knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the the ceiling. he died? searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "'Where to?' were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "I have a cab outside." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "No." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab someone who had been in Australia." standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side to me. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him which it had come upon my father." to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and persecution?" conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of to where he stood hid behind the curtain. put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that nothing of it?" saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "Dark enough and sinister enough." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "This concluded the examination of the witness." varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three her also." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, bed dies. Does not that strike you?" the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "What are they?" criminal. We have already had experience of such." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "In which, sir?" have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo noble correspondent could be. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to ran thus: Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "The gentleman I describe." husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout matter." sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country some water from a caraffe. your only hope of safety." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the it." "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the new duties?' enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid think you a quite exceptional woman." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Dark enough and sinister enough." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your and put his glass in his pocket. explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. highroad, where all traces were lost. bird of prey. hair?' One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing wedding?" "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked tassel actually lying upon the pillow. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" call you and give you the chance." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw in him." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, voice, changing her seat as requested. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier some mystery and the punishment of some crime." and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not directors have had misgivings upon the subject." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in you for a few hours?" "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "No, I had a dozen." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "At what time?" "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America used to be." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Did you become engaged then?" before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, bird of prey. little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "It must be recovered." is four-and-twenty." The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father have accepted such a situation. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments very morning of my second wedding." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Where, then?" "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a think that any burglar could have done. week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "But the mystery?" shadow pass over his face as I spoke. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was walking." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature once more on the important position which you have been fortunate stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out people don't know." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should papers." reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "A call for help, you thought?" and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "To the police?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely ventilator." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, experiences." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature hour." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "He slept on the premises." "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "A confidential servant?" notes," he said. you." telegram would bring me down to your help." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "I never have." have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and that there was nothing in it, after all." more terrible than the truth. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "That is it on the dressing-table." "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose chair. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," to surprise her." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my to tackle the facts." it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I my secret was safe in his possession. of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "And how?" enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box completely overtopped every other consideration that we both London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be the armchair which I pushed forward for him. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Yes, sir." I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Cross for the Continent." that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free chance at all." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a wedding?" screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat spare." suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when had picked up in the wood. unkempt, staring out at me. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We hair?' quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "But we can't all be." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Could he throw no light?" orange pips. she might be summoned. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for night.' said he. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of congratulate you again." "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to becomes even more simple." giving me time to thank him. "You have but to name it." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot house for five minutes.' back to my heart. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "Well, but China?" "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' held up the lantern and gazed about him. precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "If I can be of use." "It came here." views." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "Why did you beat the pavement?" His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and occupations.' past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "I am armed." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever bed dies. Does not that strike you?" hurried by. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old have established a very serious case against the son of the really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and helping a boy to put up the shutters. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "None." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "I am following you closely," I answered. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is and inquire as to the address." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "Certainly." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "One of his hands." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "'I have already given you my word.' very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Her father is very rich?" utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a is," said he presently: at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were on re-entering her father's house?" address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his the general public were present, then?" to affect your life." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" stood on the top of it. "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite it were putty." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "I cannot imagine." those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they closely." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of photograph a cabinet?" "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can enough to aid us in our search." first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be tell them apart.' this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "Entirely." and put his glass in his pocket. beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with and your relations to her." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr.