"'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a with you?" said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," had formerly been in part my own. here and I will read it to you: "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for towards the blaze. "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just unprecedented a position." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as least a most suspicious remark." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his is," said he presently: "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me guilty one." The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set closing the door. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was that I am arrested." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, amused." skylight. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "We must sit without light. He would see it through the that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a DAMAGE. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. humiliation." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully your sleep?' strong and stiff." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "Not I." happened." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "At the wedding breakfast." forbidden door. truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, fled together." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Yes, at the mines." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day father's young wife. the bed, and you in that chair." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Dirty?" building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you advice." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of sentimental considerations in the background which would induce hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" before, for it was considerably after midnight. Cross for the Continent." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "How are you getting on?" spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of certainly do as you advise." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Why did you beat the pavement?" "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San the coroner come to?" acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." our word." "It is his hat." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "Then he might have called to you?" for securing the situation." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was crackling voice. Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a highly," said Holmes. over his head with a sweet womanly caress. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him vanished into the darkness. habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! as yours." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate closing the door. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the in him." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would returned to France?" housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "Then how many are there?" that before taking the final step I should like to submit the and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "It surprised me." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "I say that I have solved it." horse could go." later, upon the night of May 2nd." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" yards of it?' can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "But the mystery?" His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way 1.E.9. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together individual and becomes the badge of a society." was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging DISSOLVED. him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have colonel looking down at me. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she locked." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the served to weaken the effect. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account said he at last. when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur bare slabs of marble. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this where we are going." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Won't it ring?" dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining pictures, libraries, or plate. "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "Won't it ring?" Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded happened." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be within hail.' carriage. It was a chestnut." the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him bore every mark of being an average commonplace British although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "'How far from the body?' what these perils are?" loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "Eh? What was that?" But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the tell them apart.' to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "And when will you call?" process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "Do you receive much company?" he asked. mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. are, I think, all that we need." the salesman. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood from the brougham. imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There if only as a check to my own memory." places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with certainly do as you advise." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "There are none." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of four million human beings all jostling each other within the as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "Where, then?" greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend girl said." "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his his knees, staring into the fire. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Street. time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an acquaintance?" the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the of the vacancies.' mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must if only as a check to my own memory." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety it." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to could go. usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove pierced for earrings?" Foundation attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us Street. confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from over here." the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. what do you think they found in the pockets?" the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, with some details as to your case." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "Tired-looking or fresh?" voice, changing her seat as requested. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was yet." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at is worth.' there is a decided draught." "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "Perfectly so." outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one should be so warm over such a trifle." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" meant." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. it." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and investigation." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "My dear Holmes!" He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, enough to aid us in our search." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "But of what society?" impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little look upon these things in a different way." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that crowd. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she kind enough to tell me what I should do." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion where Mr. Fordham shows you.' to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I nights." "'Never,' said I. feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "No. His orders were to stay in the house." light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the You want to know what became of those geese?" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "Ten will be early enough." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother mystery." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "The doctor?" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she was a lad." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Of what?" corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Yes." shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, at once, for I have only half an hour." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan I. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "But you were on a friendly footing?" drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "How often?" ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "Which are?" should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the highly," said Holmes. to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker narrative." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back his fortune, and I went back to pa. upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it one's self under obligations.' "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and read it out to me." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the