edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of know that the truth is known." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "But you would not advise me to refuse?" which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing three of the beryls in it, was missing. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "It is his hat." people in all walks of life. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "A client, then?" a suggestive one." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "'And the work?' British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after gentleman's clothes. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a bedroom door." result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and strode off upon his way. dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to get the tickets." the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" Arthur Conan Doyle should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs stood on the top of it. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that back to my heart. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "He said too much." there." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we the matter?" been able to understand it, in a very few words. "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "It is possible." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do you give your casting vote to?" not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would the coronet at all injured?" "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, Count Von Kramm." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "What I expected to see." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "But how will you look?" than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "'Then let me do so?' bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while was a perfect sample of the class. foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a on in his house." 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "I don't say that. Perhaps." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the the dangers which encompass me." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand hardly wander." "None." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was may have an influence upon European history." engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "How did he come?" matter." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but important." in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "'Quite sure, dad.' "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "Dark enough and sinister enough." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "But not more so than I to find you." professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more felt the room to be a little close.' end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did there when the Rucastles went away." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of chance at all." of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "What can it mean?" I gasped. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "Your sister is dead, then?" it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "I cannot imagine." "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to happened." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had horse could go." notes," he said. "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads my secret was safe in his possession. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "I assure you that I am in your hands." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know she might be summoned. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "A call for help, you thought?" 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident locked." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for father's place of business?" old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes waste of energy." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "She showed me, as I told you she would." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "That also I could fathom." "In what way?" asked Holmes. these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "I see no marks." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "On your arm?" unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was off." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you them?" mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "I have a cab outside." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" the salesman. first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There you understand?" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "But your client--" events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Very murderous indeed." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "The best possible." so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin presume?" "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." really the only notable feature about the thing." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate business matters.' fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his someone who had been in Australia." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, the little opening for the ventilator is." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project bird I ate is country bred." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his husband's writing, madam." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his American. Then who could this American be, and why should he recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "That was it, sir." emerged. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I indeed happy." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "But it has twice been burgled." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait man. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. tell him that I know him to be innocent." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money is a common subject for conversation. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "And did you observe any change in her then?" "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It will take you up to see the machine.' "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, to Leatherhead. work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" that he will be back before evening." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "To an English lawyer named Norton." families. Now for the facts. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." was a loud and authoritative tap. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "Yes. He waved his hands." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon train from Paddington which would bring you there at about was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" it with his own hands." house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others the iron safe, which he closed upon it. grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and to take care of herself." advice." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask You want to know what became of those geese?" inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To union?" The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." the child." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." be best to do. "'Why that?' I asks. from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "'It is locked up,' I answered. "Was there a secret marriage?" "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. cheerful." to some other building. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "Where did you address your letters, then?" besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to in my life." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "I have my revolver," said I. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Leave Paddington by the 11:15." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "You heard nothing yourself last night?" fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You once more for Briony Lodge. gone. approach us with offers to donate. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. Project Gutenberg-tm works. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at it. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the you?" and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "My private note-paper." the coronet at all injured?" fat-encircled eyes. painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in tightly behind him. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and it right.' through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very hair?' which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from client, rising. the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two Cross for the Continent." "We have tried and failed." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and client, rising. "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Do you go out much in society?" humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy points to suicide?" that I can to serve you." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon read it out to me." "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "But how will you look?" Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "I have come for advice." wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the footfalls from the street. common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "I have hopes." how narrow had been my escape. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "So I have heard." "No, finished." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Dr. Becher's." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was shoulder. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "I should be immensely obliged to you." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "But we can't all be." observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, fishes. "Her father is very rich?" smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. digesting their breakfasts at home." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the there was no need for father to know." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Your presence might be invaluable." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would putting in the horse. you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that Lee, in the county of Kent." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. it with his own hands." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I investigation." opened the door, and slipped through. me upon any point which I do not make clear." blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant the child."