has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "No." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "I cannot tell." you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "I think that it is very probable." excitement. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were such person." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he of it with the greatest attention. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "'How far from the body?' from you?" multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage in this note: walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "I am armed." cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying of." in a friendly supper." "'And the work?' highroad, where all traces were lost. Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was pressing in one house as in another. him and tried to hold him back. gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He His smile broadened. round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove Lee, in the county of Kent." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Not social, then?" "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Can I be of assistance?" enter into my head. his forehead." "Yes." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "To ruin me." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; you in yours." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon like gravel from a pit.' "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you joking. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door daring than any effort of the imagination." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite you?" the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the goes." "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "What! a murderous attack?" cup of tea. "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "Certainly." head. So long, then!" at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect following enigmatical notices: my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." started for the Temple to see my husband. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "Yes, at the mines." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "No." explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "To ruin me." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and along the entire front of the house, with three long windows terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "Your sister is dead, then?" "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, front of me. upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "No legal papers or certificates?" the bottom.' sufficient punishment." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." is now desirous of getting those letters back." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who the very morning of the wedding." "You have but to name it." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "No more words. Get out!" McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "'Is purely nominal.' was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "And leave your case unfinished?" George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be results." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was presume?" belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "I guessed as much." second." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "Game for a morning drive?" and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The thought that she would have been so carried away." such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." you want, then?' "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "She walked into the breakfast-room." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there to a light-house. dead, shall be safe with us." I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. to his chemical studies. "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "But your client--" sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm coroner's jury." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door kind enough to tell me what I should do." Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the minor matters until to-morrow." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "And your father? Did you tell him?" "The King of Scandinavia." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have an introduction to him?" papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged entirely lost his self-respect." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off that?' "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me me upon any point which I do not make clear." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some Farm upon the left." my room." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "But your client--" "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Eyford at 11:15.' them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the photograph?" Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying made him keep the appointment." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "You think so, too?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Yes." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes was not a bird to be seen there. "But we can't all be." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Well, but China?" "Why did you beat the pavement?" ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a tightly behind him. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "Ah!" we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time guilty parties." developed." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! was shining brightly. spare." for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be fishes. handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, bears upon the case?" the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "I will do it." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "In San Francisco, a year ago." were wasted." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "You have the photograph?" little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "Stolen." green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, to have that photograph." One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was upon a handsome competence. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been business." nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Married! When?" you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry kindly on the shoulder. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had Have you good authority for what you say?" without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "I cannot tell." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "Perhaps I have." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home your co-operation." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "Yes, it would be as well." galvanised. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim prison!" creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "'Very good.' "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "My Mary? Impossible!" meanly of me." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I to some other building. out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "Did you become engaged then?" "My dear Holmes!" platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. with you alone." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another never will be, entirely cleared up. the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is Holmes. his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from good-night and bustled off upon her way. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "Yes, it would be as well." "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "The decline of his fortunes, then?" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough became a certainty. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction down. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun use an arc-and-compass breastpin." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "But what harm can there be in that?" chance." wife's character?" she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "Bought." himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." the window, rose as we entered. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly any." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as quite distinctive." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "10th. John Swain cleared. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from may have an influence upon European history." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "You have carte blanche." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations your equipment. "'Where could I find him?' "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "It is a murder, then?" "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. hour." probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "Yes." matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything