"Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, James Windibank. Voilà tout!" surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "And how have you succeeded?" "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the strength in the others." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence astonishment. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can You can understand that this register and diary may implicate defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry enough to aid us in our search." at my own good fortune. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as crime. "It was an hour's good drive." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, photograph?" "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Then he might have called to you?" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies for securing the situation." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. round with crates and massive boxes. in the dead of the night?' help us in this matter." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. a monotonous occupation." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its whether it answered to the description of any of their neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. the driver. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "You are hungry," I remarked. "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the father's place of business?" when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "My last client of the sort was a king." "Then the page we have seen--" would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and went to the Alpha were town bred." make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "Yes." depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, anything to do with the matter?" man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "Perfectly so." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. For additional contact information: a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "Where to?" own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I this Miss Turner." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to anything to a woman, for she would have her way." with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "I was sure that I might rely on you." "I have hopes." desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, be.' imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of wedding?" here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "I never have." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, of Fenchurch Street." my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "Stolen, then." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that it right.' usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew status with the IRS. "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "Yes, certainly." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting grasp, he hurried from the room. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the prison!" the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." I approached. "We have tried and failed." their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "Yes." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully in this note: mystery may be cleared along those lines." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "My stepfather's business papers." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "Very well, sir. And this stone?" been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I ill-usage at the hands of fortune. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of outsides of the windows. that you wished to speak to me?' sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a place of silver." "But he might be a bachelor." ventilator." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear this Miss Turner." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead that I may have something better before very many minutes are very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall excitement. eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "His face fell immediately. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Only as much as we can deduce." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Thank you. And your address?" his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses charge against him will break down." looking up at the numbers of the houses." "So it appears." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, interest. They are important, you understand, without being fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "What I expected to see." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage like gravel from a pit.' of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "But she will refuse." ago." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I himself to hunt down. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for conduct the inquiry." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Eyford at 11:15.' "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, depend upon your compliance." know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is and prosperity to your house. Good-night." when your master had gone out." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "I am all attention, madam." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life bare slabs of marble. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, that you can jump it.' he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net writing, and yet I know it well." hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "How on earth--" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a have I gained?" I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and shall use the carriage to-night." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to and have this put in the evening papers." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be The King stared at him in amazement. street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where dead, shall be safe with us." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." must compliment you." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell delirious. steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up distance from the station, and there we found the young lady forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "But it has twice been burgled." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "Very murderous indeed." believe that I should never have any practice at all. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would a suggestive one." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed look upon these things in a different way." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he dates and names. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "And your mother is alive?" exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he distance from the station, and there we found the young lady out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a depend upon my doing so.' the armchair which I pushed forward for him. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you it means?" loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "Not yet." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "Precisely." been deceived." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could without success. At last the little money which I had saved began the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. results." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which place no limit on the sum I may draw." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could to a more successful conclusion." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was a suggestive one." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions said he. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is of your young ladies.' "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "And Irene Adler?" waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was distance from the station, and there we found the young lady had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "None." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that happened." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "What, then, did Peterson do?" left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so strength in the others." "Come in!" said he. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "What! a murderous attack?" he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and even of instruction." "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "What do you mean?" I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "His face fell immediately. I held the little printed slip to the light. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been Street. awkward doing business with an alias." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "No." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by kind enough to tell me what I should do." work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "The doctor?" "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we question," said Holmes, smiling. chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing anything to a woman, for she would have her way." them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already