***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, pictures, libraries, or plate. from you?" silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have gentleman's clothes. thought that she would have been so carried away." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "One of his hands." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Where does the thing come from?' undoubtedly my uncle's." very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Nothing?" nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made and laid it on the table. the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "What! Had he lost his wife?" was a perfect sample of the class. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Yes." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." forbidden door. gigantic client. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Where did you address your letters, then?" King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "Is he quiet?" I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "Dirty?" all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be in. inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable stood on the top of it. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases article?" particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was night.' said he. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "Yes, at the mines." reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from people don't know." "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "Thank you. And your address?" parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the works. See paragraph 1.E below. to miss it." at once, for I have only half an hour." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would as he folded up the epistle. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. said I. the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and to take care of herself." grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought papers must be those that are destroyed.' "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon Young McCarthy must be got off, however." every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "At the wedding breakfast." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running to go into your room and bar your shutters?" seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' good-night and bustled off upon her way. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "Your sister is dead, then?" active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project the Friday. Was it to be in church?" the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you to go into your room and bar your shutters?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "I fear not." across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in you in your example." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. me. You must get home instantly and act." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, vault. "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the as noiselessly as she had come. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were already been minutely examined." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "Married! When?" "That is unusual in a young girl." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "What, then, did Peterson do?" "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "I will try. What is it?" "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a following enigmatical notices: "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "He said that you could solve anything." For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "I saw her in conversation with her maid." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near you." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's look upon these things in a different way." "How often?" brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. you give your casting vote to?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, entirely devoid of interest." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered second window is the one that I jumped from." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a less than 26s. 4d. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "No." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize me. You must get home instantly and act." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "'Oh, no.' and that he would see to anything that turned up. that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful client, rising. Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his and wait." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "And you can do nothing until then?" "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I if she died from some sudden fright." something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, Holmes." and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until did not hear it also.' previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined you found me to-night--and running through the front room she happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly tapping his fingers upon the table. get the tickets." "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker shoulder. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner the coronet at all injured?" "Yes?" the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "The rest you will leave in our hands." my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "And on what day did he meet his death?" wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind of them has the shutters up.' streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Where, indeed?" helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had question," said Holmes, smiling. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with yards of it?' "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are detained." to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a may never be exposed to such a temptation." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "I cannot think." it." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your and no precautions can guard against." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "'I shall certainly be there.' gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." bird I ate is country bred." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your crime." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "But she could not love him." the inquest, and which are worth considering." than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which and capable of preserving a secret.' Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. article?" It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle from you?" Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, gone before you can get him to hospital." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "I think that I had better go, Holmes." confronted him. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another security.' true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly other, as fresh and trim as possible. you." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable obstinate." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Do you go out much in society?" "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw unprofitable." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" points in connection with it which never have been, and probably from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring most interesting one." your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm III. shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your been." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On locked." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I the best of training." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, point in the dark hollow of his hand. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been himself in a perplexing position. remarked. "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up the stones. for the market.' really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home nights." remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "'Ample.' All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "And your mother is alive?" will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become over with notes and figures. chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, village inn over there?" The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "Perhaps we may make them less so." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "And why in hopes?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "Pray do so." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over disturbance in my wife." "Not I." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "Did he not advertise?" on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter that before taking the final step I should like to submit the I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. sound at heart." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some note?" son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the be. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." were unconscious?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "You have but to name it." "Nearly eleven." occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "What?" It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, joking. late!' "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Pray be precise as to details," said he. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, like that before?" 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, made him keep the appointment." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "'Which dealer's?' actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further chemical work which was so dear to him. "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "The murder was done with it." "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "One of the highest in England." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the I approached. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons weapon." Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience hard-headed British jury." lamp in his hand. trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried.