details should find their way into the papers. Inspector be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be is a common subject for conversation. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "Imitated." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." was not a bird to be seen there. fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates do." "Is he quiet?" this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me entirely lost his self-respect." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the appointment with me for six o'clock?" lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked kind enough to tell me what I should do." "Yes, from Horsham." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Ample." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "BALLARAT." never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "Was your sister dressed?" a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "I shall be delighted." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads *** START: FULL LICENSE *** nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was as he remarks, very much against the son." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should of Mr. Rucastle's." its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to the best of training." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She said I. "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "'Quite sure, dad.' that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of society." to a light-house. "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which a monotonous occupation." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed there when the Rucastles went away." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the photograph?" keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "Who by?" pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "I think it very unlikely." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." gigantic client. self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the your Highness to the police-station?" roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as writers could invent nothing more crude." "Did he not advertise?" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my breakfast." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every it." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so brandy and water within his reach. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Where, indeed?" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that bill, which interests me deeply." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted drawing your inferences." prison!" father's young wife. London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "What office?" him, that man would not have given me such complete information drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "A thing like a cleaver," said he. took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I some terrible trap for her." above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "So I heard. You have him here?" "By all means." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey detained." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on that?' "And how did he make his money?" cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be less than 26s. 4d. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with http://gutenberg.net/license). she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a you give your casting vote to?" and wait." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "In what way?" asked Holmes. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "Yes, there are nearly always some there." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and disappearance of the bride.'" Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know matter." figure." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "My last client of the sort was a king." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice papers." prepare for the new role I have to play." the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a other means.' "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the Serpentine Avenue. "Not particularly." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission bearing upon the case." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" the tragedy. general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, residence of the great financier. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "A call for help, you thought?" from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "And you don't know his address?" is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. friends, not even his own brother. swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, Watson," he said cordially. "'Yes, sir.' which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "I would give my fortune to have them back." "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I Dr. Gregory B. Newby interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "And how?" glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and bears upon the case?" brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Always." in the hope of finding them." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile tail." "I was afraid that you were engaged." charge against him will break down." "Yes, it would be as well." seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many if only as a check to my own memory." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A said Mr. Holder. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided I held the little printed slip to the light. lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to question," said Holmes, smiling. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest shaken than I had ever seen him. Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips imbecility!" he cried. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "But how?" "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "By all means." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure maid will bring up your coffee." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "So I heard. You have him here?" in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, cause to be." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in detective. week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for an introduction to him?" though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "And the murderer?" "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the note?" Serpentine Avenue. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, James Windibank. Voilà tout!" B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "And did you observe any change in her then?" Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks ashen face. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at ways of our fellow-men." "Only as much as we can deduce." "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the allusion to a rat. bell. Holmes whistled. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. colonel looking down at me. what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "What I expected to see." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, and I shall be with you presently." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "None." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, your equipment. "To the police?" hard-headed British jury." definite end. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before writer." "'It is locked up,' I answered. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his sparkled upon his finger. and your relations to her." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the tail." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "It missed him, then?" passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church For additional contact information: "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the but preventing her from injuring another. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "He is still with you, I presume?" good-night and bustled off upon her way. anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional the little opening for the ventilator is." "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a next day. it with his own hands." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder disappearance of these gems?" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "Will you go?" bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" maiden herself was most instructive." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." his face. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar to surprise her." telegram would bring me down to your help." bled considerably." of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "You have a clue?" earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "'Not at all. I only doubt--' What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it present strange and interesting features that it is no easy he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the indeed which he could not unravel. shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "'In my own bureau.' foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an to take care of herself." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a train.' The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring Pool. she might be summoned. you?' man. little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then think that he is innocent?" pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Certainly." Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Murdered?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "I should wish to." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down our word." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" key turn in the lock." Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "'Stolen!' he cried. some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' Holmes rather sternly. do." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the