with some details as to your case." with frightened eyes at his accuser. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which morning." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. tell him that I know him to be innocent." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to more terrible than the truth. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers promised to bring home. has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to carpenter." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had knowledge of the world." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the before the coroner and the police-court." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "There are none." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, until night should bring an explanation. arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned him, that man would not have given me such complete information "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" galvanised. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the the south-west, I see." Sholtos." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of forehead. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Breckinridge is his name." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "About a month then." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "'Very good.' "I say it is." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "And Miss Sutherland?" way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "And is that all?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? nonsense.' tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the neither fascinating nor artistic." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport tell him that I know him to be innocent." occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler believe that I should never have any practice at all. "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with cause to be." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the girl said." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "I will not look." pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "I assure you that I am in your hands." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My used to be." animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "Well." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." intrusion of other matters." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to could gather together that I was able to avert another public Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The shall not find me ungrateful." "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight open." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence way in everything. up this clue while it is still hot." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout go back?" the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "Your presence might be invaluable." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "None." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She indiscretion." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been at home. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear system of imprisonment?" "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, heavily into it. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "'Ample.' outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "My own seal." an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather Holmes' face clouded over. "Yes." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." at home. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project woven round him. from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the occupations.' "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "I am sure." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window furiously. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a never to learn it at all." Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my it." "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter good-night and bustled off upon her way. home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or was feeling which was the fattest.' "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a chance." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "Ample." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "The murder was done with it." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "But not more so than I to find you." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "Yes, certainly." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all Sutherland. one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from yards of it?' 'I should be able to look after that for you.' friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this disappearance of these gems?" no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that ran thus: foot. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange as the one I chose?' little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. against a man in the prime of life?" the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." hopeless attempt at recovering them." there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set there in twenty minutes." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing noting anything else of interest. next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two Literary Archive Foundation with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better strength of mind to control. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "Quite so. She has her freedom." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that felt?" "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "He is still with you, I presume?" so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "But how could you guess what the motive was?" visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them money should be paid at once.' "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "But the mystery?" down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study noise which awoke you from your sleep?" began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open the Assizes." "'It is locked up,' I answered. "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" writing, and yet I know it well." wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's that there was nothing in it, after all." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed purpose equally well?" which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "Why? What do you mean?" he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since happened." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your at home. have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. indiscretion." "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when it means?" "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "'Yes, I promise.' "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "And the murderer?" collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "To an English lawyer named Norton." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "In heaven's name, what for?" a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "It goes to the housekeeper's room." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Perhaps we may make them less so." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was of his shoulders. promised to bring home. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "Yes." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed perplexity from it to my illustrious client. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched your sleep?' makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when call the police, let the police find what they can.' believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was roused himself from his reverie. get her out of the way." morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "'Tell me all about it,' said I. struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "And did you observe any change in her then?" which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "At the wedding breakfast." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he me upon any point which I do not make clear." he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "But I have heard all that you have heard." "My last client of the sort was a king." upon the sideboard." exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so secret." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to the morning and make my own way in the world.' cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" residence of the great financier. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Not I." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up the very morning of the wedding." "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "Will you bet, then?" wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things business." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences the devil!" is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and strength." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can when your master had gone out." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a his face which made him a very different person to the round, the stones. week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at entirely devoid of interest." "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "And from a noble client?" "So I have heard." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as corner of the building. continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his even so self-evident a thing as that." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see said he. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to to have been novel and of interest." business." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "Pray continue your narrative." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made lumber-room." easy-going way." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern could gather together that I was able to avert another public lips." or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure charged with?" hurried by. "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "Certainly." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so night.' said he.