absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly occupations.' really the only notable feature about the thing." We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "I cannot tell." Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the until night should bring an explanation. "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "It is true that I have been generally successful." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Her father is very rich?" reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an woman." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the American. Then who could this American be, and why should he The note was undated, and without either signature or address. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "And you thought he was pulled back?" followed. secret." my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little depend upon my doing so.' at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk upon the white wrist. those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "No, distinctly professional." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "To the police?" eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." it means?" mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it evidence," I remarked. not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Yes, sir." force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at to that open window." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." other lovers by making love himself." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I spare." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "Then I shall certainly come." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some Doctor, of the paper and the date." we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, the devil!" rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "You have it, sir, just as it happened." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned that I am arrested." plantation.' me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and place no limit on the sum I may draw." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "If I can be of use." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which clanging. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he o'clock is it?" at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "I have a cab outside." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and absolutely follow my advice in every respect." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable straighten it?" possible that we could bring him back to her? listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he about. she might be summoned. Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "No." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague subject to the trademark license, especially commercial bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "I am in hopes that she does." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. him to go away.' hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I three of the beryls in it, was missing. Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the the date of his supposed suicide." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have But Holmes shook his head gravely. after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, stammered. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "Ha! you find it so?" sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather a monotonous occupation." which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a unprecedented a position." "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "'Yes, sir.' "Is he quiet?" Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "Well, but China?" and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his Project Gutenberg-tm works. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "No, distinctly professional." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Not social, then?" belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has seven miles from Eyford Station.' has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "And you don't know his address?" chair. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." night.' said he. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate triumphant cloud from his cigarette. round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both is four-and-twenty." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with forbidden door. in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Not in the least." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Well." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "'I am sure if I had known--' both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and go--none." back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." as the one I chose?' his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, delighted to hear it," he said. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, for and were ordered to this address. clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in advice." "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a the warnings." "'And the work?' from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "A call for help, you thought?" rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "That is possible." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond instituted." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the business matters.' conceal it?" Pope's Court. a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "Breckinridge is his name." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "She showed me, as I told you she would." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "The Cedars?" "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." 'please.'" "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "But your client--" "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, over part of the map. "What do you read?" There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "From his hat?" 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the business matters.' I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts place of silver." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any observed. "Was the window open?" "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "I am about to be married." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the directly by questioning you." "Then what has happened to him?" father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, taking in every detail of the apartment. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with to where he stood hid behind the curtain. he bowed and left the room without another word. repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most October 9, 1890. sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "It came here." that you can jump it.' and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Yes." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common forebodings. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a presume?" to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." very old mansion. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project gone before you can get him to hospital." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the I took the paper from him and read as follows: happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, careless servant girl?" "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat mystery!" cheerful." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "None." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the so far?" whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, tell them apart.' that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up wedding?" strength of mind to control. "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we believe that I should never have any practice at all. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular writer." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence Project Gutenberg-tm works. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." fire. You quite follow me?" "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were my room." upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "Certainly, madam." question. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that "That sounds a little paradoxical." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his Street. and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "You will not go there first?" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a believe that I should never have any practice at all. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "I am following you closely," I answered. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. highly," said Holmes. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and Literary Archive Foundation drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the correct than the official force." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend distinguish the words: think you a quite exceptional woman." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and acted in my house last night?" "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I other lovers by making love himself." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "Only as much as we can deduce." "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "I should be immensely obliged to you." chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" fled together." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more go from here to the Strand." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact this Miss Turner." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It joking. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a guilty parties." forbidden door. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "None." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "I am about to be married." "I say that I have solved it." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "Why, what do you mean?" Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "The landlord of the Alpha." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. companion. "Yes. He waved his hands." me where it went to?" might help us?" "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "The rest you will leave in our hands." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across