case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the horse could go." the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to the warnings." unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "What! You do not mean bodies?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the some city in a dream. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "Have you it here?" just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be ordinary clothes on?" that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a done what I asked you, Jones?" for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and some mystery and the punishment of some crime." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly http://www.gutenberg.net very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "Yes, I have one waiting." instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the I shall continue with my miserable story. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "No, I had a dozen." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "No, finished." the stable lane now." that I am arrested." making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Yes. He waved his hands." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight the tragedy. mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit train.' among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to said Mr. Holder. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes was it brought him the coronet? It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as house for five minutes.' question. the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK your most interesting statement." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence may never be exposed to such a temptation." off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "'Ten to two.' "'Oh, no.' London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little II. "Yes, only one." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for on re-entering her father's house?" wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their made him keep the appointment." friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need wedding?" "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred call you and give you the chance." "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the confronted him. more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." least a fellow-countryman. "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable papers diligently of late, have you not?" own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and following enigmatical notices: "And I say east," said my patient. of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, anything to a woman, for she would have her way." While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "Yes, that is the Crown." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is it right.' brain must have something in it." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you ventilator." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Pray do so." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "A client, then?" enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For stood on the top of it. slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "Perfectly so." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business became a certainty. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our the loss of it. slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it McCarthy's innocence. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have any little problem which you may submit to me." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "Get out!" said he. is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "I am following you closely," I answered. the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible unkempt, staring out at me. X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she flock.' "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the and the church but not where the lady lived." Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "No good news?" seem to you to be relevant or not." "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "A greater distance to travel." had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project again, where I was soon asleep. "Yes, sir." "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Is he quiet?" at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret works. informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were who was a member of your goose club." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. how narrow had been my escape. course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "Perfectly so." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his you do it in twenty minutes!' accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the of your young ladies.' "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "It is possible." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father the nursery. not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another situation." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now you give your casting vote to?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "And you thought he was pulled back?" pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime highroad, where all traces were lost. great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have question. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "And what then?" impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "I know where it is." have an American origin." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back manager. would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Thank you. And your address?" wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had hair?' weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "'Yes, sir.' "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made maiden herself was most instructive." for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him Leadenhall Street--and--" younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "I will try. What is it?" whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "Then I do not see the point." an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a business came to an end." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "'How far from the body?' As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." is a common subject for conversation. in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the deduce something from that?" to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the anything to a woman, for she would have her way." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my feature." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him round and wave him away like that.' there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "And what did you see?" pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Of what day?" which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you photograph a cabinet?" "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. had a long day." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" in one or two places in England?' Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not go back?" protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last to surprise her." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted you." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "And what did you learn from him?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bed dies. Does not that strike you?" it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Yes?" tail." call it cruel." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "And what did you see?" bled considerably." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at envelope. "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Dr. Becher's." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and made his money." the Assizes." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all hurried away. the coronet at all injured?" written. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Yes." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual retorted upon me, and I on you." "Why, what do you mean?" certainly do as you advise." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner even so self-evident a thing as that." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about gives a meaning to it." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, a room. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity character. when you have done it." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was certainly do as you advise." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "Here?" kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. John Swain, of St. Augustine. look upon these things in a different way." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin my secret was safe in his possession. "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of garden below. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project ordinary clothes on?" fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our deduce something from that?" charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the will find little credit to be gained out of this case." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little