connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "There is the writing." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Certainly." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "He is dead," cried several voices. as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were was shining brightly. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the opened a pocket-book and took out a note. annoyance, but no jest. "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in been able to understand it, in a very few words. Does that suggest anything?" the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from newspaper selections." whatever might befall. smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "No." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some towards the blaze. that white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross conduct the inquiry." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it him. written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger papers on the sundial.'" Where does the thing come from?' prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked investigation." sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "Entirely." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up down from London to inquire more deeply into it." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "'I have already given you my word.' scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of said he. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "Yes." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; down. read it out to me." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and read over the extraordinary announcement. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you train from Paddington which would bring you there at about the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "Certainly." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "I assure you that I am in your hands." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "But I am all in the dark." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, of it with the greatest attention. "Then I am your man." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it down. away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. main points of my analysis." snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." Lee, in the county of Kent." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "About a month then." awaited us upon the table. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." was lame." the coronet in his hand?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two success. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at me, and I could not think that his explanation of the former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the to me. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very answer." of Mr. Rucastle's." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to he. are, and they are waiting for us." "None." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the I have it here in my museum." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be you want, then?' collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "I do." "Here?" would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and me where it went to?" I. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest that he will be back before evening." good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here troubles have been weighing upon his mind. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "That also I could fathom." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "And what did you learn from him?" "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "Then how many are there?" public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Game for a morning drive?" of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no which should have the effect of calling the attention of the I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and horse could go." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy colonel looking down at me. outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our colonel looking down at me. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. more solid." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. read over the extraordinary announcement. he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Then I do not see the point." never will be, entirely cleared up. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, gone. my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open people don't know." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' most interesting one." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the persecution?" low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler said he at last. thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of business at Coburg Square is serious." "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in presented which may be striking and bizarre without being drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "What office?" "But his left-handedness." "Certainly." or in danger--" the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." neither fascinating nor artistic." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "I would give my fortune to have them back." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "Yes." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the Pool. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "Oh, fresh and glossy." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Certainly." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, the child." "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no did not hear it also.' over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He remarked. observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Precisely so. But how--" He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to congratulate you again." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it from you?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "But how?" iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "And Miss Sutherland?" the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United true." I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "How on earth--" "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "Certainly, madam." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "What have you done?" asked Holmes. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, dear old homesteads?" "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal which our visitor detailed to us. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "They are typewritten," I remarked. governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was a monotonous occupation." over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil his fortune, and I went back to pa. mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "'Why that?' I asks. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "Pray be precise as to details," said he. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, returning from some small jollification and was making his way "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had depend upon my doing so.' "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "Do you receive much company?" he asked. settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it gentleman's clothes. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "How often?" might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and him. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the his face. "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From face and glided from the room. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his his forehead." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "To an end?" down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" your equipment. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his hereditary King of Bohemia." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "And now?" He raised his hand. prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "'Certainly not. But why?' "And why in hopes?" that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I good-night and bustled off upon her way. slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall some place of shelter and let the county police know what has invisible to me," I remarked. "9th. McCauley cleared. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "What, then?" probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with business came to an end." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "On Monday." fluttered off among the others. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "'About the same.' "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found head. So long, then!" every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "'What, the red-headed man?' case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "A client, then?" photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. this man was intellectual?" Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be detective. overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case weapon." houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been dramatic, in fact." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "She walked into the breakfast-room." strength." absorbing." protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in or other trace. But how on earth--" room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "He is still with you, I presume?" overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left me upon any point which I do not make clear." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss woven round him. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, vague figure huddled up in the darkness. present." "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on and prosperity to your house. Good-night." of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Thank you. Pray proceed." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "It is a murder, then?" feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal of the efforts of the United States government and of the better thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "She told me to ask you." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "'Yes, sir.' "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, constraint." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the me upon any point which I do not make clear." every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester.