it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an just ask you whether you had heard it.' "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper her also." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of papers on the sundial.'" passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Why? What do you mean?" there in twenty minutes." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "None." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. something of him before." exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they subject to the trademark license, especially commercial weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "It certainly sounds feasible." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and to a more successful conclusion." down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. wife's character?" "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "Yes, that is the Crown." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, hardly wander." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the system of imprisonment?" your equipment. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "But he might be a bachelor." impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself this as likely?" veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner awaited us upon the table. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "How many? I don't know." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "Won't it ring?" The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I Holmes' thin, eager face. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from works. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced we went to search for him, face downward in a little London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Is he quiet?" feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the read it out to me." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for started for the Temple to see my husband. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a and looked back. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, to-night." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a business matters.' But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds British peeress.'" "Your presence might be invaluable." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or that I am arrested." "BALLARAT." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Lee, in the county of Kent." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in eavesdroppers?' chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were wedding?" "You have it, sir, just as it happened." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "Yes." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can felt?" certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor during that time.' "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. heavy and sharp instrument." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "Not yet." perplexity from it to my illustrious client. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I was a perfect sample of the class. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you helping a boy to put up the shutters. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "That is not always so easy." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "I would give my fortune to have them back." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it you found me to-night--and running through the front room she she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian not interfere, come what may. You understand?" paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of father's place of business?" that you wished to speak to me?' had no one to advise her at such a crisis." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." upon the sideboard." small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my shall use the carriage to-night." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated congenial hunt. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Yes, there are nearly always some there." the bottom.' unclasping of his long thin hands. Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her cost them two and thirty pounds." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "What can it mean?" I gasped. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Not in a good cause." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with 1.E.9. "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come careless servant girl?" endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by noble correspondent could be. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the bed dies. Does not that strike you?" make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be his face. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not and the colonel ushered me in. relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much particular state visit http://pglaf.org my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "I fear not." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Pray do so." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "But what is it you wish?" Stoke Moran." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her eat it." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." fashion which was peculiar to him. telegram would bring me down to your help." "I fear not." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Then the page we have seen--" the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand spare." "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle fuss that is made over them." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's eat it." and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon intrusion of other matters." During two years I have had three consultations and one small father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. interest. They are important, you understand, without being "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the pound a week." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty at a side door. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." 1.E.9. on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "Why serious?" remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "No, I had a dozen." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert standing smiling on the door-step. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and American. Then who could this American be, and why should he the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, to his chemical studies. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the to-night." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I good for you to do.' permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress shag which I had seen upon the previous night. opportunities to fix the problem. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of have I gained?" me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "'And the work?' manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they hour?' presented which may be striking and bizarre without being opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "Nothing." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has his knees, staring into the fire. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. that you saw all that I did." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a even of instruction." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. and shall probably return to London by the evening train." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, to you." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "I have a cab outside." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." was it brought him the coronet? "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the only touch the interest." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "And what did you see?" to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "I saw her in conversation with her maid." here." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "There is the writing." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. writers could invent nothing more crude." "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend upon an income of about 60 pounds." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Witness: Nothing definite. perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "I will do it." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "You have the photograph?" some city in a dream. knowledge of the world." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst them?" vague figure huddled up in the darkness. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "His face fell immediately. "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "You did not overhear what they said?" hardly wander." "I cannot tell." "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door will take you up to see the machine.' invisible to me," I remarked. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "A call for help, you thought?" this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Oh, yes, easily." late!'