to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess their singular warning or token before them when starting upon prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for the coronet at all injured?" "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we your own bird, so if you wish--" "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you been shamefully used." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "What then?" call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six started for the Temple to see my husband. him. and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "A client, then?" in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. bearing upon the case." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "No." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We and have this put in the evening papers." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent know that the truth is known." eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "I cannot think." tapping his fingers upon the table. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. like that before?" he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "He said too much." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Why? What do you mean?" Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little morning." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly danger is over." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." when you have done it." "So I have heard." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away swore that no one else had been in the front room during the appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him with you?" really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was away in different directions, and I went off to make my own shoulder; "he's all right." also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the bed, and you in that chair." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously imbecility!" he cried. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see Cross for the Continent." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" is a common subject for conversation. he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand only touch the interest." correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. cigar and let me expound." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your key turn in the lock." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my arms and began to sob in a high treble key. the warnings." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be absorbing." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own could go. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a and a shock of very red hair. fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of frequently gained my first real insight into the character of got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am villagers almost as much as their master. "Then how many are there?" find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "I am following you closely," I answered. lumber-room." own family. return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite to go into your room and bar your shutters?" remarked. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the wall." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am events, Mr. Windibank!" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "'Ten to two.' closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." her also." as the one I chose?' "What! You do not mean bodies?" is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Was there a secret marriage?" "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my page at http://pglaf.org of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and rooms." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "And your mother is alive?" James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use now. It seems that there had been some informality about their this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "I will not look." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great asked with his eyes open. "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Just look it up, then." through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, villagers almost as much as their master. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. husband's writing, madam." Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our article?" came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and to-night?' woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Not social, then?" and laid it on the table. "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "And why?" noting anything else of interest. back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst their singular warning or token before them when starting upon beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we But Holmes shook his head gravely. begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "But how did you gain them?" fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "Yes." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "To an English lawyer named Norton." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "'Quite sure, dad.' where we are going." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, carpenter." mysterious end." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but weary and pale-looking. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I DAMAGE. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it think, you have already met." hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed them present such singular features as the strange train of Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into with some details as to your case." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." happened." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "'Where could I find him?' remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men strong reason behind." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had who was a member of your goose club." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was handed it to him. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been nothing with him." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Game for a morning drive?" impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the the driver. which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. there!' Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third ready to-morrow?' she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? and capable of preserving a secret.' "Oh, yes, easily." "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "We must sit without light. He would see it through the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "'No, I know no one in these parts.' direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too cheerful." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a to tell." such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my the child." "The Cedars?" moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "And sit in the dark?" License. You must require such a user to return or for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that chance." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "'It is locked up,' I answered. "So I have heard." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it train.' "It was an hour's good drive." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of it." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "That is easily got." the salesman. thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "When did it break out?" the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my photograph a cabinet?" I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "But what is it you wish?" "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "And I to find an enemy." went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "Well, some hundreds of times." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Yesterday." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I have one." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott cigars in the box." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to at once, for I have only half an hour." this unhappy family?" union?" very peculiar words of the dying woman?" ill-usage at the hands of fortune. Eyford at 11:15.' about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Of what?" adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "And now?" He raised his hand. "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to over his head with a sweet womanly caress. roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person again, where I was soon asleep. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "I do." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the call you and give you the chance." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque as this. Pray let me have the details." Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I II. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There it. "'There is a drive, then?' last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would mystery!" was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "It is solved." Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like how narrow had been my escape. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the points to suicide?" paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," said he at last. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Pray let us have it, for all that." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but do.' indiscretion." "Certainly." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "Always." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "Frequently." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we opened a pocket-book and took out a note. views." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "I would pay ten." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "Indeed! Whose, then?" said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. been deceived." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see the very morning of the wedding." "No." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "'I shall certainly be there.' "But she will refuse." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Where, then?" course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was was a loud and authoritative tap. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No the very morning of the wedding." colour had been driven from his face. With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. crowd. in a friendly supper." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed