in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very as he remarks, very much against the son." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there Miss Holder?" conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "Well, it is a possible supposition." wedding?" to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely here and I will read it to you: "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing went to the Alpha were town bred." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "I guessed as much." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature Dr. Gregory B. Newby enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, were unconscious?" he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it three of the beryls in it, was missing. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "Yes, only one." there." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have putting in the horse. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is upon the sideboard." grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "One of his hands." "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a go--none." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at present." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can of receipt of the work. framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small your bag." the roots. to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "Very much so." other lovers by making love himself." works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain in the port of London." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and if she died from some sudden fright." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was someone who had been in Australia." he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. upon the shelf for the interim." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working the ceiling. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the province." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than *** START: FULL LICENSE *** where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or so.' careless servant girl?" I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Oh, fresh and glossy." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your individual and becomes the badge of a society." remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a of note-paper. It read in this fashion: the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the miles off. bell. Holmes whistled. only touch the interest." Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "But the mystery?" as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "But the mystery?" chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be This is what he says: contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this in. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband Does that suggest anything?" it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "At half-wages, in fact." little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, fait accompli?" rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." is now desirous of getting those letters back." secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "And the cigar-holder?" would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I crowd. "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is recall any case within my experience which looked at the first vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "'Very good.' of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "Certainly." weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last the morning and make my own way in the world.' time." from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them the one as in the other." "Imitated." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "Tired-looking or fresh?" "I will, Miss Turner." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "It may not come to that," said Holmes. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "What then?" patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would furiously. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of if she died from some sudden fright." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated eat it." "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard dramatic, in fact." "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a lectures into a series of tales." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I be.' where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "What have you done?" asked Holmes. quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never the coronet at all injured?" whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "It came here." them?" "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the peculiar to him. "It certainly sounds feasible." "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. go--none." "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our events, Mr. Windibank!" through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, him to be an active member of the medical profession." "'Stolen!' he cried. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." my little problems." of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." sufficient punishment." The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." the address that was given us in the advertisement. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "Not social, then?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it constraint." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this works. See paragraph 1.E below. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, when you have done it." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "What of the rat, then?" you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "Come in!" said Holmes. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square business." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this you in yours." depend upon my doing so.' without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He certainly do as you advise." very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in awkward doing business with an alias." electronic works "What!" he roared. I shall communicate with you." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the late!' have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns hand, madam?" seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "I have my revolver," said I. "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets been." "The landlord of the Alpha." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is sofa. This way, please!" conduct the inquiry." "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "Nothing." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey never will be, entirely cleared up. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little evidence," I remarked. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that way: We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "And what did you learn from him?" shadow pass over his face as I spoke. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm to Leatherhead. a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint to that open window." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband and all of them with the keenest interest. the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "What is it, then--a fire?" wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me been lifted and conveyed somewhere." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating showing my impatience. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right and all of them with the keenest interest. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried one which it was hard to resist. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared closely." of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that thirty. deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the disappearance of the bride.'" wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "It must be recovered." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera papers on the sundial.'" pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line London for the present?" hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "I cannot as yet see any connection." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the Street. disappearance of these gems?" ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he of the one which your family is now devouring." this remarkable episode. "Yes, I have one waiting." cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Henry Baker is a member." come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if quite distinctive." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or detective. Street. year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by which was all perfectly true. however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he some terrible trap for her." Dr. Gregory B. Newby Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "It missed him, then?" "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr.