"You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Why? What do you mean?" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to the armchair which I pushed forward for him. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he prove to be little relation between the different incidents of letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy forehead. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I more solid." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with locked." present." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in until night should bring an explanation. feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "It looks newer than the other things?" had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. have I gained?" was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "None. Neville wrote those words." "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." tell him that I know him to be innocent." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel felt the room to be a little close.' this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal Street. outbreak?" of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but very peculiar words of the dying woman?" petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the morning." "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I the stones. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. wall." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. said he. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "What then?" see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the unkempt, staring out at me. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." there!' "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "Yes." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, started for the Temple to see my husband. "I don't say that. Perhaps." itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was at my remark. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, question. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the before the coroner and the police-court." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the fish-monger and a tide-waiter." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the over here." the coronet in his hands?" hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for works. See paragraph 1.E below. "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was his huge brown hands. our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had and effective." "No sign of it?" envelope. "Here?" "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what his face which made him a very different person to the round, "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling that the gas is not laid on in his house?" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's the iron safe, which he closed upon it. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not unkempt, staring out at me. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in noble correspondent could be. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "It was a confession," I ejaculated. set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "I know where it is." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent tapping his fingers upon the table. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" conceal it?" "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." you." "I will not look." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Not yet." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts I nodded to show that I had heard. will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found you in yours." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" said he. understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and get her out of the way." British peeress.'" my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for III. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of the coronet at all injured?" Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if the bed, and you in that chair." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining appeared upon the scene." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman will find little credit to be gained out of this case." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those foresight and the moral retrogression?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "You think so, too?" golden eyeglasses. cigar and let me expound." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be eat it." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon directors have had misgivings upon the subject." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "Yes, it was twisted." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. distinguish the words: seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as bedroom door." train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "It is very clear." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "Where, then, is my wife?" seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "That is also quite modern," said the lady. and capable of preserving a secret.' He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "Thank you. Pray proceed." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same danger is over." wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "To the police?" have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and point our research must commence, and we will begin it by which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "Get out!" said he. "You are certainly joking, Holmes." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night out of this horrible affair." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "Well, it is a possible supposition." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much without success. At last the little money which I had saved began our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the once more to my work. treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to new duties?' "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice was already answered. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "I have a cab outside." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, entirely lost his self-respect." "I have come for advice." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to was the fact that his father should, according to his account, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send sound at heart." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of house for five minutes.' unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "Where, then, is my wife?" the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "She told me to ask you." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "Yes, he did." "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, the matter." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the village inn over there?" elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. 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'They will be here in a "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "BALLARAT." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "No." so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "It came here." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, people in all walks of life. conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "It is possible." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "Yes, it would be as well." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. charged with?" glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the power." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "And help." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am get the tickets." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than Henry Baker is a member." "'Where could I find him?' young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough to go into your room and bar your shutters?" threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "It came here." "Well, it is a possible supposition." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable Watson," he said cordially. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may despair." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." in his power. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." of the vacancies.' where we are going." "I beg pardon." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have Count Von Kramm." "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from to go into your room and bar your shutters?" word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little you, my dear young lady?' is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property shoulder; "he's all right." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the experiences." 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