the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the delighted to hear it," he said. unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be daring than any effort of the imagination." his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "It certainly sounds feasible." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I of a light. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little soul! here is her carriage at the door." place of silver." article?" the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things the inner apartment." "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, both be extremely obliged.' "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him rat could hardly pass through." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive your own bird, so if you wish--" Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless pressing in one house as in another. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge few hundred pounds.' enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "A greater distance to travel." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the garden below. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the sit on the left-hand side of the driver." near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where you for a few hours?" fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the Holmes' thin, eager face. you." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were this as likely?" footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus tied." advice." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from deduce something from that?" apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. leave you to your papers for a little." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out pictures, libraries, or plate. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing you came in." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I down. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "Entirely." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I orange pips. bled considerably." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was amused." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the reach." counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with I shall communicate with you." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because formed some opinion?" "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I emerged. "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "But not more so than I to find you." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "Eh? What was that?" is worth.' off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "What can it mean?" I gasped. encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "And did you observe any change in her then?" turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my out." http://gutenberg.net/license). "A call for help, you thought?" clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he prisoner's face. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen and no precautions can guard against." "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday fact, we may call it conclusive." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us be there in time for your coming." danger is over." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "The murder was done with it." "I will not look." street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "Yes." "And Miss Sutherland?" in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "Quite so." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "On Monday." some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable and looked back. "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed charged with?" surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "And how did he make his money?" they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. the matter." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa to-night's adventure." shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, enter into my head. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, this Miss Turner." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." I think that I could be of assistance to you." we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "Yes, at the mines." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "What is it?" and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." papers must be those that are destroyed.' seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect bonnet, and went out." put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about fashion which was peculiar to him. compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which dates and names. arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! be.' pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the Holmes' room. to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave I am not easy in my mind about them." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is singular points about the case. What did the police think of the Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is ashen face. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. south, for the country is more deserted there." returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and your room." "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose digesting their breakfasts at home." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of weighed down with some great anxiety. unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a in one or two places in England?' cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should on re-entering her father's house?" would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "He disappeared so suddenly." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "'How far from the body?' "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five dear old homesteads?" which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "And help." important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I populous neighbourhood." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to eavesdroppers?' wall." as the one I chose?' me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his charge against him will break down." and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name and looked back. lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the people don't know." during that time.' London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in call for it in person on Monday morning.' trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "'Why that?' I asks. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "What will you do, then?" the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "But how did you gain them?" fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Murdered?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found said I. of the vacancies.' reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "Oh, yes, easily." never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "'Most admirably.' "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Where to?" "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "Perhaps I have." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" me upon any point which I do not make clear." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "He said that you could solve anything." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have is acting for the best. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." during that time.' "Then I am your man." which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon I nodded again. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "I think that I had better go, Holmes." appeal." "I cannot as yet see any connection." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which Sholtos." corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered served to weaken the effect. "My photograph." answered with a sidelong glance. writers could invent nothing more crude." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, McCarthy's innocence. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "And leave your case unfinished?" as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. such attractions and accomplishments?' may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I lamp in his hand. could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and my special province." "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK little adventures." affair. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon of the one which your family is now devouring." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Edgeware Road. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in The note was undated, and without either signature or address. clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "His face fell immediately. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start companion. "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "I have a cab outside." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such skylight. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "Quite so." reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very quick march!" course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." wedding?" "You think that he is dead?" say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have disappearance of these gems?" 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "It must be recovered." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, call for protection in the marriage market, for the present over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson breakfast." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against as yours." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely