you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. someone who had been in Australia." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it you." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "We have tried and failed." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. that there was nothing in it, after all." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was of Fenchurch Street." "Then what has happened to him?" plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" that Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Pray do so." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William intrusion of other matters." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted detained." reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure better in every way that they should make their position a little "You are certainly joking, Holmes." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "It is true that I have been generally successful." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" voice. instincts rose up against that laugh. of Fenchurch Street." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been cup of tea. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You system of imprisonment?" said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "And what then?" her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "Not I." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, populous neighbourhood." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "You think that he is dead?" golden eyeglasses. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "Yes." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "He is dead," cried several voices. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "But to whom?" pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it impression behind it as though a window had gently closed his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "What can you not understand?" story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day My friend smiled. "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "Where, then?" strong and stiff." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "On the contrary, this is the right side." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made man. "And who is her maid?" "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. is," said he presently: but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. she has been waylaid. There has been no result." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up what these perils are?" the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "He is dead," cried several voices. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "The Cedars?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Then you may be so with me." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "'Entirely.' had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "What! a murderous attack?" and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing retorted upon me, and I on you." "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an American. Then who could this American be, and why should he that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the you want, then?' Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "Then you may entirely rely on me." dear old homesteads?" tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. memory. is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never which we had just quitted. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you trifles." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an the house with me." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." any more." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. to-night?' Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "Nor running a chance of arrest?" some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it said he. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in is entirely a question of barometric pressure." seem to you to be relevant or not." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a delirious. rose-bushes. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid affection." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his the stones. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once crime. poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for ill-usage at the hands of fortune. best detective that ever lived. And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her the very letters. But what is this written above them?' clanging. Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who mysterious end." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. could gather together that I was able to avert another public whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. the inquest, and which are worth considering." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical the so-precious time, but come!' felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, young Openshaw's." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into had died away into the silence from which it rose. A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you round with crates and massive boxes. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "It looks newer than the other things?" open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "The rest you will leave in our hands." existence." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow are, I think, all that we need." results." my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the the room while you explain this matter?" spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in and looked back. I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "And who is her maid?" "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was voice, changing her seat as requested. perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible his eyes and forehead. "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found For additional contact information: the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, retorted upon me, and I on you." McCarthy's innocence. trying to your nerves." shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was of them has the shutters up.' "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter fled together." ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. three fields round his house, and there he would take his business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. than was visible to me." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible was keenly on my guard against him. waste of energy." this Miss Turner." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "What?" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an once more. "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their exactly what you advise." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "What do you make of that, Watson?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the congratulate you again." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." money should be paid at once.' yards of it?' our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "And you don't know his address?" "Certainly." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "Only as much as we can deduce." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "You horrify me!" shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. sparkled upon his finger. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his here." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he in the dead of the night?' a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, other, as fresh and trim as possible. to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as strode off upon his way. down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until and looked back. leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One if she died from some sudden fright." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "I don't believe it." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man events than those which have happened in my own family." possible that we could bring him back to her? letters?" I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the not fit the lock." astonishment. because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are Serpentine Avenue. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "What have you to say now?" "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not cigar and let me expound." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, http://www.gutenberg.net order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "What! a murderous attack?" to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. interested in these little problems, and since you are good she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Not him." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot detective. making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." forecastle of an emigrant ship. back alive. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. problems help me to do so." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son 1.E.9. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss success. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a detective. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining This is what he says: wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the matters immensely." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from are, and they are waiting for us." shall use the carriage to-night." "I think that it is very probable." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said hopeless attempt at recovering them." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without relief. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "One of the highest in England." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her least a most suspicious remark." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, she might be summoned. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "He slept on the premises." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "'Yes, I promise.' so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You never to learn it at all." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two fat-encircled eyes. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting wall." "ARAT," I read. "Yes, the wine-cellar." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our one's self under obligations.' "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "'Quite sure, dad.'