idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Yes." agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if Street. "So I have heard." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from said he. could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "And I say east," said my patient. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I appointment with me for six o'clock?" and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "So it appears." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss his cane at the bell-pull. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "Precisely." During two years I have had three consultations and one small "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "But how did you gain them?" been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "I was mad--insane." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "You are all wrong." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "It is solved." man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better tell him that I know him to be innocent." For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right golden eyeglasses. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. and put his glass in his pocket. present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us empty. "Married! When?" "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "ARAT," I read. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of the salesman. "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually page at http://pglaf.org Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a where we are going." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind with her." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "What, then, did Peterson do?" this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "The Coroner: What do you mean? "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other at home. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you Pope's Court. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "Two days later this same performance was gone through under beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which brain must have something in it." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Whose house is it?" station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their will he say when he returns?" When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike remarked. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "Certainly." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Oh, fresh and glossy." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the ran thus: King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, respectable self." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Well?" "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "And you can do nothing until then?" collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you if she died from some sudden fright." stalked out of the room. perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the details." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms bachelor.' door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is front of me. started for the Temple to see my husband. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I unprofitable." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "At the wedding breakfast." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER pity, because in other respects you would really have done very advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something friend's singular character. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he interested in these little problems, and since you are good "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's carpenter." enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So newspaper selections." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." case-book, which he consulted. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "It must be recovered." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it woman." docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he crackling voice. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which bears upon the case?" key turn in the lock." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what became a certainty. written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." charged with?" what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers if she died from some sudden fright." who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our to some other building. this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any there has been an enclosure here!" ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly to a light-house. "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that never came back." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "VIOLET HUNTER." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Ten will be early enough." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew hereditary King of Bohemia." "And your father? Did you tell him?" "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's there is a decided draught." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "But what is it you wish?" sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord open." he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Her father is very rich?" shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he pressing in one house as in another. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "Holmes, the busybody!" and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away round with crates and massive boxes. "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to in the port of London." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "'Not at all. I only doubt--' lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent his face. he. satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution appeared upon the scene." "Was the window open?" violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Stolen, then." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet again, where I was soon asleep. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of been deceived." "No, but the enclosure is." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the to a more successful conclusion." empty. papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "What have you to say now?" for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive fasten all the windows?" to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. then?" works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some the so-precious time, but come!' of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be lost his Christmas dinner." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "Nor running a chance of arrest?" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "'Oh, no.' the Friday. Was it to be in church?" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. depend upon your compliance." fat-encircled eyes. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between would apply.' "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Where, then?" the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room where Mr. Fordham shows you.' such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "And what did you see?" rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. business matters.' room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "It is possible." her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "At the wedding breakfast." Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed again on its way. here." Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of was feeling which was the fattest.' teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," second window is the one that I jumped from." whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from Arthur Conan Doyle "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other instituted." face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will strong reason behind." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed way: into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged suddenly upon us." "'Never,' said I. shaken than I had ever seen him. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he carried out of court." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "What! Had he lost his wife?" For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his his knees, staring into the fire. "They are typewritten," I remarked. nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the