"We must have a cab." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months Countess of Morcar's?" had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a October 9, 1890. "My photograph." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "Your French gold?" absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Yes." very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "Who by?" "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "Can I be of assistance?" "'Ten to two.' familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite even of instruction." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some future lives." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest fluttered off among the others. "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "'Yes, it was gone.' occurred." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Yes, from Horsham." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no into the bag, and made for the door. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "You have the photograph?" Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" unprecedented a position." a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what papers diligently of late, have you not?" to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was at my own good fortune. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone figure." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the investigation." "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading information in his hands the value of which he did not himself other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to father's young wife. "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "No." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "You have carte blanche." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who in this way: "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a Count Von Kramm." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to ways of our fellow-men." will find little credit to be gained out of this case." to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California becomes even more simple." "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel recover the gem." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "No, I think that I'll take it." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Pray let us have it, for all that." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior occurred." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; meanly of me." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the your troubles." "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" he. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "In San Francisco, a year ago." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to and inquire as to the address." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "How did you deduce the select?" home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the stepfather?" away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for straightened it out again. "About a month then." "But how did you gain them?" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "I will do it." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "To the police?" place no limit on the sum I may draw." crime. moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "Yes." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "So I heard. You have him here?" common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before you in your example." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until more terrible than the truth. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "I don't believe it." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "It surprised me." made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. For additional contact information: a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. to you." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the lost his Christmas dinner." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Yes, from Horsham." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg foresight and the moral retrogression?" wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be purpose equally well?" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "The doctor?" all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "Then, as to money?" Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall conclusions. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 the Red-headed League." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken there." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which opportunities to fix the problem. gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, from the brougham. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." with some details as to your case." across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old I nodded to show that I had heard. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "I cannot think." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others breakfast?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "No." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that was a perfect sample of the class. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." criminal. We have already had experience of such." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be highly," said Holmes. fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire The King stared at him in amazement. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect to go into your room and bar your shutters?" papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so was already answered. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day delighted to hear it," he said. to change my dress. salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to suddenly upon us." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the outside. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "What can you not understand?" desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see woven round him. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "Witness: I must still refuse. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This leaning back in his chair. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I any." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "Yes." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over voice. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "I will do it." to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up photograph?" "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the pierced for earrings?" side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that the roots. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as any little problem which you may submit to me." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "I came to find a friend." "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. sake, don't!" shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into vanished into the darkness. my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "Yes, it would be as well." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "What, then?" and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I Literary Archive Foundation I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known there!' of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in man. prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "It is half-past ten now." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You were unconscious?" "If so, much may have happened between." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" suspect him." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "Is he quiet?" "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that the room while you explain this matter?" "You think so, too?" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." discontent upon his features. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend bedroom door." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "And your mother is alive?" eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. lids now and glanced across at his visitor. them?" tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "I say that I have solved it." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "What I expected to see." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his had this final quarrel? and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "You forget that I know nothing about it." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "This photograph!" recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms use an arc-and-compass breastpin." not personally threatened." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing them?" Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out cup of tea. "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters stammered. "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the tail." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions events, Mr. Windibank!" that he will be back before evening." so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I