The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger beg that you will break it off." Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little shoulder. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned father's place of business?" Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "'And what are they worth?' I asked. States. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not the driver. "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming you." morning." "May I see it?" caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the James Windibank. Voilà tout!" its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed for and were ordered to this address. the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "No, but the enclosure is." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, answer." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "I don't say that. Perhaps." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen events, Mr. Windibank!" shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have Surrey." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an round and wave him away like that.' became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." the coronet at all injured?" there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "Absolutely none." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "It is true that I have been generally successful." years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "That you are never beaten." last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "But you can know nothing of this?" test if we have an answer to our advertisement." nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "And is that all?" "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the I have it here in my museum." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out of the efforts of the United States government and of the better four million human beings all jostling each other within the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for you want, then?' and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she the house with me." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have or other trace. But how on earth--" glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a and all of them with the keenest interest. we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. green of the new foliage. congratulate you again." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. have accepted such a situation. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "May I see it?" and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had for and were ordered to this address. was already answered. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or in this note: some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "9th. McCauley cleared. twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "'Is 4 pounds a week.' on in his house." that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and License. You must require such a user to return or makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, interested in these little problems, and since you are good "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we some terrible trap for her." professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed them present such singular features as the strange train of Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Yes, sir." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "Nearly eleven." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is shall not find me ungrateful." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such opportunities to fix the problem. "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "Proceed, then." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is morning." where she found matters as described by the last witness. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong once more to my work. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "It is to him that this trophy belongs." orange pips. Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary this as likely?" which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far investigation." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of furiously. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. child?' purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the his wife has ceased to love him." spare." that he will be back before evening." uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of yards of it?' "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "My own seal." from the brougham. "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you and looked back. them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "Yes, it would be as well." stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness swore that no one else had been in the front room during the river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it waste of energy." the one as in the other." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "And it is--" "The gentleman I describe." gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "To the police?" advice." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "By no means." my special province." Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook assist you in forming an opinion." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in information in his hands the value of which he did not himself most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "My opinion is in no way altered." of Fenchurch Street." strength in the others." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "How often?" returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "And you don't know his address?" man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at second window is the one that I jumped from." been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "My dear Holmes!" green of the new foliage. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual of the efforts of the United States government and of the better use an arc-and-compass breastpin." untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. over here." "It must be recovered." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my your only hope of safety." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this in a friendly supper." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which money should be paid at once.' work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no that doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "What office?" in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have presume?" "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless interests were the same as his." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "No, I had a dozen." some terrible trap for her." furiously. round with crates and massive boxes. we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Proceed, then." "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. definite end. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "It is a murder, then?" "On your arm?" reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and pierced for earrings?" "Ten will be early enough." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, other means.' a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the address. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between the Friday. Was it to be in church?" night.' said he. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the as noiselessly as she had come. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to question you as to those details which seem to me to be most secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "What will you say?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to noise which awoke you from your sleep?" labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little It was close upon four before the door opened, and a papers on the sundial.'" wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, look upon these things in a different way." "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A bird of prey. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on least a most suspicious remark." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to certainly not very gracious." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "I know where it is." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, your equipment. "On the contrary, this is the right side." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "Yes, they were peculiar boots." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "But your client--" lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." whatever might befall. much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "Thank you. Pray proceed." "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or indeed which he could not unravel. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger confronted him. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "Yes." asked. what do you think they found in the pockets?" "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after to talk it over. young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that is so. I know all about McCarthy." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "By all means." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible of Mr. Rucastle's." caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my chambers. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, Surrey." part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the The King stared at him in amazement. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" of it with the greatest attention. shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing me upon any point which I do not make clear." and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "How often?" analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "No, my brougham is waiting." means taking possession of that which another person has a prior everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of considering the formidable letters which were received by himself I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed place no limit on the sum I may draw." "Whose house is it?" of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, occupations.' chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, have had none more fantastic than this." overpowering excitement and concern. forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. gbnewby@pglaf.org affair. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a business matters.' "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "He slept on the premises." "You horrify me." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the such attractions and accomplishments?' nights." this Miss Turner." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the to a more successful conclusion." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "'No, I know no one in these parts.' building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and