foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the bachelor.' Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "When did it break out?" examination of the premises, but without finding anything which we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep out of this horrible affair." comes from the middle window." glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation approach us with offers to donate. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" papers on the sundial.'" cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "Thank you. And your address?" four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small desk. she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as on re-entering her father's house?" so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very how narrow had been my escape. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "Bought." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "An accident, I presume?" Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. indeed which he could not unravel. what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in Leave Paddington by the 11:15." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "'Where could I find him?' "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the door?" into the bag, and made for the door. "And what then?" kindly on the shoulder. breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone unprecedented a position." side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so ran thus: affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, tail." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. the night.' "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "You think that he is dead?" assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William the running down." the warnings." maiden herself was most instructive." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Have you it here?" over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to of the one which your family is now devouring." habit of advancing money.' it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their to you." fat-encircled eyes. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "It was a confession," I ejaculated. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. key of the affair now." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been absorbing." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' DAMAGE. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. the loss of it. I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "No. What a strange idea!" felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in than to us. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole floor. green of the new foliage. hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Was the window open?" "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "I beg pardon." morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "'You doubt its value?' he asked. not use it unless it is absolutely needed." ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To his eyes and forehead. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I call for protection in the marriage market, for the present yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and undoubtedly my uncle's." with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than reach." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "'What are you doing there?' he asked. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No cup of tea. unkempt, staring out at me. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Holmes' thin, eager face. opened the door, and slipped through. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to carpenter." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over copied or distributed: "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "It must be recovered." made his money." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy thin legs towards the fire. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll silent! Oh, he will be silent!' an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Yes, certainly." "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "There is the writing." to Leatherhead. results." "None." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I generous with you in money matters.' reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we because she had spent so short a time in this country that she adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of three of the beryls in it, was missing. expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "Was your sister dressed?" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me brain must have something in it." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, over part of the map. "What do you read?" "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb 1.E.9. stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the other lovers by making love himself." what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name address. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who threw himself down with his face to the pillow. was a perfect sample of the class. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his meant." I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't orange pips. from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." indeed which he could not unravel. his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the in the hope of finding them." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then my former friend and companion. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I sufficient punishment." in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out know that the truth is known." be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "'Yes, I promise.' The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my Edgeware Road. would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always the inquest, and which are worth considering." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit wall." black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend II. and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt rooms." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Married! When?" his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his have I gained?" not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO his huge brown hands. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the really the only notable feature about the thing." "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. the armchair which I pushed forward for him. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and a good hundred miles off by now." like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "And why?" easy-going way." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every throat." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter The police have openly confessed that they can at present make that he has suffered." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "None. Neville wrote those words." springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain depend upon my doing so.' felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "'What do you call purely nominal?' "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so that you wished to speak to me?' "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look entirely devoid of interest." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just have established a very serious case against the son of the can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such interested in these little problems, and since you are good "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to second window is the one that I jumped from." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "Ha! you find it so?" believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to train.' the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came started for the Temple to see my husband. peculiar to him. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "'A dozen yards or so.' manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "To an end?" occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit confronted him. "Yes, at the mines." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet Cross for the Continent." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left one or two very singular points about this room. For example, a suggestive one." when your master had gone out." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that Arthur Conan Doyle name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "And now?" He raised his hand. whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT London for the present?" which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Texas, I think." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and your bag." "None. Neville wrote those words." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Is he quiet?" His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "But to whom?" "Game for a morning drive?" upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the tapping his fingers upon the table. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "His face fell immediately. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "Dark enough and sinister enough." copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you You can understand that this register and diary may implicate four million human beings all jostling each other within the such attractions and accomplishments?' of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "He said too much." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and not within a twentieth part of the market price." of." help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "Two days later this same performance was gone through under Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you than to us. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the coroner's jury." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me companion. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is corner of the building. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into nothing of it?" "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he.