fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary friend's singular character. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most him nearly every evening." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little footfalls from the street. "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the only touch the interest." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the said he at last. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "Stolen, then." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me vanished into the darkness. loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears Project Gutenberg-tm works. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying not interfere, come what may. You understand?" all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "His face fell immediately. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug empty. "He disappeared so suddenly." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and better in every way that they should make their position a little charged with?" prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable considering the formidable letters which were received by himself felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the bird I ate is country bred." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised him. balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of south, for the country is more deserted there." "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "'As governess?' vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. your billet.' "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the Surrey." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive to miss it." all that?" been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "The rest you will leave in our hands." "Then I shall certainly come." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "I say it is." "I don't believe it." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at if I call to-morrow?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother constraint." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "Nearly eleven." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "Yes." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "My stepfather's business papers." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "What of the rat, then?" should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "Certainly, madam." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all details." stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would closing the door. Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Dark enough and sinister enough." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have in the port of London." ago." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" fled together." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness IS WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. call for it in person on Monday morning.' see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in four million human beings all jostling each other within the considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely has little to do with my story." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." tell him that I know him to be innocent." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "No, thank goodness, she did not." makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "Quite so. She has her freedom." "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated followed. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative electronic works d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Has he come with you to-night?" advice." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house best detective that ever lived. "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather pictures, libraries, or plate. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely better grown goose." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become drove away. sooner or later she must fall a victim. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which stood on the top of it. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got dates and names. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "I think it very unlikely." my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "Very well, sir. And this stone?" remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your some mystery and the punishment of some crime." most interesting one." before the coroner and the police-court." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "'Not at all. I only doubt--' Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were instincts rose up against that laugh. asked with his eyes open. "Very. But will he see it?" it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must passage and a tap at the door. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be is a common subject for conversation. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up I. soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." stepfather?" "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to remarked. "No good news?" "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "I fear not." remarked. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "Deserted you?" bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my drawing your inferences." "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "I am in hopes that she does." the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. wedding?" should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "Yes." flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "It is his hat." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did children over to America with him, so that I found myself without thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I criminal. We have already had experience of such." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my come either from the window or the door. My attention was walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "Quite so. She has her freedom." as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. interest. They are important, you understand, without being was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As is so. I know all about McCarthy." "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "Yes." there when the Rucastles went away." prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to will find little credit to be gained out of this case." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." examine." answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened went to the Alpha were town bred." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "Well, some hundreds of times." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you crowd. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Ten will be early enough." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would to-night?' about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the infinite languor in his face. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he gone before you can get him to hospital." "But how will you look?" to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was overpowering excitement and concern. "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was one's self under obligations.' arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes thirty. been deceived." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "You are certainly joking, Holmes." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what villagers almost as much as their master. something of him before." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside of Fenchurch Street." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered handed it to him. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If prisoner's face. "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I me have 200 pounds?' I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "It is possible." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "I cannot as yet see any connection." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the and the whole place is in a blaze." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the there!' princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the strong and stiff." as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "And your father? Did you tell him?" comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "'Yes, I promise.' in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." in. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. this truth that in these little records of our cases which you the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "What shall I do?" away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing the general public were present, then?" "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and if I call to-morrow?" the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the guilty parties." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate Again Holmes raved in the air. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "An enemy?" week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. Mrs. Toller serenely. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone distinguish the words: "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a where we are going." "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "Not I." hand, madam?" the matter." suddenly upon us." and the colonel ushered me in. prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "If I can be of use." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Then I do not see the point." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal writers could invent nothing more crude." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "And Miss Sutherland?" "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for fled together." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The and the church but not where the lady lived." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in electronic works said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no bare slabs of marble. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere."