Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while this man was intellectual?" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon signal between you and your father? "By no means." her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "I promise," said Holmes. you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "What do you mean?" although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town very old mansion. have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my be sorry for having acted so harshly." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of open." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that that I may have something better before very many minutes are For additional contact information: black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "In what way?" asked Holmes. Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "Pray let us have it, for all that." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in excitement. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. legal crime." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of tapping his fingers upon the table. "I know where it is." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the nonsense.' "Was she in good spirits?" "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest arrangements." that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "'It is locked up,' I answered. really the only notable feature about the thing." and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the was once confined in the cab my mission was practically should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet girl said." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now bonnet, and went out." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "'Which dealer's?' by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Your French gold?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will you give your casting vote to?" his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated on re-entering her father's house?" future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "Breckinridge is his name." station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took money should be paid at once.' the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I night.' said he. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to client, rising. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but and I shall be with you presently." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away envelope. find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, only touch the interest." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Thank you. Pray proceed." your bag." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "It is very clear." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of see a sister of mine apply for." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was and put his glass in his pocket. bedroom door." laugh and put his lips to my ear. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. the side-table." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted direction." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge in a very precise fashion." "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in McCarthy's innocence. "It was." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," if she died from some sudden fright." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new one of the states of the Union." here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is during that time.' one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I morning." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Yes, but only for you and me." now. It seems that there had been some informality about their possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." carpenter." "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "Your French gold?" where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. only touch the interest." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which the matter." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet hour." "Not particularly." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "It is to him that this trophy belongs." was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had my friend's incisive reasoning. "He said too much." "Why, what do you mean?" forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were quick march!" out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." she used." "No, my brougham is waiting." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle begin with, and I had not got mine yet." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "'Oh, no.' that I can to serve you." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without ordinary clothes on?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Then I do not see the point." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded out of this horrible affair." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into wife's character?" constraint." "They are typewritten," I remarked. adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was someone who had been in Australia." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as been shamefully used." dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "But what harm can there be in that?" as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see 'I should be able to look after that for you.' admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings new acquaintance to Baker Street. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob when your master had gone out." been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "Imitated." a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in at home. even so self-evident a thing as that." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "And you don't know his address?" could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "What then?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny key of the affair now." shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the call it cruel." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of detained." the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." official police." "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' Project Gutenberg-tm works. results." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. the salesman. "A thing like a cleaver," said he. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly attention." good for you to do.' "How did you deduce the select?" the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "By train from Waterloo." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part The telegram which we eventually received came late one night Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were I nodded again. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would 'please.'" glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All information in his hands the value of which he did not himself my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what and shall probably return to London by the evening train." I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings you." Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at beyond words. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, his face. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." any." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any to arrive at through this?" safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from locked." spark where all is dark to me." detective. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it dear old homesteads?" "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "But she could not love him." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as investigation." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned and shall probably return to London by the evening train." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a bonnet, and went out." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "How often?" fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my simple cases which are so extremely difficult." cup of tea. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was married her." "Pray do so." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "What have you to say now?" had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "No?" "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. presume?" "No. His orders were to stay in the house." known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. constraint." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There late!' of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "'And the work?' graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us make me his representative both with the servants and with the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "Ah, but I was recommended to you." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "'How far from the body?' off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." not come at once?" "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said eat it." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous disturbance in my wife." in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission down in his armchair and closing his eyes. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Certainly." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow it means?" "Her father is very rich?" the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing horse could go." "He is dead," cried several voices. do you make of it all?"