guilty one." retorted upon me, and I on you." dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding you." again." Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. someone who had been in Australia." are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have him nearly every evening." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the chill to my heart. future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "But how?" "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off ordinary clothes on?" also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the acted in my house last night?" Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my I have it here in my museum." the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin own family. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "Which are?" He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "Do you know him?" "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of your equipment. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "Yes, sir." the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every see a sister of mine apply for." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every business at Coburg Square is serious." one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Her father is very rich?" ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "I have solved it." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "But how?" "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a you for a few hours?" know that the truth is known." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all him. "A confidential servant?" "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then the house with me." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly points to suicide?" A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the cause to be." "Ten will be early enough." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. wife's character?" suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the bed dies. Does not that strike you?" examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of and looked back. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, of the efforts of the United States government and of the better 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "No bad?" started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the humiliation." "Holmes, the busybody!" "Has he come with you to-night?" "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know tied." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my appointment with me for six o'clock?" wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot meanly of me." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, during which he might have communicated with his friend the them present such singular features as the strange train of my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian never to learn it at all." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were this truth that in these little records of our cases which you ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "I cannot imagine." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." from you?" weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "This photograph!" two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "I should be immensely obliged to you." matters immensely." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he which are rolled in Rotterdam." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means address. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in was keenly on my guard against him. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "One?" learned something! Where are the gems?" "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' not within a twentieth part of the market price." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and papers must be those that are destroyed.' I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I which it had come upon my father." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" gone before you can get him to hospital." trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "But how will you look?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "The landlord of the Alpha." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of obstinate." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, other, as fresh and trim as possible. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly brain must have something in it." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" good-night and bustled off upon her way. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "And how did you verify them?" "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have think, you have already met." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "I am to be neutral?" the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish woman." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in weigh very heavily upon my conscience." ordinary clothes on?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the and your relations to her." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this him, that man would not have given me such complete information the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At 11:15.' "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both weighed down with some great anxiety. "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Pray continue your narrative." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "I have solved it." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich of a light. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "Dirty?" noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "May I see it?" ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. the bed, and you in that chair." "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she there were so many in the whole country as were brought together hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "And help." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and clanging. would apply.' "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by secret." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, murdered man." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "You have the photograph?" both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we him. offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "Only as much as we can deduce." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "Yes." "Did he not advertise?" to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "'How far from the body?' Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the all-comprehensive glances. who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "Come in!" said he. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "And help." betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "How did he come?" "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, upon the white wrist. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. lamp. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking you understand?" Holmes rather sternly. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Ample." and it need not interfere very much with one's other earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by other lovers by making love himself." can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not had picked up in the wood. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A did not hear it also.' has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you before, for it was considerably after midnight. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the were unconscious?" hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "The rest you will leave in our hands." lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "The Cedars?" it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which things are very often connected not with the larger but with the my friend's incisive reasoning. lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper was keenly on my guard against him. father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I a little more before I quite committed myself. wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be brain must have something in it." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." bled considerably." Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." voice, changing her seat as requested. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are ventilator." "How did you deduce the select?" sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets said he. in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some infinite languor in his face. "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and late!' very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "And the cigar-holder?" you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "No. What a strange idea!" took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they and that he would see to anything that turned up. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily to his chemical studies. "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "If I can be of use." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "Why serious?" and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." Arthur Conan Doyle him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' go--none." bare slabs of marble. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to have an American origin." "Certainly." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to maiden herself was most instructive." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm I have it here in my museum." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his and wait." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "It is very kind of you." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "His face fell immediately. telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other is acting for the best. generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "I will try. What is it?" one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a