submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "You are hungry," I remarked. there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "And what then?" "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the problems help me to do so." "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. overpowering excitement and concern. consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "No, I think that I'll take it." Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Why? What do you mean?" would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left fear." were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of back to my heart. employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." him to go away.' nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "I am sure." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I had formerly been in part my own. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm Edgeware Road. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my if I call to-morrow?" man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "Did he not advertise?" and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry I shall continue with my miserable story. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the introspective fashion. permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly people don't know." for securing the situation." Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded absorbing." "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "Can I be of assistance?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who easy-going way." the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the you for a few hours?" 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "Yes, sir." "No good news?" shall use the carriage to-night." sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all it with his own hands." "Really! You surprise me." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. my little problems." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly The telegram which we eventually received came late one night consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "In answer to an advertisement." "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "'Ten to two.' neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "And how did he make his money?" "No, my brougham is waiting." broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "But how?" photograph?" with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to lost nothing by them." from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Then you may entirely rely on me." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom have I gained?" "Pray do so." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "I should wish to." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "Pray do so." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a recover the gem." crime." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very call it cruel." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact For additional contact information: down. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "What, then?" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. before, for it was considerably after midnight. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the happened." including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that room had already been engaged for us. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I papers must be those that are destroyed.' then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are recover the gem." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "A confidential servant?" without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's this unhappy family?" have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "Yes." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that the coronet in his hands?" clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his garden below. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and with you alone." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a presented more singular features than that which was associated Pope's Court. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the giving me time to thank him. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair works. See paragraph 1.E below. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your should be taken.' He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "On Monday." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One this as likely?" "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." be. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "No legal papers or certificates?" me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "No. What a strange idea!" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "I assure you that I am in your hands." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now there!' not come at once?" she to prove their authenticity?" "He said that you could solve anything." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be his knees, staring into the fire. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "What office?" skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself fat-encircled eyes. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same away in different directions, and I went off to make my own hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some acted in my house last night?" upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "I will do it." as he folded up the epistle. "No." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has of the vacancies.' the ceiling. "Holmes, the busybody!" in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. my little problems." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "Thank you. And your address?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Then what has happened to him?" pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor evidence," I remarked. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided at home. "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I bill, which interests me deeply." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be other lovers by making love himself." peculiar to him. surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately or in danger--" "A confidential servant?" "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses some city in a dream. old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which criminal. We have already had experience of such." call it cruel." adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence on re-entering her father's house?" excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "It is very clear." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Yes, sir." "Witness: I must still refuse. have accepted such a situation. third from London." and looked back. green of the new foliage. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "But how?" mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know have accepted such a situation. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "I think it very unlikely." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And "I came to find a friend." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "'Yes, I promise.' own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "Do you receive much company?" he asked. in. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "You have a clue?" with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "Not in a good cause." America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common desk. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man meant." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been and inquire as to the address." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded likely to be some crony of the landlady's." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "'Then let me do so?' enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is him nearly every evening." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. October 9, 1890. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "She will not sell." forehead. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Deserted you?" perplexity from it to my illustrious client. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I the matter." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature the inquest, and which are worth considering." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Nothing." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on to talk it over. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as your only hope of safety." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to seen the man in the road." "Yes." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. went to the Alpha were town bred." I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding south, for the country is more deserted there." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood how narrow had been my escape. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "No. What a strange idea!" affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "The best possible." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, him." casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. vague figure huddled up in the darkness. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, question. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "And for present expenses?" paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' a very grave face. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "Yes." "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "How did that help you?" Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "And from a noble client?" with frightened eyes at his accuser. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as which it had come upon my father." "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I is," said he presently: received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? woman who has had her own way to make in the world. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "I have my revolver," said I. observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there dates and names. "What! You do not mean bodies?" tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "Nothing." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "But how?" "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "'It is locked up,' I answered. "Where is it, then?" very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off It was close upon four before the door opened, and a foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Then he might have called to you?" the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my