tapping his fingers upon the table. Clair, of Lee." return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "If I can be of use." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project than was visible to me." the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out tell me that you intended to go into harness." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper opened a pocket-book and took out a note. reach." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I Munro.' gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "In the cells." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to showing my impatience. and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more James Windibank. Voilà tout!" would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to hour." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" than was visible to me." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case during the last few years, and there are many noble families to which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the armchair which I pushed forward for him. I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "And what then?" building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said unprecedented a position." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat other means.' that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "That is also quite modern," said the lady. said he. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "Have you it here?" dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. of his shoulders. together. seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his