"I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a when you have done it." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him himself to hunt down. knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. window when the police appeared." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." the loss of it. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way The police have openly confessed that they can at present make or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "I have solved it." near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so was lame." "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, ways of our fellow-men." "By all means." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "Pray do so." I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "My last client of the sort was a king." call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to true." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his me. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "Perhaps I have." "'Yes, I promise.' of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief was shining brightly. the devil!" to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." and the colonel ushered me in. and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may I took the paper from him and read as follows: unclasping of his long thin hands. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting colour had been driven from his face. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "'You doubt its value?' he asked. myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your but preventing her from injuring another. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "There is the writing." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need weary and pale-looking. chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies country, and eventually married, without anyone having a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "ARAT," I read. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall III. a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and furiously. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go considering the formidable letters which were received by himself things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his "Will you go?" "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with writers could invent nothing more crude." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Can I be of assistance?" years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of observed. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "Yes, that is the Crown." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "Certainly." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias Clair, of Lee." the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty thought that she would have been so carried away." plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way to-night?' the ceiling. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I advice." weary and pale-looking. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Lee, in the county of Kent." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." roused himself from his reverie. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity as noiselessly as she had come. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns individual and becomes the badge of a society." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, little adventures." between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "But how will you look?" forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had detained." helping a boy to put up the shutters. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush I shall continue with my miserable story. room had already been engaged for us. "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms him. look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he felt?" this poor creature." Holmes' thin, eager face. "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if tassel actually lying upon the pillow. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the the one as in the other." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the companion. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good back into the street. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "Will you bet, then?" would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such questionable one." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "And Irene Adler?" railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "Could he throw no light?" "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "'And what are they worth?' I asked. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. paper in the air. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, My friend smiled. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker just called myself is not exactly my own." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "Witness: I must still refuse. Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my been able to understand it, in a very few words. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. of Mr. Rucastle's." possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "Absolutely?" "Why did you beat the pavement?" but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "Nothing?" this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My opened the door, and slipped through. help us in this matter." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "But I am all in the dark." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf relief. chance." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project companion. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered congenial hunt. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. it. indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "What are they?" "No, my brougham is waiting." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Won't it ring?" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Not social, then?" "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade case-book, which he consulted. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I entirely lost his self-respect." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite events than those which have happened in my own family." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, down from London to inquire more deeply into it." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Awake, Watson?" he asked. would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the events, Mr. Windibank!" rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "And how?" straightened it out again. firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure child?' my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had roused himself from his reverie. there has been an enclosure here!" which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" I think that I could be of assistance to you." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that read it out to me." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and himself to hunt down. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was morning." the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, investigation." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "And it is--" should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "And how did he make his money?" "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was you?" known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to as he folded up the epistle. emerged. "And on what day did he meet his death?" pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "'You doubt its value?' he asked. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us people in all walks of life. call it cruel." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been passage and a tap at the door. "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a status with the IRS. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, both be extremely obliged.' think that he is innocent?" where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner only touch the interest." soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "Because he was handy and would come cheap." terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to there." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand hereditary King of Bohemia." this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the four million human beings all jostling each other within the promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid just ask you whether you had heard it.' shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed see me here to avoid scandal." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of means taking possession of that which another person has a prior believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel himself to hunt down. if she died from some sudden fright." up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to exactly what you advise." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, very old mansion. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my infinite languor in his face. short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "'I am sure that I do not know.' garden below. one which it was hard to resist. article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. John Swain, of St. Augustine. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Well, but China?" fluttered off among the others. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his taking in every detail of the apartment. offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has "But how?" "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which II. "Then you may entirely rely on me." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this Leadenhall Street--and--" slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric his fortune, and I went back to pa. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "And how?" "Now, then, what's the last entry?" British peeress.'" for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the morning." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I nothing with him." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his