Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If the station." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The the nursery. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. him to be an active member of the medical profession." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. copied or distributed: Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of individual and becomes the badge of a society." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "No. What a strange idea!" "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague as noiselessly as she had come. so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge records." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and particular state visit http://pglaf.org "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "Holmes, the busybody!" me upon any point which I do not make clear." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' opportunities to fix the problem. beg that you will break it off." been lifted and conveyed somewhere." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. said he. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "I say it is." in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads tassel actually lying upon the pillow. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Where to?" "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "You forget that I know nothing about it." cheerful." "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their there." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action would then never go into court at all." be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, derbies." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the persecution?" Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "How did you deduce the select?" most important business. It is probable that he will be away all are windows in it, of course?" things are very often connected not with the larger but with the new duties?' laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and advice." great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest tapping his fingers upon the table. behind me. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "'You cannot say what it was?' "I see many objections to any such theory." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door stepfather?" winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out lost nothing by them." disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "I cannot as yet see any connection." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "Pray do so." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "I think that it is very probable." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Will you go?" fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. if she died from some sudden fright." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked goes." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "Yes." voice, changing her seat as requested. The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had locked." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. me. You must get home instantly and act." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman think, you have already met." been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "What I expected to see." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able pierced for earrings?" teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to that before taking the final step I should like to submit the Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "No, distinctly professional." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "I cannot imagine." orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Then he might have called to you?" more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may row." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his said I. making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a bearing upon the case." it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and several quiet little villages up there." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his "We must have a cab." "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. me. confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." and no precautions can guard against." presented more singular features than that which was associated son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of Doctor, of the paper and the date." her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at at a side door. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some the devil!" words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at "It is possible." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." introspective fashion. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated so far?" "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof bell. Holmes whistled. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was him!" ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Could he throw no light?" "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried cigars in the box." "And how did you verify them?" "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was events, Mr. Windibank!" turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from affection." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his tension within him. persecution?" every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. it." "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: despaired of." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and the date of his supposed suicide." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In begin with, and I had not got mine yet." over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "Where did he live, then?" "Entirely." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "You are certainly joking, Holmes." to arrive at through this?" "Oh, the cause is excellent!" affair. the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen pierced for earrings?" "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I sufficient punishment." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "And now?" He raised his hand. public press." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as room. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "He might." what do you think they found in the pockets?" you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "'Yes, sir.' his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a wife's character?" perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "No legal papers or certificates?" "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the business at Coburg Square is serious." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to charged with?" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, shall use the carriage to-night." world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if maiden herself was most instructive." for and were ordered to this address. "Well, some hundreds of times." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke with some details as to your case." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me quite distinctive." flock.' "Then, how do you know?" better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "But how will you look?" gone before you can get him to hospital." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is know all about it," he snarled. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "Nothing." fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "Who was the criminal, then?" dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which ways of our fellow-men." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most chamber." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could of the one which your family is now devouring." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had once more. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "10th. John Swain cleared. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." might help us?" fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and joking. playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" official police." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "By all means." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Then, how do you know?" It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of breakfast?" read it out to me." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." and I shall be with you presently." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope spare." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" severely. 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"'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "What is it?" "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I new acquaintance to Baker Street. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those not as remarkable as your advertisement." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "Yes, certainly." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair that, and I came down." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see so far?" silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "No, my brougham is waiting." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was four million human beings all jostling each other within the no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No the coroner come to?" be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "I cannot think." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if of Mr. Rucastle's." "From his hat?" "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and