it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "His face fell immediately. "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would fait accompli?" sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "We must have a cab." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just which was all perfectly true. stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank exactly what you advise." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of "Here?" girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." see me here to avoid scandal." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be was it brought him the coronet? light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That away to you." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the will he say when he returns?" submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the your troubles." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "No." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him bachelor.' There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and October 9, 1890. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "I saw her in conversation with her maid." the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "No, I think that I'll take it." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "My dear Holmes!" story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "You'll never persuade me to believe that." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a away to you." train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The straighten it?" ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "To the police?" "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "How often?" "Where, indeed?" "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all acted in my house last night?" sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." strength in the others." passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods from you?" frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "Did he not advertise?" "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a may have an influence upon European history." would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "And how in the world did you find them?" fear." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." the warnings." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of respectable self." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the attention." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "You are certainly joking, Holmes." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my made him keep the appointment." for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It remarked. "I have seen the police." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, sneer upon his pale face. "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My skylight. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the chamber." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might in the hope of finding them." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "Yes, there are nearly always some there." paper in the air. of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a tell them apart.' shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love at once, for I have only half an hour." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "Quite so." "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his observed. hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered do you make of it all?" "The King of Scandinavia." or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed himself to tell his story. "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "'What would be the hours?' I asked. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual upon the shelf for the interim." within hail.' "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the friends, not even his own brother. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before bill, which interests me deeply." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "But what harm can there be in that?" head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since than was visible to me." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "In answer to an advertisement." "It is true that I have been generally successful." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be and that he would see to anything that turned up. my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from eat it." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "I know where it is." call the police, let the police find what they can.' wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "But how?" paper in the air. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a night.' said he. compunction about shooting them down." is so. I know all about McCarthy." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." felt the room to be a little close.' "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few kind enough to tell me what I should do." "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "We were both in the photograph." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story I have it here in my museum." need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to neither fascinating nor artistic." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would may never be exposed to such a temptation." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, important." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "No, but the enclosure is." "And that is--" written. "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Really! You surprise me." souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "VIOLET HUNTER." to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' morning." appeared upon the scene." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "Then, as to money?" "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "'Oh, no.' stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years fishes. "What steps will you take?" I asked. down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell placed his cuttings. gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "'Certainly,' I answered. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a touch that coronet?' III. said I. to affect your life." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "Thank you. Pray proceed." "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "'A dozen yards or so.' by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further if she died from some sudden fright." of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric gigantic client. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's stalked out of the room. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to the running down." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the drawing your inferences." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds redistribution. "You are hungry," I remarked. dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and friends, not even his own brother. "Yes, I have one waiting." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which noting anything else of interest. of receipt of the work. "Well?" news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "But how?" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from a very grave face. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Do you go out much in society?" I nodded to show that I had heard. not, dad?" she asked. villagers almost as much as their master. satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." kindly on the shoulder. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was prove to be little relation between the different incidents of Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since during which he might have communicated with his friend the delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I the iron safe, which he closed upon it. one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." and inquire as to the address." it right.' if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the and prosperity to your house. Good-night." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did test if we have an answer to our advertisement." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "'Where could I find him?' explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "Game for a morning drive?" taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "The murder was done with it." "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a at home. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can Mary, has deserted me." certainly not very gracious." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Ample." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "And Miss Sutherland?" sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "Where is it, then?" later, upon the night of May 2nd." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a bearing upon the case." small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I it? Did I buy the geese off you?" wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and papers." grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "Dirty?" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted once more for Briony Lodge. "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "What will you do, then?" however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible the armchair which I pushed forward for him. and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Ha! you find it so?" "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Holmes, the busybody!" which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each extra couple of hundred would have been very handy.