here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "What I expected to see." my special province." left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' stood on the top of it. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a What do you deduce from it?" tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "And why in hopes?" Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. soul! here is her carriage at the door." and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "It is no ordinary one." horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "Yes." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that singular points about the case. What did the police think of the 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "No, thank goodness, she did not." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "The gentleman I describe." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another geese which you supplied to the Alpha." reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." Arthur Conan Doyle Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his throat." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "Married! When?" doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave standing smiling on the door-step. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was nonsense.' Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all in the dead of the night?' Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "At the wedding breakfast." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most presume?" in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "You don't mind breaking the law?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "Witness: I must still refuse. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. electronic works head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Yes, they were peculiar boots." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or that I may have something better before very many minutes are was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and considering the formidable letters which were received by himself appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Tired-looking or fresh?" Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the this unhappy family?" 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "To an English lawyer named Norton." Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then me what he had done with the three missing stones. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, ceremony." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" woven round him. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the hopeless attempt at recovering them." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the the Friday. Was it to be in church?" maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a do you make of it all?" business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "'Very good.' like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" hard-headed British jury." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can astonishment. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a at once, for I have only half an hour." second." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill there." "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "The best possible." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary on re-entering her father's house?" think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would union?" air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the her also." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of must be when I saw the door open.' 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern questionable one." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "I think it very unlikely." placed his cuttings. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "Will you go?" had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was business in the City. She little knew what. long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' will not take me long to tell. records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "You have carte blanche." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "What! Had he lost his wife?" he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view bears upon the case?" you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, Arthur Conan Doyle "Of Friday, June 19th." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop you." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "Bought." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at allusion to a rat. some terrible trap for her." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a in the port of London." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "Imitated." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in to a light-house. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "Absolutely none." widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad opportunities to fix the problem. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "Very truly yours, "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "'A dozen yards or so.' and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into Serpentine Avenue. IS of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "This photograph!" by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Won't it ring?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Then the page we have seen--" "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was was already answered. "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** arms and began to sob in a high treble key. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in means taking possession of that which another person has a prior God! What an exposure! What can I do?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished means taking possession of that which another person has a prior which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "Very. But will he see it?" confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. easy-going way." familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with was used.' through." down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when morning." thirty. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "Indeed! Whose, then?" "That is also quite modern," said the lady. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "She showed me, as I told you she would." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me to have that photograph." money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Yes, sir." "I beg pardon." "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' anything to do with the matter?" "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his south, for the country is more deserted there." we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience you for a few hours?" although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town companion imperturbably. "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her coroner's jury." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" careless servant girl?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "I beg pardon." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside would apply.' "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, said Mr. Holder. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you him nearly every evening." precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, said Mr. Holder. George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. future lives." appeal." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the Sholtos." bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "'Then let me do so?' the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "No, finished." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, that I can to serve you." something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Precisely." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." your most interesting statement." beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "Yes." instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "To the police?" "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "'Yes, it was gone.' my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to key of the affair now." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very him." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated sufficient punishment." not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." was keenly on my guard against him. "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to chambers. chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this results." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a were unconscious?" "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked other means.' address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the chamber." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the go back?" to a more successful conclusion." of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "How did that help you?" of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him place of silver." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with just called myself is not exactly my own." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera my little problems." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "VIOLET HUNTER." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there province." "I should be immensely obliged to you." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those cause to be." "Then how many are there?" main points of my analysis." at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are ceremony." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just