and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. Holmes' face clouded over. legal crime." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "The murder was done with it." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and constraint." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. again on its way. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a or other trace. But how on earth--" intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of the one as in the other." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third Mary, has deserted me." "When did she vanish, then?" reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded you." from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some because she had spent so short a time in this country that she passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have call for protection in the marriage market, for the present with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "And for present expenses?" without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face distinguish the words: centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So What do you deduce from it?" in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. like that before?" persecution?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely overpowering excitement and concern. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the system of imprisonment?" "In the cells." "About a month then." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "Dr. Becher's." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and present." equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "But I have heard all that you have heard." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike letters?" aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable his fortune, and I went back to pa. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "How did you deduce the select?" the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon about. home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. Holmes." "She told me to ask you." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but even so self-evident a thing as that." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "'I have already given you my word.' and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the for its centre. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was everything which you would wish to know." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Seven!" I answered. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis must compliment you." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. do you make of it all?" again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the fuss that is made over them." real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "Nearly eleven." "'Certainly,' I answered. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace one or two very singular points about this room. For example, lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "But who is he?" As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have memory. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Very truly yours, "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the eavesdroppers?' "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without Gutenberg-tm License. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said light and attacked it." "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of What do you deduce from it?" walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" you in your example." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might green of the new foliage. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "On your arm?" but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were delirious. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." I. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" appeared upon the scene." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the one of them." "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "How are you getting on?" "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "It is solved." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their she has been waylaid. There has been no result." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of your equipment. call the police, let the police find what they can.' the roots. considering the formidable letters which were received by himself He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad speckled band?" better grown goose." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to place, I think that there is good ground to think that the and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, was used.' absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to hurried by. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been and that he would see to anything that turned up. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left Sholtos." "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "But we can't all be." 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong bearing upon the case." acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." me. You must get home instantly and act." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "The decline of his fortunes, then?" where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at rooms." their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his III. are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the clang of the bell. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the posted to-day." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the any more." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "'In my own bureau.' zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across absolutely follow my advice in every respect." his forehead." emerged. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir down. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the evidence," I remarked. or in danger--" "Will you go?" ran thus: better grown goose." down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "So I have heard." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "You saw the ventilator, too?" comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were noble correspondent could be. Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself directly by questioning you." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed to Leatherhead. empty. overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "Yes." "I am in hopes that she does." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the prove to be little relation between the different incidents of man. I know him from the photograph." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "'Very good.' I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an the Red-headed League." written. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew invisible to me," I remarked. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "Thank you. And your address?" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the foresight and the moral retrogression?" which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with wall." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her drove away. unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Very much so." father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, the night.' sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon then?" "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, present." Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly call you and give you the chance." "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "Very murderous indeed." empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two crowd. "Quite so." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the friends, not even his own brother. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "Thank you. And your address?" "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary information in his hands the value of which he did not himself of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen for and were ordered to this address. "Texas, I think." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "What, then, did Peterson do?" have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true quickly through a disagreeable task. glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. it." showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been "Nothing?" "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We who was a member of your goose club." in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Not in the least." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began be.' These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his good-night and bustled off upon her way. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by and I shall be with you presently." business." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "By all means." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "I will get her to show me." other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "'A dozen yards or so.' "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate good for you to do.' his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. matter." Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a following enigmatical notices: repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I village inn over there?" "Yes." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in in darkness. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates chamber." company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out the stable lane now." "Just look it up, then." paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," the little opening for the ventilator is." "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover already referred to. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "I am still in the dark." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "Will you go?" "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was before, for it was considerably after midnight. advice." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "'You doubt its value?' he asked. Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high people in all walks of life.