"I should be immensely obliged to you." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. derbies." Heh?' suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert ways including including checks, online payments and credit card coat-tails." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." yourselves in at night?" From what you have told me I think that it is possible that was keenly on my guard against him. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "Will you bet, then?" Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to such person." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "He is dead," cried several voices. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in she might be summoned. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. said I. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you him nearly every evening." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Yes." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. following enigmatical notices: "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining returning from some small jollification and was making his way if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "To an English lawyer named Norton." penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "Has he come with you to-night?" weapon." recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend any little problem which you may submit to me." over here." "'Where could I find him?' forbidden door. the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "The murder was done with it." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to undoubtedly my uncle's." cheerful." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance will take you up to see the machine.' "He slept on the premises." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the highly," said Holmes. "My dear Holmes!" swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "'Never.' foresight and the moral retrogression?" It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the impression behind it as though a window had gently closed elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon Does that suggest anything?" Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out was once confined in the cab my mission was practically one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "How do you know, then?" "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them Gutenberg-tm License. or other trace. But how on earth--" Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought the bottom.' but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "And now?" He raised his hand. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "'I have already given you my word.' she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "But your client--" cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and a little more before I quite committed myself. reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every more terrible than the truth. "How do you know, then?" "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this 1.F. "Did you become engaged then?" access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age the child." stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many the loss of it. "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" throat." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of of this gang." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "It is possible." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, of it with the greatest attention. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" a monotonous occupation." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "Yes." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "I came to find a friend." returning from some small jollification and was making his way was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. knowledge of the world." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "Why, what do you mean?" still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "Ha! you find it so?" "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "Not social, then?" turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "How many? I don't know." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "Yes, from Horsham." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out and shall probably return to London by the evening train." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "How about poison?" chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, approach us with offers to donate. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Who by?" adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, and inquire as to the address." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and burst out into a roar of laughter. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." have established a very serious case against the son of the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the round and wave him away like that.' "My stepfather's business papers." my special province." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as vanished into the darkness. I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Dark enough and sinister enough." "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "The landlord of the Alpha." reach." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, new acquaintance to Baker Street. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the the ceiling. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can my former friend and companion. were unconscious?" which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "My opinion is in no way altered." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "And now?" He raised his hand. really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic other, as fresh and trim as possible. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were round with crates and massive boxes. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's walking." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "But what is it you wish?" "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Was he the only applicant?" what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." note?" who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had one or two very singular points about this room. For example, in one or two places in England?' union?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, or other trace. But how on earth--" before the coroner and the police-court." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" get her out of the way." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" away to you." did not hear it also.' upon the white wrist. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these pressing in one house as in another. incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them client, rising. examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "Will you bet, then?" them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. morning." "And the cigar-holder?" "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love you want, then?' electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in that before taking the final step I should like to submit the Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." your equipment. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "'Ten to two.' think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "By no means." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the his cane at the bell-pull. "Then I am your man." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and unprecedented a position." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "How did you trace it, then?" and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the their singular warning or token before them when starting upon he. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was been shamefully used." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My south, for the country is more deserted there." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips drove away. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their cheerful." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "Not in a good cause." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his roused himself from his reverie. sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "A confidential servant?" the tragedy. "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." you, my dear young lady?' brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced chill to my heart. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Was she in good spirits?" written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I have a cab outside." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that second." companion. not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his papers on the sundial.'" myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "Pray do so." snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the morning." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "I will do it." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Here?" set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Was she in good spirits?" homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Then I can wait in the next room." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social the best of training." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "It may not come to that," said Holmes. footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus of Fenchurch Street." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it dramatic, in fact." "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? said I. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. laugh and put his lips to my ear. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "The landlord of the Alpha." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "It goes to the housekeeper's room." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "An accident, I presume?" bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "I was afraid that you were engaged." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "My dear Holmes!" voice. "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a roused himself from his reverie. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. in a friendly supper." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "Two days later this same performance was gone through under colonel looking down at me. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform not interfere, come what may. You understand?" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the