Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the upon an income of about 60 pounds." "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as and have this put in the evening papers." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "Yes?" succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he strength in the others." unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "And you don't know his address?" intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "I guessed as much." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in them?" when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & Eyford." confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you my secret was safe in his possession. been." brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "The landlord of the Alpha." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Nor running a chance of arrest?" of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "None. Neville wrote those words." him to be an active member of the medical profession." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear me where it went to?" obstinate." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom lumber-room." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. better grown goose." never came back." into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said threw himself down with his face to the pillow. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "The decline of his fortunes, then?" London for the present?" tell me that you intended to go into harness." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "And I say east," said my patient. should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was have got?" short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "And it is--" Holmes rather sternly. "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project arms and began to sob in a high treble key. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no plantation.' never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps some place of shelter and let the county police know what has nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "I am all attention, madam." went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "And did you observe any change in her then?" light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a straighten it?" frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, papers on the sundial.'" to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "Whose house is it?" should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security point in the dark hollow of his hand. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" intrusion of other matters." Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we too. said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just me. You must get home instantly and act." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "I see many objections to any such theory." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was success. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the waste of energy." "At what time?" "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want back into the street. coroner's jury." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of face and glided from the room. after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I here." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "We have tried and failed." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "May I see it?" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. public press." returning from some small jollification and was making his way handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to good-night and bustled off upon her way. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these likely to be some crony of the landlady's." always that they were such commands as a lady might with always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "And your mother is alive?" glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see present." security.' "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I hardly wander." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager the stable lane now." least a fellow-countryman. shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" them, and came down just as you departed. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was followed. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It events, Mr. Windibank!" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the has little to do with my story." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "You did not overhear what they said?" harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be plantation.' "By train from Waterloo." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to what do you think they found in the pockets?" and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He in his hands." mystery!" and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his orange pips. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" and all of them with the keenest interest. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "Of Friday, June 19th." them, and came down just as you departed. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "Of what?" state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took garden below. estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "Ah!" attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But them?" with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the know all about it," he snarled. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" appeal." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were to miss it." but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, open." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "She told me to ask you." the loss of it. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, weighed down with some great anxiety. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked were unconscious?" just ask you whether you had heard it.' "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "'What do you call purely nominal?' could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a business matters.' "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, will take you up to see the machine.' sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced appeal." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Never." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call not personally threatened." "'I am sure if I had known--' smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, call it cruel." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "And how?" near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." papers diligently of late, have you not?" But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your was the fact that his father should, according to his account, trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "You know me, then?" however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong correct than the official force." shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." the coronet in his hand?" corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "Never." thought that she would have been so carried away." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "That sounds a little paradoxical." could go. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "I say it is." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Pray be precise as to details," said he. incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. matter over." "But of what society?" He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been appeared upon the scene." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "'And the work?' copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should in a friendly supper." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "I know where it is." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is views." tell me that you intended to go into harness." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "What then?" the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open corner of the building. "Who by?" "I am all attention, madam." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "At the wedding breakfast." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when were unconscious?" he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "'Certainly not.' fashion which was peculiar to him. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Certainly." "'Oh, no.' "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" o'clock is it?" of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and the inner apartment." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "I do." to a more successful conclusion." sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you instincts rose up against that laugh. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. pictures, libraries, or plate. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of him nearly every evening." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a companion quietly. must compliment you." forebodings. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), to that open window." can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. know what is wrong with it.' governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was bird I ate is country bred." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove and effective." "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the one else, I think." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were tell them apart.' sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Have you it here?" "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "'I have already given you my word.' all that?" you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. British peeress.'" "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had http://gutenberg.net/license). myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is indiscretion." "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should of Mr. Rucastle's." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "None." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his must be when I saw the door open.' Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will placed his cuttings. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's upon an income of about 60 pounds." fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to out." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a astonishment. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my