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Neither of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." locked. above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is Leave Paddington by the 11:15." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their means taking possession of that which another person has a prior evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had new duties?' on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "Well, but China?" words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "You think so, too?" "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said back into the street. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "How often?" loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and been deceived." the dangers which encompass me." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "You are certainly joking, Holmes." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way washing it down with a long draught of water. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I present." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which place of silver." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the way in." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a is so. I know all about McCarthy." spare." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" off." should be taken.' "Not in the least." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly that, and I came down." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was likely to be some crony of the landlady's." disappearance of the bride.'" shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "I guessed as much." tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project pierced for earrings?" himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public and put his glass in his pocket. some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Quite so. She has her freedom." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out cigar and let me expound." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend your only hope of safety." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "One?" manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue weighed down with some great anxiety. madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "My opinion is in no way altered." make me his representative both with the servants and with the "By no means." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in the little opening for the ventilator is." help us in this matter." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "You don't mind breaking the law?" will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to is acting for the best. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but that you can jump it.' thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "About a month then." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, once more. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said character. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "My photograph." "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "And why?" "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "Witness: Nothing definite. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which papers." Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "Always." particular state visit http://pglaf.org I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of way in." police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his bare slabs of marble. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house intimate personal affairs in this public manner." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." do you make of it all?" stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not clanging. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to during the last few years, and there are many noble families to what do you think they found in the pockets?" at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side the nursery. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their not, dad?" she asked. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did your Highness to the police-station?" for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the swore that no one else had been in the front room during the fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." became a certainty. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had entirely lost his self-respect." asked. "Whose house is it?" aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "You horrify me!" leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical security.' "Absolutely?" occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. grasp, he hurried from the room. "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from go back?" interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "You know me, then?" Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Yes, it would be as well." Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. open." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back allusion to a rat. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was at home. "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried guilty one." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the upon the sideboard." his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if to-night." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, man. I know him from the photograph." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! cigars in their mouths. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "What will you do, then?" hour." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the heavy and sharp instrument." "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain in the dead of the night?' directly by questioning you." discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the Countess of Morcar's?" "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "My dear Holmes!" bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" unprecedented a position." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into the ceiling. would then never go into court at all." not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I will not take me long to tell. "And when will you call?" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Yes, sir." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "And I say east," said my patient. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "Pray do so." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by visitors." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do charged with?" from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "When did it break out?" there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "'And what salary do you ask?' unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "Yes, they were peculiar boots." possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of exactly what you advise." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things fashion which was peculiar to him. my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." long narrative. "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be The police have openly confessed that they can at present make result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows about. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "'And what salary do you ask?' sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to then?" "The rest you will leave in our hands." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "On your arm?" highroad, where all traces were lost. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of I shall communicate with you." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged invisible to me," I remarked. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I easy-going way." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life get the tickets." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "And Irene Adler?" "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "'Oh, no.' my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and back into the street. of Fenchurch Street." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the without success. At last the little money which I had saved began secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the already been minutely examined." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, is now desirous of getting those letters back." hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. records." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an to affect your life." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he had a long day." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always have not had my rubber." gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, of a light. "Yes." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, telegram would bring me down to your help." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and kindly on the shoulder. part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as emerged. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" It was close upon four before the door opened, and a If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when The King stared at him in amazement. have not had my rubber." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the the Red-headed League." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him Gutenberg-tm License. "And I to find an enemy." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't Eyford." Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so persecution?" the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be light and attacked it." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Holmes, the busybody!" my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "Well?" jewels which you have stolen?' tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in at my own good fortune. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred help us in this matter." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and