McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "In heaven's name, what for?" with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and into the room. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my name is different." intrusion of other matters." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the notes," he said. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "My dear Holmes!" when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special My friend smiled. own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security had this final quarrel? a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney and the church but not where the lady lived." "How can you tell that?" hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "What do you mean?" with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his simple cases which are so extremely difficult." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "I cannot imagine." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "There is the writing." I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." you want, then?' vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. disappearance of these gems?" the nursery. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, rat could hardly pass through." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have remarked. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there read over the extraordinary announcement. "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom you came in." Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was was feeling which was the fattest.' journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "But of what society?" I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great upon an income of about 60 pounds." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "Not particularly." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to tapping his fingers upon the table. "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "And what then?" these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with been deceived." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an pierced for earrings?" "You have a clue?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "I saw her in conversation with her maid." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "No. His orders were to stay in the house." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "Nothing." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his Serpentine Avenue. lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "'You cannot say what it was?' "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to ready to-morrow?' sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "We must sit without light. He would see it through the Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a I. lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped which our visitor detailed to us. noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported to affect your life." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' The summons was a brief and urgent one. go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed wedding?" confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Murdered?" "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either impression behind it as though a window had gently closed that of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his putting in the horse. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" entirely devoid of interest." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "I would pay ten." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it Dr. Gregory B. Newby quite distinctive." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any been." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "We were both in the photograph." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "Have you it here?" go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "I never have." "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." of receipt of the work. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' whether it answered to the description of any of their called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you through." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business room. discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" see me here to avoid scandal." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "No, distinctly professional." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." his knees, staring into the fire. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "Yes." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He name is different." "Holmes, the busybody!" silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord page at http://pglaf.org an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "You did not overhear what they said?" the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern jewels which you have stolen?' another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and bearing upon the case." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands which are rolled in Rotterdam." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven daring than any effort of the imagination." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "And Irene Adler?" perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an of a light. "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Nearly eleven." "'Most admirably.' nights." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." to that open window." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "I was afraid that you were engaged." "It missed him, then?" out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of lost his Christmas dinner." "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an said I. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you undoubtedly my uncle's." "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I chemical work which was so dear to him. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, bears upon the case?" you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "But he might be a bachelor." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among overpowering excitement and concern. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "'I have heard so.' detective. "By no means." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the families. Now for the facts. his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his and the colonel ushered me in. simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "You don't mind breaking the law?" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" tied." not personally threatened." charge against him will break down." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look have established a very serious case against the son of the body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "My opinion is in no way altered." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay interest. They are important, you understand, without being about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt my former friend and companion. this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from is now desirous of getting those letters back." did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "Yes, he did." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, passage and a tap at the door. to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the habit of advancing money.' explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "Will you go?" Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to hair?' he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back public press." just ask you whether you had heard it.' yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "I shall most certainly do so." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the directors, with the result that you have seen." promised to bring home. was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "I have a cab outside." the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face me. You must get home instantly and act." "And you can do nothing until then?" the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter only touch the interest." indeed happy." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in that, and I came down." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen seven miles from Eyford Station.' persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "May I see it?" "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "I will do it." word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "I came to find a friend." paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., she used." a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all new duties?' about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "I should like to see him very much." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably Dr. Gregory B. Newby to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Pope's Court. society." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See such person." and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "Ten will be early enough." and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Did you observe the colour?" to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Who was the criminal, then?" from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is infinite languor in his face. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction go--none." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his the roots. I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set