*** START: FULL LICENSE *** the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "One horse?" interjected Holmes. gone. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their him to be an active member of the medical profession." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "I know where it is." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. here." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "And how have you succeeded?" right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had situation." the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his least a most suspicious remark." "By all means." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence to tell." south, for the country is more deserted there." narrative." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the how narrow had been my escape. "Not I." when you have done it." o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a is," said he presently: a few minutes he said that it would be all right. and your relations to her." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." passage and a tap at the door. it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "The Cedars?" to miss it." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the armchair which I pushed forward for him. Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "That is unusual in a young girl." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not his face which made him a very different person to the round, Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Never." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these following enigmatical notices: becomes even more simple." address. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "An enemy?" finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Could he throw no light?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after narrative." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew could not have written that. It is the German who is so when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know approach us with offers to donate. public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have investigation." Sutherland?" Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. page at http://pglaf.org fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "Frequently." summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." conduct the inquiry." Count Von Kramm." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and events than those which have happened in my own family." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "Dirty?" wanted for ourselves." I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The done what I asked you, Jones?" suddenly upon us." rooms." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "VIOLET HUNTER." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect appointment with me for six o'clock?" tail." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good crime. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really through." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. Gutenberg-tm License. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "I am armed." and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two Where does the thing come from?' o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his dear old homesteads?" "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the shag which I had seen upon the previous night. conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman some city in a dream. "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with the coroner come to?" "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down as yours." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had trying to your nerves." enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. answer." long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. guilty one." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. him." behind me. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Yes, only one." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to them, and came down just as you departed. seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he from the brougham. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in down in his armchair and closing his eyes. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your fasten all the windows?" off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in me. whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. page at http://pglaf.org his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them you came in." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the ourselves in the office." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "What will you say?" small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked vanished into the darkness. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "My photograph." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell written, and locked the door of the office after me. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "No." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with must compliment you." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback to-night?" I asked. chill to my heart. "What then?" have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for views." my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of three fields round his house, and there he would take his as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the in. article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "And I to find an enemy." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Here?" hard-headed British jury." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, London for the present?" "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I that a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope thirty. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "This photograph!" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" down from London to inquire more deeply into it." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "But to whom?" upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back despair." deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst with you alone." three of the beryls in it, was missing. "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and Where does the thing come from?' money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of the address that was given us in the advertisement. "I will try. What is it?" them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his points to suicide?" paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and easy-going way." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall are windows in it, of course?" never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been house for five minutes.' approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have as he remarks, very much against the son." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is to tackle the facts." low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his page at http://pglaf.org The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, someone who had been in Australia." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "How on earth--" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Yes, the wine-cellar." two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you gone. insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "It is half-past ten now." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, not, dad?" she asked. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "My last client of the sort was a king." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick his face. silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his what is your own theory as to what took place?" very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from instituted." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, chambers. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." six. Come in!" them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "No." bears upon the case?" could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "It is possible." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "'Never.' "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the said Mr. Holder. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, stalked out of the room. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements your bag." somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we a good hundred miles off by now." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "The rest you will leave in our hands." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that purpose of examination. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "What will you do, then?" Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "We must sit without light. He would see it through the long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up away into the river." so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the fire. You quite follow me?" bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock joking. despair." "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great bore every mark of being an average commonplace British public press." battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "The best possible." companion. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even happened." companion. populous neighbourhood." IS very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it ago." "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your companion. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "'Quite sure, dad.' soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." interested in these little problems, and since you are good breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "Look there!" said he. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous have not had my rubber." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "Then I am your man." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far peculiar to him. "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "I never have." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Yes." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "'And what are they worth?' I asked. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time