bedroom door." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took business at Coburg Square is serious." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "And how in the world did you find them?" mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who it. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "Was there a secret marriage?" him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "Will you bet, then?" he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "It was a confession," I ejaculated. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else following enigmatical notices: it right.' "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new meanly of me." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked pity, because in other respects you would really have done very they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number and prosperity to your house. Good-night." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still I took the paper from him and read as follows: steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you examine." more solid." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the matter over." stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "And what then?" at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now in my life." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "How did you trace it, then?" down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but them?" already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until You want to know what became of those geese?" rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "Yes." "How are you getting on?" John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every into the room. broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, the one as in the other." I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of of a light. having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked death." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. take the flies, but not before." "You are all wrong." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent where she found matters as described by the last witness. appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "In which, sir?" there." away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Pool. "And you thought he was pulled back?" chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "Witness: Nothing definite. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "Certainly, madam." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a silent! Oh, he will be silent!' the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." were new raised from a basin. "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "Yes, but only for you and me." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "I should wish to." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the DISSOLVED. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off shall not find me ungrateful." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "No sign of it?" and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where morning." very morning of my second wedding." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "And what did you learn from him?" Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and companion. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This pound a week." hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his peculiar to him. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could me. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a will he say when he returns?" and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so some terrible trap for her." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "But what will you do?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall letters?" Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "'Ten to two.' fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "And Irene Adler?" for its centre. the south-west, I see." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "What is it?" Count Von Kramm." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your voice, changing her seat as requested. yet." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place annoyance, but no jest. appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." started for the Temple to see my husband. chill to my heart. eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in conclusions. this Miss Turner." it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. hand, madam?" never will be, entirely cleared up. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, nothing of it?" "Was there a secret marriage?" their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "'Yes.' "What I expected to see." acquaintance?" "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said photograph?" what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there strange features which were associated with the two crimes which at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after from the brougham. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would will not take me long to tell. building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from keep the flames under. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "This photograph!" "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' London for the present?" in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "No. His orders were to stay in the house." triumphant cloud from his cigarette. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if few hundred pounds.' "No. What a strange idea!" maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "A thing like a cleaver," said he. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "But your client--" said he. centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "What do you mean?" middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the at once, for I have only half an hour." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave Project Gutenberg-tm works. there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger throat." "I have seen the police." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house fat-encircled eyes. once more on the important position which you have been fortunate As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took it." great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "Will you go?" It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "'Ample.' prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my easy-going way." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My hand, madam?" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "And why?" "Very. But will he see it?" "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are and no precautions can guard against." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "I will, Miss Turner." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Seven!" I answered. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune any little problem which you may submit to me." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been deduce something from that?" "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and were new raised from a basin. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did a little more before I quite committed myself. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card man. I know him from the photograph." "Then, how do you know?" what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the tension within him. "Do you know him?" the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do His name is Francis Prosper." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom examine." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing companion. "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little at my remark. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "So I heard. You have him here?" "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark young Openshaw's." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." to me. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to his grey eyes. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and least a fellow-countryman. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "The decline of his fortunes, then?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so residence of the great financier. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the outside." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "'Never.' are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "Entirely." believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest was used.' Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "But how will you look?" written, and locked the door of the office after me. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "By no means." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "He might." there is a decided draught." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring not personally threatened." forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are Street. client, rising. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "Quite so." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "'Is 4 pounds a week.' one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that papers diligently of late, have you not?" twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would lips." standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch populous neighbourhood." weapon." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." the warnings." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the a little more before I quite committed myself. confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came my former friend and companion. affair. set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an could not account in any way for the presence of the missing if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "And why in hopes?" the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my posted to-day." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass DISSOLVED. tear off another piece?' "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with the King without delay." "His face fell immediately. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Well?" misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless some mystery and the punishment of some crime." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her not come at once?" LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "But who is he?" all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something strength of mind to control. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady Holmes rather sternly. "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." business?" Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say written. "Certainly." Pope's Court. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal."