"'A dozen yards or so.' 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" tell them apart.' utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Now, then, what's the last entry?" for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't prepare for the new role I have to play." broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. opened the door, and slipped through. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do side. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "It missed him, then?" paper in the air. 11:15.' have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "I am still in the dark." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "He might." look dissatisfied." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "The murder was done with it." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, new acquaintance to Baker Street. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which Holmes. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." walking." just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural never to learn it at all." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in against a man in the prime of life?" and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. lips." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "But you were on a friendly footing?" corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "I should be immensely obliged to you." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, where she found matters as described by the last witness. "What is it, then--a fire?" lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of that before taking the final step I should like to submit the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "I never have." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, colour had been driven from his face. branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' You want to know what became of those geese?" acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest was used.' association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "How did he come?" "And what then?" time." "'Ten to two.' "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, dear old homesteads?" where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' forbidden door. violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used wedding?" refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs the room while you explain this matter?" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that mysterious business." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with retorted upon me, and I on you." Sutherland. happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and since then to throw any light upon what became of him." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in closely." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I voice. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the guilty parties." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might she to prove their authenticity?" awkward doing business with an alias." plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Stoke Moran." advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something to arrive at through this?" "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "Was she in good spirits?" was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull unclasping of his long thin hands. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to the driver. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to said he at last. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a and inquire as to the address." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "Do you know him?" or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "Yes." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is Holmes' face clouded over. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "How long did she speak to this Alice?" nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you to arrive at through this?" "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "You think that he is dead?" she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection out." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an gigantic client. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "There is the writing." Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "That was it, sir." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and invisible to me," I remarked. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." ashen face. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save prepare for the new role I have to play." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and waste of energy." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "None." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set with some details as to your case." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "You are hungry," I remarked. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "Her father is very rich?" straighten it?" tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. sake, don't!" ashen face. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Yes, I have one waiting." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told it. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he the morning and make my own way in the world.' *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "Look there!" said he. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "So I heard. You have him here?" He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture everything which you would wish to know." no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "I have solved it." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have not interfere, come what may. You understand?" own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can Arthur Conan Doyle new acquaintance to Baker Street. walking." "Of what?" yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." he died? souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind throat." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; despair." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "She told me to ask you." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of on re-entering her father's house?" Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was strong reason behind." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "And the cigar-holder?" pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself me have 200 pounds?' He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the if she died from some sudden fright." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had had picked up in the wood. tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the written, and locked the door of the office after me. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of without a word or a look. "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A death." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "You horrify me." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then examine." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "Because he was handy and would come cheap." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. hand, madam?" desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was status with the IRS. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the may have an influence upon European history." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their strong reason behind." wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own directly by questioning you." remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "Yes, from Horsham." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "No." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was Have you good authority for what you say?" there." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to better in every way that they should make their position a little "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "'About the same.' not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "Have you it here?" his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "You horrify me!" eavesdroppers?' in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "Come in!" said he. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the way: twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "Yes, there are nearly always some there." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my guilty one." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand case before our client came into the room." of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Not him." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "But he might be a bachelor." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" sooner or later she must fall a victim. and all of them with the keenest interest. from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two ran thus: first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There the driver. delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Seven!" I answered. Munro.' least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the appeared upon the scene." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "'Quite sure, dad.' but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he to where he stood hid behind the curtain. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue someone who had been in Australia." for securing the situation." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some read over the extraordinary announcement. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began said he. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly was keenly on my guard against him. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly completely overtopped every other consideration that we both time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned long narrative. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Here?" "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "That is possible." What do you deduce from it?" "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I learned something! Where are the gems?" Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used,