Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "But your client--" "I was certainly surprised to find you there." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the walking." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and mysterious end." "'You doubt its value?' he asked. upon the shelf for the interim." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her the general public were present, then?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I prepare for the new role I have to play." the morning and make my own way in the world.' have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first and all of them with the keenest interest. "Where did he live, then?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them what do you think they found in the pockets?" credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. your room." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "My photograph." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Only as much as we can deduce." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "My private note-paper." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. my little problems." few hundred pounds.' was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed ways of our fellow-men." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. reach." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "No, distinctly professional." is four-and-twenty." appointment with me for six o'clock?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will indeed which he could not unravel. case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all read it out to me." "He said that you could solve anything." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "No, I had a dozen." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is brought there to personate someone, and the real person is following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell were wasted." "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." his face which made him a very different person to the round, you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with the roots. bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "No." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten that I may have something better before very many minutes are heavily into it. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" again on its way. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "Upon what point?" we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "No." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered standing smiling on the door-step. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "Not I." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "I cannot imagine." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of the so-precious time, but come!' It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after better grown goose." Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the father's young wife. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of Mrs. Toller serenely. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated your billet.' There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited his knees, staring into the fire. "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was been able to understand it, in a very few words. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! to go into your room and bar your shutters?" twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "How did he come?" "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her floor. square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow strength." "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that locked." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "No, but the enclosure is." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "How did you trace it, then?" parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "It surprised me." following enigmatical notices: it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "I would pay ten." although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "My photograph." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the vanished into the darkness. "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall have established a very serious case against the son of the had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he of Mr. Rucastle's." out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a particular state visit http://pglaf.org word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was chair. have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "'Where to?' the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 indeed happy." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the said he at last. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned was once confined in the cab my mission was practically excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "About a month then." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were make me his representative both with the servants and with the I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she that the gas is not laid on in his house?" of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what IS sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from sufficient punishment." springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to even of instruction." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "Awake, Watson?" he asked. some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the questioning and rather startled gaze. cost them two and thirty pounds." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of himself. "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That http://www.gutenberg.net The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper in a very precise fashion." had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "The landlord of the Alpha." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily there in twenty minutes." suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Perhaps I have." aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "In what way?" asked Holmes. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the for the market.' IS was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "She showed me, as I told you she would." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are away into the river." ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress into the bag, and made for the door. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." six. Come in!" "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; be best to do. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Did your wife hear all this?" broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when carpenter." than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just exactly what you advise." "I am following you closely," I answered. page at http://pglaf.org hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, charge against him will break down." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "I cannot imagine." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was that I am arrested." delirious. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a Arthur Conan Doyle up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. "What are they?" father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing appeal." last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to giving me time to thank him. ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat thin, with a long, sharp nose?" doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." the loss of it. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her problems help me to do so." had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always young Openshaw's." centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel Arthur Conan Doyle battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the I think that I could be of assistance to you." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. business?" deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" so far?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing undoubtedly my uncle's." sufficient punishment." "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the situation." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out point in the dark hollow of his hand. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I me, and I could not think that his explanation of the conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "And the murderer?" original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some few hundred pounds.' we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. seven miles from Eyford Station.' "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not strong reason behind." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client stepfather?" have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any six. Come in!" "Really! You surprise me." figure." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from we went to search for him, face downward in a little "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. instituted." prison!" and glanced through. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the to-night." sooner or later she must fall a victim. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "And it is--" a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that is," said he presently: in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable narrative." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "You did not overhear what they said?" so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story companion. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I asked with his eyes open. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence Pope's Court, Fleet Street." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you you, my dear young lady?' and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round there when the Rucastles went away." impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "I cannot imagine." away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "Have you it here?" which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Nothing?" one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City.