heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical again." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, know what is wrong with it.' clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. swore that no one else had been in the front room during the animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he companion. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and companion. madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "In what way?" asked Holmes. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the Stoke Moran." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers sufficient punishment." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was see me here to avoid scandal." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "Yes." matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he situation." lips." august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us and glanced through. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I which we had just quitted. of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "What, then?" Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your which our visitor detailed to us. "The best possible." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and photograph?" DISSOLVED. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "I will not look." best detective that ever lived. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do I am not easy in my mind about them." once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that use an arc-and-compass breastpin." head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and friend's singular character. Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled third from London." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea were wasted." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary upon a handsome competence. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "I don't say that. Perhaps." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated Holmes." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say stammered. Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in read it out to me." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. case before our client came into the room." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I recover the gem." have established a very serious case against the son of the "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; late!' much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may weapon." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "VIOLET HUNTER." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid photograph?" should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Where, indeed?" strength." "At half-wages, in fact." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I absorbing." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out furiously. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through which should have the effect of calling the attention of the have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' strode off upon his way. after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence whether it answered to the description of any of their there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "I am still in the dark." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my tension within him. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "That is unusual in a young girl." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "About a month then." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "And you thought he was pulled back?" already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "He might." the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over test if we have an answer to our advertisement." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than maid will bring up your coffee." "So I have heard." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' side. there was no need for father to know." thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both carried out of court." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that leaning back in his chair. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I lamp. half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. to tackle the facts." back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "I have a cab outside." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned papers diligently of late, have you not?" "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking geese which you supplied to the Alpha." conduct the inquiry." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock that before taking the final step I should like to submit the words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "It is a murder, then?" that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "An enemy?" What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "'I am sure that I do not know.' I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "But you can know nothing of this?" certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." voice. look upon these things in a different way." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "I see many objections to any such theory." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the orange pips. other, as fresh and trim as possible. "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Then you may entirely rely on me." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with are, I think, all that we need." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, detained." There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian the nursery. off." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "No more words. Get out!" hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such himself in a perplexing position. the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as Dr. Gregory B. Newby back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "What, then?" attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but nothing with him." his wife has ceased to love him." "One?" "Did you observe the colour?" quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my strange features which were associated with the two crimes which could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "And sit in the dark?" reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to brandy and water within his reach. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "It's nothing of the kind." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about rose-bushes. They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich more terrible than the truth. You want to know what became of those geese?" without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most I approached. "You don't mind breaking the law?" fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that learned something! Where are the gems?" I shall continue with my miserable story. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley both be extremely obliged.' is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking arms and began to sob in a high treble key. the ceiling. is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. question. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "'Entirely.' bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "It is very clear." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there definite end. week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "Then, how do you know?" off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "It is true that I have been generally successful." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent Edgeware Road. him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was place no limit on the sum I may draw." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "'Certainly,' I answered. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which the general public were present, then?" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. back to my heart. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last with the outside air!" "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at for its centre. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "I shall most certainly do so." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly at a side door. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "Then the page we have seen--" putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Mary, has deserted me." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. hard-headed British jury." equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "We were both in the photograph." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Then how many are there?" "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas wanted for ourselves." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "You think that he is dead?" were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "Yes, only one." But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading overpowering excitement and concern. matter over." envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil