came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would observed. of it with the greatest attention. "But how did you gain them?" nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "At what time?" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "What can you not understand?" generous with you in money matters.' From what you have told me I think that it is possible that mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened place of silver." said I. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "That you are never beaten." when you have done it." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you results." the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" in. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can the one as in the other." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before but preventing her from injuring another. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew bearing upon the case." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "'Yes, it was gone.' "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several persecution?" the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "No sign of it?" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was without a word or a look. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me intimate personal affairs in this public manner." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "I think that it is very probable." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural and the church but not where the lady lived." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "'What then?' I asked. of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "No, finished." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch of campaign. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "Yes." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a things are very often connected not with the larger but with the said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "What then?" "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way chemical work which was so dear to him. about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands started for the Temple to see my husband. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "The gentleman I describe." as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." here and I will read it to you: "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "And now?" He raised his hand. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should the night.' I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. chemical work which was so dear to him. that you wished to speak to me?' should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of your young ladies.' course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "Pray continue your narrative." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you now. It seems that there had been some informality about their (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** key turn in the lock." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain again, where I was soon asleep. "The best possible." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, seven miles from Eyford Station.' "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "Is he quiet?" works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, What do you deduce from it?" decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "This concluded the examination of the witness." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very with frightened eyes at his accuser. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest late!' "And sit in the dark?" liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of been deceived." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "You are hungry," I remarked. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely made his money." me." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "But not more so than I to find you." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for trifles." "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as my room." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "I cannot think." already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge fashion which was peculiar to him. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, in a very precise fashion." "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very voice. "What! You do not mean bodies?" and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow envelope. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "'And what salary do you ask?' "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "'What do you call purely nominal?' depend upon my doing so.' avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to that threaten you." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I During two years I have had three consultations and one small "But who is he?" "I do." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "That is unusual in a young girl." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that guilty parties." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to cup of tea. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" in one or two places in England?' before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Married! When?" an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a right! Sit down and let us talk it over." my secret was safe in his possession. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Yes." upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as if I call to-morrow?" "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of round with crates and massive boxes. "Then, how do you know?" this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "And for present expenses?" were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "But how?" behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "Never to return." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "She told me to ask you." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend do." any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "The rest you will leave in our hands." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "And how have you succeeded?" same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, presented more singular features than that which was associated fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, how narrow had been my escape. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in directly by questioning you." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "None." as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it You can understand that this register and diary may implicate opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "And your father? Did you tell him?" will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a walking." "I am all attention, madam." say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, one of the states of the Union." returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "Not him." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." a good hundred miles off by now." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "I guessed as much." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "And what did you learn from him?" impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been anything to a woman, for she would have her way." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, and capable of preserving a secret.' "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "You were travelling in the States?" He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was silent! Oh, he will be silent!' strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second Young McCarthy must be got off, however." a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "It missed him, then?" "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. particular state visit http://pglaf.org leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the jewels which you have stolen?' brandy and water within his reach. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you go from here to the Strand." "It surprised me." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. the inner apartment." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. said he. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "And when will you call?" hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be distance from the station, and there we found the young lady it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "It missed him, then?" "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not cigars in their mouths. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a of." behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming photograph a cabinet?" to surprise her." again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. putting in the horse. "And how did he make his money?" "I see no marks." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "What! a murderous attack?" "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "But how?" telegram would bring me down to your help." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, arrested. You then--" "'Is purely nominal.' presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "Have you her photograph?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the you give your casting vote to?" slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. details." "I have hopes." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich and all of them with the keenest interest. their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to was a loud and authoritative tap. "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was know that the truth is known." encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would a little more before I quite committed myself. came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, drawing your inferences." locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his