her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I voice. which was all perfectly true. "'Certainly,' I answered. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." showing my impatience. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "You horrify me." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she allusion to a rat. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. wall." at once, for I have only half an hour." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "Perfectly so." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to the child." Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Never." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way know what is wrong with it.' with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up know all about it," he snarled. street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a again." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "I have come for advice." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the your own bird, so if you wish--" have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. wall." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "He said too much." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and o'clock is it?" own family. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "I was mad--insane." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I presented more singular features than that which was associated had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that point our research must commence, and we will begin it by a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But have had none more fantastic than this." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "'I am sure if I had known--' almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do charge against him will break down." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "He said too much." earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of it right.' "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a notes," he said. matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning been deceived." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "The Coroner: What do you mean? Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "'Yes, I promise.' "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now never will be, entirely cleared up. appeal." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "What then?" but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen results." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "Breckinridge is his name." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove the loss of it. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If my secret was safe in his possession. brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "Only as much as we can deduce." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case most important business. It is probable that he will be away all to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old second window is the one that I jumped from." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he problems help me to do so." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "Well." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "And when will you call?" "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. absolutely follow my advice in every respect." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." point in the dark hollow of his hand. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have redistribution. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's speckled band?" wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "Yes." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "I am still in the dark." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to not, dad?" she asked. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her see a sister of mine apply for." were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Then I am your man." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, own family. snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, upon an income of about 60 pounds." union?" "Game for a morning drive?" and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Won't it ring?" was already answered. that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes think that any burglar could have done. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the is four-and-twenty." strength in the others." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "And is that all?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, floor. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." before the coroner and the police-court." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the hurried by. about here speaks of his kindness to him." to have been novel and of interest." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "Then I can wait in the next room." Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "Tired-looking or fresh?" collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." head. So long, then!" "Of Friday, June 19th." colonel looking down at me. License. You must require such a user to return or turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried several quiet little villages up there." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical likely to be some crony of the landlady's." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his examine." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several one or two very singular points about this room. For example, him. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "My dear Holmes!" details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. union?" "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you children over to America with him, so that I found myself without had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad wedding?" effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would system of imprisonment?" "You heard nothing yourself last night?" not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as hour?' to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be jewels which you have stolen?' staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea your bag." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature during that time.' Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "So I heard. You have him here?" his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. to you." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father was lame." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "Yes." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "What have you to say now?" myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself sentimental considerations in the background which would induce rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I me. You must get home instantly and act." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of purpose of examination. felt?" lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw strong reason behind." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry easy-going way." the Red-headed League." Holmes' face clouded over. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "I see no marks." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "What will you say?" know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life keep the flames under. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "Stolen, then." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord rose-bushes. "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without I was concerned in it." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' him to go away.' "I beg pardon." instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Look there!" said he. did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this begun to whiten, even as mine has." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been it means?" rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney public press." "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own answer." he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "Did he not advertise?" to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "I think that it is very probable." Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who I shall communicate with you." going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." advice." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the to have been novel and of interest." bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who lamp. if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always this poor creature." the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your and it need not interfere very much with one's other stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving sneer upon his pale face. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be could not have written that. It is the German who is so opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held was once confined in the cab my mission was practically not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "In the cells." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever eat it." there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Where, indeed?" street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "Has he come with you to-night?" "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Did your wife hear all this?" you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my past. he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood is so. I know all about McCarthy." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "Tired-looking or fresh?" particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I promised to bring home. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, tied." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "'As governess?' or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "You have a clue?" Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "No, I think that I'll take it." "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The rat could hardly pass through." would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a spare." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she.