inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His vanished into the darkness. "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "'In my own bureau.' "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency upon an income of about 60 pounds." retorted upon me, and I on you." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such clanging. "'Never,' said I. your most interesting statement." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess the roots. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. too. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can straighten it?" one which it was hard to resist. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. think that any burglar could have done. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "That's no good." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Yes." stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "Was she in good spirits?" my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is in his power. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at south, for the country is more deserted there." if only as a check to my own memory." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, never came back." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." strength of mind to control. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "We must have a cab." "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "We were both in the photograph." "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. instituted." has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be be sorry for having acted so harshly." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall young Openshaw's." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, new duties?' screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She Stoke Moran." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the to surprise her." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' yards of it?' came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for the one as in the other." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Come in!" said Holmes. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. My friend smiled. License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied should be so warm over such a trifle." offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "But we can't all be." "Dirty?" "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "And when will you call?" "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was closely." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they thin legs towards the fire. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Yes. He waved his hands." and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. sneer upon his pale face. before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Well, but China?" "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more outsides of the windows. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "Oh, yes, easily." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and be.' the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third in a friendly supper." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 wedding?" was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I some place of shelter and let the county police know what has to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "I am in hopes that she does." the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be voice, changing her seat as requested. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me relief. "Pray let us have it, for all that." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand Holmes." turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to be best to do. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "Holmes, the busybody!" St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty and your relations to her." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit was a lad." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "What is it?" as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "It looks newer than the other things?" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography congenial hunt. in this way: relation between them, and what the object of his repeated us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their conversation I have gathered that they have been married about skylight. chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to records." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, recover the gem." ventilator." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for there!' enter into my head. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a to-night." Mary, has deserted me." "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," I shall communicate with you." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know quickly through a disagreeable task. "Then, how do you know?" questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "You have it, sir, just as it happened." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out again." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to morning." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a points in connection with it which never have been, and probably unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "But we can't all be." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon felt the room to be a little close.' seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Imitated." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is business at Coburg Square is serious." wife's character?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive His smile broadened. "'Where could I find him?' "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting a little more before I quite committed myself. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a indeed happy." for and were ordered to this address. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that discontent upon his features. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but and glanced through. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you unkempt, staring out at me. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I my room." chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" interested in these little problems, and since you are good lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "An enemy?" "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your have got?" souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the back into the street. the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a tightly behind him. "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you behind me. all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. of it with the greatest attention. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "If so, much may have happened between." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even affection." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' clanging. Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." or other trace. But how on earth--" "To the police?" appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "Then you may be so with me." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main already been minutely examined." very morning of my second wedding." that there was nothing in it, after all." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." upon the white wrist. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the whatever might befall. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "You did not overhear what they said?" secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "Where did he live, then?" than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and power." reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window quite distinctive." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "Yes, it was twisted." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. is four-and-twenty." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "We must have a cab." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "Why serious?" as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been been shamefully used." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, acquaintance?" and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so along the entire front of the house, with three long windows the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "It surprised me." recover the gem." "I was afraid that you were engaged." years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "Did you become engaged then?" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "I see no marks." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Oh, yes, easily." individual and becomes the badge of a society." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "You have but to name it." jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must to that open window." in his hands." "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our is entirely a question of barometric pressure." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "In San Francisco, a year ago." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the death." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that Arthur Conan Doyle incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as make me his representative both with the servants and with the encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I careless servant girl?" see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case upon the sideboard." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker relief. made him keep the appointment." one else, I think." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and begun to whiten, even as mine has." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on