"And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You security.' "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "Yes." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "I should be immensely obliged to you." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "It is his hat." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Dr. Becher's." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. persecution?" than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing shall use the carriage to-night." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Nothing." followed. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she and I shall be with you presently." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Yes." companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to acquaintance?" "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if nights." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack delighted to hear it," he said. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them that I can to serve you." "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "No more words. Get out!" scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "He slept on the premises." "'Then let me do so?' undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter weary and pale-looking. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, prove to be little relation between the different incidents of from the brougham. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his bore every mark of being an average commonplace British stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Certainly." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Yes, he did." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom learned something! Where are the gems?" feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "I was sure that I might rely on you." stammered. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. interests were the same as his." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It and glanced through. then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was what do you think they found in the pockets?" time." the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think do.' "But what will you do?" "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "Yes." "I say it is." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a beg that you will break it off." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. begun to whiten, even as mine has." "10th. John Swain cleared. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she chambers. his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "It may not come to that," said Holmes. state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "It is very clear." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled to some other building. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "I have a cab outside." "'Certainly not.' between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong certainly do as you advise." "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "Never." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always not, dad?" she asked. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "I am all attention, madam." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, I have it here in my museum." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. voice, changing her seat as requested. "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away business." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. forecastle of an emigrant ship. to that open window." came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So tail." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were Does that suggest anything?" "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. sit on the left-hand side of the driver." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "What are they?" "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were one else, I think." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "But how?" "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "How did you trace it, then?" "The gentleman I describe." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." read it out to me." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in that I am arrested." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Yes, the wine-cellar." flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror business in the City. She little knew what. neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of villagers almost as much as their master. exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "It certainly sounds feasible." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America bears upon the case?" morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "It is very clear." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be this as likely?" exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "Yes, but only for you and me." already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "To an end?" must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging fear." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about official police." into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, any more." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "'No, I know no one in these parts.' Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening more terrible than the truth. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I go--none." flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than a good hundred miles off by now." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, gone before you can get him to hospital." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler three fields round his house, and there he would take his which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "This photograph!" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "About a month then." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "I cannot say that I have." upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "Yes, I have one waiting." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days see a sister of mine apply for." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the kind enough to tell me what I should do." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either detained." "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of said he. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, union?" the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and eat it." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that certainly not very gracious." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "It is his hat." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Did you become engaged then?" of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this II. accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight served to weaken the effect. might have a private word with us. could gather together that I was able to avert another public mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to himself to tell his story. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "No, thank goodness, she did not." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to unclasping of his long thin hands. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" photograph?" face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in distinguish the words: outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more the window, rose as we entered. "And the murderer?" "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "On the contrary, this is the right side." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, McCarthy." "And I say east," said my patient. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be you for a few hours?" it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must sooner or later she must fall a victim. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "Yes." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big is now desirous of getting those letters back." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the and it need not interfere very much with one's other scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a Watson," he said cordially. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white and wait." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that what I may call a really hard day's work." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found floor. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, and I shall be with you presently." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in my special province." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for carriage. It was a chestnut." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my him!" is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent himself in a perplexing position. "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the security.' in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith you." is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang.