his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. way in." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. green of the new foliage. sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' unkempt, staring out at me. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "Was the window open?" have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "But to whom?" and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a The telegram which we eventually received came late one night was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, and your relations to her." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "Who was the criminal, then?" "What will you say?" I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "You are hungry," I remarked. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "Not particularly." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and returned to France?" black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the gentleman's clothes. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "That sounds a little paradoxical." "A confidential servant?" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so best detective that ever lived. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Then I can wait in the next room." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me exactly what you advise." what is your own theory as to what took place?" you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his His smile broadened. own family. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" my friend's incisive reasoning. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "No legal papers or certificates?" the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. through." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." families. Now for the facts. "Has he come with you to-night?" "Precisely." 'I should be able to look after that for you.' which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the it right.' can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. promised to bring home. "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We room?" "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped golden eyeglasses. perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not information in his hands the value of which he did not himself There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." which are rolled in Rotterdam." took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her Lestrade of Scotland Yard." fuss that is made over them." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you but preventing her from injuring another. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Then I can wait in the next room." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still joking. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon how narrow had been my escape. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "Ample." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was present." was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Tired-looking or fresh?" "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "But we can't all be." Project Gutenberg-tm works. whole matter to your consideration." burst into a hearty fit of laughter. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "'And the work?' objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "The landlord of the Alpha." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a during which he might have communicated with his friend the intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "That also I could fathom." I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the in this note: suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "Seven!" I answered. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by man. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, head. So long, then!" "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make man. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked is now desirous of getting those letters back." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I you do it in twenty minutes!' where Mr. Fordham shows you.' helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, writing, and yet I know it well." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a and put his glass in his pocket. be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Has he come with you to-night?" beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for arrangements." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he Pope's Court. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook his grey eyes. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "What I expected to see." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit and your relations to her." province." "And now?" I asked. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Ample." "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "But not more so than I to find you." out of this horrible affair." you." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "Awake, Watson?" he asked. grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of were wasted." "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "My Mary? Impossible!" "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last breakfast?" you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "'Entirely.' There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried had no one to advise her at such a crisis." fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "'And what salary do you ask?' than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of make me his representative both with the servants and with the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "What shall I do?" Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his opened a pocket-book and took out a note. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. over part of the map. "What do you read?" France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "What! Had he lost his wife?" hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On minor matters until to-morrow." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my with some details as to your case." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual a monotonous occupation." them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could them?" open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "Yes, sir." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" enter Dr. Roylott's room." coat-tails." "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "Upon what point?" Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' washing it down with a long draught of water. locked." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that I am not easy in my mind about them." "'In my own bureau.' as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. interest. They are important, you understand, without being had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "That is also quite modern," said the lady. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know o'clock is it?" the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it Heh?' it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" signal between you and your father? bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "Ah, but I was recommended to you." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I fear not." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save disturbance in my wife." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." of Fenchurch Street." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "Yes." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their meant." chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar deduce something from that?" Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an you, my dear young lady?' him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, cheerful." "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it row." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "'What are you doing there?' he asked. doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has very old mansion. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "And Irene Adler?" "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so to-night's adventure." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "A client, then?" note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of the stable lane now." to-night?" I asked. look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "'Where to?' "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the empty. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "Will you go?" 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of was a loud and authoritative tap. on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we from the brougham. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the in your London, you will know that the office of the company is looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was