"We have tried and failed." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his been lifted and conveyed somewhere." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, the inner apartment." unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the sofa. This way, please!" of." "Upon what point?" delirious. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "My dear Holmes!" wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a not as remarkable as your advertisement." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added retorted upon me, and I on you." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I shoulder; "he's all right." tapping his fingers upon the table. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and was once confined in the cab my mission was practically very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent best detective that ever lived. swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward October 9, 1890. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "Nothing." chair. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the your Highness to the police-station?" the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." of it with the greatest attention. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the manager. inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." sufficient punishment." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "No." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the my little problems." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. in darkness. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be pierced for earrings?" difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were the salesman. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" go back?" and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "I am sure." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See such attractions and accomplishments?' and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg gone. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the over part of the map. "What do you read?" fire. You quite follow me?" the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined his huge brown hands. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while get the tickets." once more. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "I am still in the dark." thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite as yours." a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among never to learn it at all." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the strength." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." back alive. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may will not take me long to tell. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "Witness: I must still refuse. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the giving me time to thank him. For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat subject to the trademark license, especially commercial page at http://pglaf.org from the brougham. opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE forecastle of an emigrant ship. is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk said Mr. Holder. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "I have solved it." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that will take you up to see the machine.' "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Was she in good spirits?" call it cruel." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm Eyford." crackling voice. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the name is different." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, salesman. For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "Never to return." coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. and have this put in the evening papers." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp is a common subject for conversation. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast suspect him." his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got himself to tell his story. the coronet in his hands?" slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "Texas, I think." The summons was a brief and urgent one. incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the is," said he presently: the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "None." bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Where is it, then?" "How are you getting on?" "Precisely." his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, Watson," he said cordially. terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "Perfectly so." jewels which you have stolen?' was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" his face which made him a very different person to the round, posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), triumphant cloud from his cigarette. read it out to me." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just gbnewby@pglaf.org aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the upon the white wrist. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I right! Sit down and let us talk it over." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley was it brought him the coronet? classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year during the last few years, and there are many noble families to delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and about here speaks of his kindness to him." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it works. were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Oh, fresh and glossy." "'A dozen yards or so.' lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set so.' right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "You forget that I know nothing about it." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter with you?" use an arc-and-compass breastpin." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "At what time?" How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. could not account in any way for the presence of the missing his knees, staring into the fire. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, hard-headed British jury." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we remarked. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The past. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Ah, but I was recommended to you." astonishment. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from friend's singular character. papers on the sundial.'" heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. the stones. snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." begun to whiten, even as mine has." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if once more for Briony Lodge. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "And why in hopes?" "'I am sure if I had known--' "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the golden eyeglasses. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: back into the street. dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by window when the police appeared." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good digesting their breakfasts at home." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard hopeless attempt at recovering them." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Stoke Moran." complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, bill, which interests me deeply." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "Well, but China?" long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "That sounds a little paradoxical." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little come either from the window or the door. My attention was Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a read it out to me." any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of breakfast?" "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant like that before?" pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a happened." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Precisely so. But how--" shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "'Never.' handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Count Von Kramm." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "But the mystery?" It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "You think so, too?" "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "Stolen, then." than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held I was concerned in it." this remarkable episode. tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely the iron safe, which he closed upon it. my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have lectures into a series of tales." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was mystery!" herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days to go into your room and bar your shutters?" old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in threw himself down with his face to the pillow. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he to arrive at through this?" "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "Bought." "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "'I shall certainly be there.' is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "In San Francisco, a year ago." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "Then, how do you know?" which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "And how did you find out?" and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and at my remark. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a as this. Pray let me have the details." "Texas, I think." "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for details." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "It was an hour's good drive." It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "And when will you call?" Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless what do you think they found in the pockets?" too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each future lives." despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend him." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a congratulate you again." enter Dr. Roylott's room." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this figure." up this clue while it is still hot." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of shall not find me ungrateful." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. I am not easy in my mind about them." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have Surrey." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. useful material for showing traces. The double line a little clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" investigation." good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project official police." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera very peculiar words of the dying woman?" is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be