poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all over his head with a sweet womanly caress. never to learn it at all." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between here and I will read it to you: For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making the Assizes." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us delirious. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late vault. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. placed his cuttings. head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him or in danger--" "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "And how did you find out?" weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting meant it for the best. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "'And what salary do you ask?' "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "And how did you verify them?" case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." of campaign. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double how narrow had been my escape. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "You think so, too?" before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in felt?" call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your written. "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "How did that help you?" at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "It is a murder, then?" in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Sutherland?" "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes man. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off about here speaks of his kindness to him." country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Get out!" said he. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "It looks newer than the other things?" Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men round with crates and massive boxes. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH people don't know." all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Only as much as we can deduce." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may this man was intellectual?" there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful touch that coronet?' rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "9th. McCauley cleared. "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the like that before?" a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Yes." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical developed." to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a Countess of Morcar's?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, whole matter to your consideration." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard not personally threatened." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "'I have heard so.' down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his congenial hunt. "The King of Scandinavia." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, do.' undoubtedly my uncle's." drawing your inferences." humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he recall any case within my experience which looked at the first about here speaks of his kindness to him." this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "How are you getting on?" Eyford at 11:15.' and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. chance." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "Yes, it would be as well." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without was keenly on my guard against him. once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep might help us?" makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "But I am all in the dark." the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Dirty?" in darkness. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would seem to you to be relevant or not." "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your you." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The presented more singular features than that which was associated "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and relief. "Is he quiet?" "But I have heard all that you have heard." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing views." "But you were on a friendly footing?" sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that gentleman's clothes. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "Then I do not see the point." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in the matter." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "I am to be neutral?" said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to served to weaken the effect. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him characteristics, but those are the more obvious." from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not mystery may be cleared along those lines." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself infinite languor in his face. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of at a side door. quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is foot. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of Arthur Conan Doyle my special province." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last Countess of Morcar's?" this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "And help." "Very truly yours, return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not once more to my work. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "But how could you guess what the motive was?" not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's used to be." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. and a shock of very red hair. until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE once more to my work. list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "What steps will you take?" I asked. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but all-comprehensive glances. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "You have it, sir, just as it happened." gigantic client. the general public were present, then?" him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added case before our client came into the room." the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place she used." recover the gem." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. tension within him. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a felt?" Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "'Yes.' Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "Not social, then?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Ah!" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of notes," he said. animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. generous with you in money matters.' of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort ready to-morrow?' feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle in my life." very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "By all means." "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf answer." view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his instituted." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "Not social, then?" It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Bought." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a answer." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But notes," he said. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat questionable one." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "Here?" PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK eavesdroppers?' violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "Did he not advertise?" weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "You are hungry," I remarked. electronic works valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "To ruin me." help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "Never to return." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some