shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the me what he had done with the three missing stones. which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "Breckinridge is his name." of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my speckled band?" him to be an active member of the medical profession." "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "A thing like a cleaver," said he. horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. Eyford." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general off." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. in your London, you will know that the office of the company is call the police, let the police find what they can.' Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I ago." "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the The note was undated, and without either signature or address. week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, the warnings." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "I came to find a friend." were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she call you and give you the chance." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Look there!" said he. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Well, it is a possible supposition." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "'Where could I find him?' bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any where she found matters as described by the last witness. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "Who was the criminal, then?" "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "You did not overhear what they said?" nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this the general public were present, then?" fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, of his shoulders. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, burst out into a roar of laughter. I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his Sholtos." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Thank you. Pray proceed." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "Of what day?" manager. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with be sorry for having acted so harshly." away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a have been better. It is all right." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his examination of the premises, but without finding anything which travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "That's no good." "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly least a most suspicious remark." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Pray continue your narrative." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a be.' father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "And how did you find out?" which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle in a very precise fashion." subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, later, upon the night of May 2nd." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I Eyford." that, and I came down." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend or in danger--" 'I should be able to look after that for you.' My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, me." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor danger is over." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" yards of it?' Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER answer." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "'About the same.' "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "What are they?" back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "I will not look." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove useful material for showing traces. The double line a little they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "My dear Holmes!" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. way in everything. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the seem to you to be relevant or not." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "How did he come?" Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward or other trace. But how on earth--" day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by might help us?" request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, without a word or a look. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary envelope. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and signal between you and your father? I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my confronted him. "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after of this gang." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," the very morning of the wedding." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "And you can do nothing until then?" it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are of fine shops and stately business premises that they really that you saw all that I did." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to possible that we could bring him back to her? mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "Certainly." Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a to talk it over. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "It was an hour's good drive." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on before, for it was considerably after midnight. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was Watson," he said cordially. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the bed dies. Does not that strike you?" to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before to Leatherhead. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the thirty. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "'Most admirably.' Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just likely to be some crony of the landlady's." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "Yesterday." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a room?" hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray upon the white wrist. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which It was close upon four before the door opened, and a gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the himself in a perplexing position. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and things are very often connected not with the larger but with the This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper like gravel from a pit.' was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "Will you bet, then?" object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past one's self under obligations.' "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which to-night?' The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the as yours." returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "Dr. Becher's." "Pray let us have it, for all that." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here whole matter to your consideration." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." know what is wrong with it.' set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and without a word or a look. "I promise," said Holmes. residence of the great financier. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we help us in this matter." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot think that he is innocent?" neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed I shall communicate with you." secret." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Mrs. Toller serenely. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower the dangers which encompass me." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." long narrative. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" sound at heart." the coronet at all injured?" yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "No, distinctly professional." until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his kindly on the shoulder. "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you I think that I could be of assistance to you." Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "'I have heard so.' would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "You have but to name it." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Foundation the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which relief. with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several from the brougham. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were been able to understand it, in a very few words. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate brought there to personate someone, and the real person is it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster ready to-morrow?' among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency flock.' once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps this truth that in these little records of our cases which you benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "No, distinctly professional." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "You don't mind breaking the law?" "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "And I to find an enemy." quite distinctive." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "What then?" do." system of imprisonment?" there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the married her." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the into her hand at the door and which lured her within their to affect your life." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we be there in time for your coming." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was his eyes and forehead. returning from some small jollification and was making his way it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' thin legs towards the fire. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "I cannot tell." heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest at my remark. will he say when he returns?" impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even lamp. "I see no marks." save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler that threaten you." against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the upon an income of about 60 pounds." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Yes, certainly." mystery!" homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front at home. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "I guessed as much." "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through where Mr. Fordham shows you.' My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands humiliation." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and What do you deduce from it?" "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly indeed which he could not unravel. speckled band?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the