suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a very morning of my second wedding." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "In the cells." new acquaintance to Baker Street. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Yes. He waved his hands." is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "And I." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery neither fascinating nor artistic." "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey II. "Just look it up, then." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "Do you receive much company?" he asked. without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "Pray tell us what has happened to you." minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "Yes, the wine-cellar." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very writing, and yet I know it well." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Your presence might be invaluable." trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you delirious. heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish was used.' know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "I should be immensely obliged to you." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months populous neighbourhood." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here floor. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while the dangers which encompass me." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of hurried by. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a nonsense.' "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms The King stared at him in amazement. "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about But Holmes shook his head gravely. with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door the running down." at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man very old mansion. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is remarked. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. fear." These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had was it brought him the coronet? washing it down with a long draught of water. "Come in!" said Holmes. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. stepfather?" given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "Was she in good spirits?" slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" prepare for the new role I have to play." you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "Then I do not see the point." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's people don't know." feature." to-morrow." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to three of the beryls in it, was missing. street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by she might be summoned. The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is system of imprisonment?" never came back." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" round with crates and massive boxes. I. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black situation." "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and narrative." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "I do." him to go away.' became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. closely." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "But how?" started for the Temple to see my husband. at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "Will you go?" "10th. John Swain cleared. his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "Your presence might be invaluable." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "I have hopes." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "'Certainly not. But why?' flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "But how will you look?" There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just think you a quite exceptional woman." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is Surrey." "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a appeal." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "I cannot as yet see any connection." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass I approached. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that your troubles." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "I am all attention, madam." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "That you are never beaten." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other your bag." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from forehead. whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" was already answered. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He in my life." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his foot. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open persecution?" so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. dramatic, in fact." fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his hair?' pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." looking up at the numbers of the houses." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not security.' of his shoulders. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap here." over here." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" away in different directions, and I went off to make my own The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "None. Neville wrote those words." Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Very well, sir. And this stone?" of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. heavily into it. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are it. Again Holmes raved in the air. would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very very old mansion. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Tired-looking or fresh?" pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "But his left-handedness." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "I should like to see him very much." "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen chair. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my go back?" was a loud and authoritative tap. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was page at http://pglaf.org "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "Pray let us have it, for all that." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence page at http://pglaf.org daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." details." least a fellow-countryman. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "In heaven's name, what for?" Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. it." cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "And I." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully you." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, and the whole place is in a blaze." woven round him. up this clue while it is still hot." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but The King stared at him in amazement. the coroner come to?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a of the way of danger. As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who DAMAGE. telegram would bring me down to your help." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the likely to be some crony of the landlady's." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and James Windibank. Voilà tout!" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Quite so." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the discontent upon his features. been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "I am all attention, madam." exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "What can you not understand?" any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the peculiar to him. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless prison!" halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he this man was intellectual?" chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" there has been an enclosure here!" About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, key of the affair now." air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion to-night?' brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., so far?" and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the late!' hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "So I have heard." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. kindly on the shoulder. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Will you bet, then?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to will he say when he returns?" whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "I was mad--insane." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which woven round him. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low she to prove their authenticity?" perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite stammered. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, infinite languor in his face. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a that, and I came down." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "What of the rat, then?" The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was depend upon my doing so.' own family. Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "But I am all in the dark." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." door?" were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in ourselves in the office." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even