the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was villagers almost as much as their master. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "Yes." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He disturbance in my wife." "Holmes, the busybody!" "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some behind me. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "What then?" The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Yes." wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the III. pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed round and wave him away like that.' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," a few minutes he said that it would be all right. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "That is also quite modern," said the lady. playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "You were travelling in the States?" came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are furiously. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, done what I asked you, Jones?" on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss fluttered off among the others. bird of prey. companion. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "And why?" "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "Won't it ring?" "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and whereabouts. friends, not even his own brother. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." I shall communicate with you." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." about here speaks of his kindness to him." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place present strange and interesting features that it is no easy distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "Here?" Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the enter Dr. Roylott's room." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "Not I." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and from you?" finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to it." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "My photograph." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "And I say east," said my patient. play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "You think so, too?" tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other note?" passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very flock.' red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a such attractions and accomplishments?' seem to you to be relevant or not." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird our word." I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week lamp in his hand. "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and following enigmatical notices: pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "I guessed as much." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able said he, "my real name is James Ryder." legal crime." "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." chemical work which was so dear to him. would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "But he might be a bachelor." "Whose house is it?" pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up them present such singular features as the strange train of blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as an introduction to him?" and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "The King of Scandinavia." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Then he might have called to you?" events, Mr. Windibank!" when your master had gone out." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "'As governess?' her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and in darkness. pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it his cane at the bell-pull. "What!" he roared. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn front of me. low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have brought there to personate someone, and the real person is the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could more terrible than the truth. I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold golden eyeglasses. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "By train from Waterloo." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in companion quietly. "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, and prosperity to your house. Good-night." enter Dr. Roylott's room." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "I fear not." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "Well." "Ah!" sofa. This way, please!" accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Never to return." Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? strength in the others." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The money should be paid at once.' nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few that before taking the final step I should like to submit the towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "I saw her in conversation with her maid." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." plantation.' myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "The murder was done with it." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the spare." to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten to-night's adventure." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might in one or two places in England?' away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "At the wedding breakfast." tear off another piece?' "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "We must sit without light. He would see it through the lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in joking. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall would then never go into court at all." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have answer." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who long narrative. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. I shall continue with my miserable story. to a more successful conclusion." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "I came to find a friend." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. cigars in their mouths. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "To an end?" which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "But it has twice been burgled." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded point in the dark hollow of his hand. "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you answered with a sidelong glance. address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "The King of Scandinavia." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "How are you getting on?" washing it down with a long draught of water. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days forehead. "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his delighted to hear it," he said. "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "Then you may entirely rely on me." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." should be taken.' open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account definite end. two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon call the police, let the police find what they can.' lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the indiscretion." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the Again Holmes raved in the air. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and all-comprehensive glances. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "'Then let me do so?' dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and said I. he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "I have solved it." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a residence of the great financier. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell my friend's incisive reasoning. to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in said he at last. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to from you?" The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "No." "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Was he the only applicant?" grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted been with you?" in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between Foundation "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My the one as in the other." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who strength in the others." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief were wasted." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It business?" giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "Then I shall certainly come." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue there was no need for father to know." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Where, then, is my wife?" "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four second window is the one that I jumped from." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the Countess of Morcar's?" spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "Nothing." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "What?" railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I bore every mark of being an average commonplace British in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in green of the new foliage. "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "I am about to be married." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have introspective fashion. been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Never." hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to details." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it awaited us upon the table. number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "It is possible." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained weary and pale-looking. I took the paper from him and read as follows: they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, man. I know him from the photograph." scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, really the only notable feature about the thing." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "I say it is." the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be said I. disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "And why?" myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There present." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Pray continue your narrative." His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "In what way?" asked Holmes. dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be pound a week." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is to Leatherhead. the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Very well, sir. And this stone?" investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a