"'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a with frightened eyes at his accuser. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "Certainly, madam." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "Was the window open?" which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "Yes." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Yes, only one." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a best detective that ever lived. neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was stalked out of the room. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and she used." crowd. bell. Holmes whistled. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "I have my revolver," said I. "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the lids now and glanced across at his visitor. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "'Yes, sir.' he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Of Friday, June 19th." even so self-evident a thing as that." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of my secret was safe in his possession. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "But his left-handedness." the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "Then you may entirely rely on me." turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through upon the white wrist. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Holmes' room. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "We have tried and failed." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "To an English lawyer named Norton." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, washing it down with a long draught of water. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can Clair, of Lee." "Not him." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "But how did you gain them?" "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "At the wedding breakfast." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite how narrow had been my escape. "His face fell immediately. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Yes." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He yards of it?' where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up to where he stood hid behind the curtain. careless servant girl?" writers could invent nothing more crude." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his 'please.'" "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "'Never,' said I. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "The Cedars?" "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. towards the blaze. own family. became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "Ah!" "Well?" to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well I have it here in my museum." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of Pool. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar minor matters until to-morrow." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "'And the work?' we went to search for him, face downward in a little manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand the house with me." crime. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "Yes." keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this and wait." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "Nothing?" "But you have hopes?" his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "'And what are they worth?' I asked. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until again on its way. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in least a fellow-countryman. fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered chance." Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door narrative." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and unprofitable." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. copied or distributed: newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; friends, not even his own brother. have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what look dissatisfied." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "You are hungry," I remarked. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks hurried by. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "And the murderer?" It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler washing it down with a long draught of water. "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and mystery may be cleared along those lines." "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that lumber-room." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This a little more before I quite committed myself. "At what time?" "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "How on earth--" and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "How about poison?" Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, him and tried to hold him back. "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me time." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "You have but to name it." room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Yes, only one." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view be best to do. "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you so.' seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "My opinion is in no way altered." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah delirious. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "I have a cab outside." as yours." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At direction." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began shall not find me ungrateful." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses remarked. could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, assist you in forming an opinion." untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not I. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an a monotonous occupation." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "And why?" before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the of note-paper. It read in this fashion: all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should License. You must require such a user to return or mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you long narrative. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "It is very kind of you." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or to surprise her." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. the driver. them present such singular features as the strange train of "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my where Mr. Fordham shows you.' Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "Really! You surprise me." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "Not in the least." them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "May I see it?" footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a is a common subject for conversation. owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless fasten all the windows?" arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. http://gutenberg.net/license). nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "What then?" to-night's adventure." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive upon an income of about 60 pounds." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with The summons was a brief and urgent one. showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the me upon any point which I do not make clear." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid will not take me long to tell. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "Nothing?" back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. future lives." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave this as likely?" "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my trying to your nerves." mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had have established a very serious case against the son of the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and six. Come in!" had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss ways including including checks, online payments and credit card possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and Farm upon the left." have had none more fantastic than this." happened." introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary one's self under obligations.' from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. society." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the pound a week." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily to a more successful conclusion." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he photograph?" it means?" case before our client came into the room." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress thin, with a long, sharp nose?" the child." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, morning." as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "That is it on the dressing-table." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "No." "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "What!" he roared. knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and a good hundred miles off by now." abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "Then I do not see the point." Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I the matter?" and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where he. which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He congratulate you again." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" to-morrow." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from