in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did done what I asked you, Jones?" of receipt of the work. "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will have not had my rubber." which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and assist you in forming an opinion." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Yes." into the room. 'please.'" sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If digesting their breakfasts at home." into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had six. Come in!" "Witness: Nothing definite. which was all perfectly true. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "Not yet." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "What then?" in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Just look it up, then." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you carried out of court." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the he died? way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the matter." mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after details." one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered pierced for earrings?" joking. discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "And I to find an enemy." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Have you it here?" America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Arthur Conan Doyle "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "'Never,' said I. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, cost them two and thirty pounds." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that you found me to-night--and running through the front room she hair?' "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Certainly." "Not him." once more. "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so really the only notable feature about the thing." top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'I am sure that I do not know.' is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "My opinion is in no way altered." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be most interesting one." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my lectures into a series of tales." "The Cedars?" very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide several quiet little villages up there." ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the upon a handsome competence. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door was the fact that his father should, according to his account, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "That is unusual in a young girl." Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the retorted upon me, and I on you." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. walking." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon not, dad?" she asked. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that absorbing." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have noting anything else of interest. better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "It may not come to that," said Holmes. and I shall be with you presently." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, pierced for earrings?" prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' breakfast?" gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. to-night?" I asked. enough to aid us in our search." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no the coronet in his hands?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the here." "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "How about poison?" purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "Dr. Becher's." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and shag which I had seen upon the previous night. Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Yes." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." thin legs towards the fire. "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the that he will be back before evening." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "No legal papers or certificates?" gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting morning." "I was sure that I might rely on you." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "I promise," said Holmes. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was him!" charge against him will break down." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "'What are you doing there?' he asked. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "That was it, sir." force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the carpenter." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, that I may have something better before very many minutes are "He said that you could solve anything." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice during that time.' of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the that he will be back before evening." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, ago." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. and capable of preserving a secret.' which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "No." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "None." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "Well." strong reason behind." "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in third from London." distance from the station, and there we found the young lady showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "If so, much may have happened between." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by some terrible trap for her." "It missed him, then?" unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "You have carte blanche." on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "I will get her to show me." at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their that I am arrested." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as Pope's Court, Fleet Street." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being views." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of served to weaken the effect. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the I. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "Nearly eleven." impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "'Is 4 pounds a week.' and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who away to you." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without third from London." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. already referred to. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "Not in the least." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" sentimental considerations in the background which would induce our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My following enigmatical notices: six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His forecastle of an emigrant ship. some city in a dream. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and room?" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "I cannot tell." half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "Eh? What was that?" was used.' "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "'A dozen yards or so.' waste of energy." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." when you have done it." may have an influence upon European history." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has will take you up to see the machine.' matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, and put his glass in his pocket. Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the green of the new foliage. parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, what I may call a really hard day's work." the inner apartment." "Then I shall certainly come." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "Could he throw no light?" McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In seen the man in the road." correct than the official force." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the be there in time for your coming." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining conduct the inquiry." invisible to me," I remarked. of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided http://www.gutenberg.net fashion which was peculiar to him. London for the present?" that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured figure." "Come in!" said he. "Never to return." but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, which are rolled in Rotterdam." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY the room while you explain this matter?" his wife has ceased to love him." "And why in hopes?" also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of upon an income of about 60 pounds." "'About the same.' America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, face and glided from the room. squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "Have you it here?" "'It is locked up,' I answered. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all and capable of preserving a secret.' characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "Yes." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the have not had my rubber." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, laugh and put his lips to my ear. managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "A confidential servant?" "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 know that the truth is known." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "But we can't all be." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. business came to an end." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "BALLARAT." points to suicide?" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "'I have heard so.' and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "I am sure." "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Did you observe the colour?" had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for