Street. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you directors have had misgivings upon the subject." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel telegram would bring me down to your help." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "And what did you learn from him?" "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "My dear Holmes!" even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" your Highness to the police-station?" which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Stoke Moran?" said he. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my point in the dark hollow of his hand. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused his face which made him a very different person to the round, photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." not fit the lock." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "'And the work?' have accepted such a situation. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said business came to an end." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at strength in the others." now. It seems that there had been some informality about their him nearly every evening." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he I approached. to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. for its centre. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "What steps will you take?" I asked. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one behind me. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He examine." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and to-night?' served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial not interfere, come what may. You understand?" face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "What is it?" brandy and water within his reach. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "Very much so." upon the shelf for the interim." "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "I am armed." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey tail." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that examination of the premises, but without finding anything which fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' about here speaks of his kindness to him." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him question. "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it a suggestive one." The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other mystery may be cleared along those lines." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and orange pips. "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this remarked. "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "He might." conclusions. on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into thin, with a long, sharp nose?" subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and have established a very serious case against the son of the dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "'What are you doing there?' he asked. could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "Do you receive much company?" he asked. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "It is very kind of you." Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Where did you address your letters, then?" "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few sofa. This way, please!" Stoke Moran." the running down." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door father's young wife. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "It is very kind of you." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "I have come for advice." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be DISSOLVED. like gravel from a pit.' sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" room. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." later, upon the night of May 2nd." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "But how?" a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" green of the new foliage. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the away in different directions, and I went off to make my own thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real Young McCarthy must be got off, however." case-book, which he consulted. my secret was safe in his possession. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "I promise," said Holmes. that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. never to learn it at all." months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "'You cannot say what it was?' said Mr. Holder. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "I beg pardon." of this gang." indiscretion." "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth evidence," I remarked. "BALLARAT." "One of his hands." brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "You horrify me!" said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." think that he is innocent?" I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into ago." "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "What?" their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any of a light. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which voice. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "'Yes, sir.' ordinary clothes on?" "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the salesman. violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other tension within him. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set should be so warm over such a trifle." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into which our visitor detailed to us. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am flock.' "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally it." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from unclasping of his long thin hands. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who companion. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how when you have done it." conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited in my life." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough his face. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the at a side door. through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his one of them." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "My opinion is in no way altered." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Not social, then?" It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he lips." something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will think you a quite exceptional woman." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "And on what day did he meet his death?" "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at upon the sideboard." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with colour had been driven from his face. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "It was an hour's good drive." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the bill, which interests me deeply." first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "And how did you find out?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, writing, and yet I know it well." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a everything which you would wish to know." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not Surrey." elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the way in everything. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office back into the street. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His written, and locked the door of the office after me. heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "And what then?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, the child." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." a suggestive one." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "To ruin me." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "And you don't know his address?" should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he emerged. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such footfalls from the street. shall not find me ungrateful." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "I shall be delighted." "How did you deduce the select?" recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "I assure you that I am in your hands." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may astonishment. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "Never." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Quite so." young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately shaken than I had ever seen him. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced upon a handsome competence. one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note DISSOLVED. "Did your wife hear all this?" certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite now. It seems that there had been some informality about their maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a What do you deduce from it?" "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white best detective that ever lived. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty whole matter to your consideration." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps which it had come upon my father." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it fire. You quite follow me?" "You horrify me." no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner obstinate." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "That also I could fathom." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black that?' prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked went to the Alpha were town bred." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. to his chemical studies. You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. you." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 there is a decided draught." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an future lives." what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of to tackle the facts." the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. three fields round his house, and there he would take his these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of would then never go into court at all."