could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "I do." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite newspaper selections." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We intrusion of other matters." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Has he come with you to-night?" third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "How did you trace it, then?" came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "And is that all?" look upon these things in a different way." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant young Openshaw's." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "I will try. What is it?" violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, relief. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you stalked out of the room. as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "It came here." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "And it is--" as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If conversation I have gathered that they have been married about and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want hereditary King of Bohemia." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. in his power. the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back house for five minutes.' in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while nothing with him." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "None." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, important." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "But of what society?" editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "Could he throw no light?" that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young I approached. save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, gbnewby@pglaf.org Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "I cannot think." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." suspect him." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might learned something! Where are the gems?" each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all to Leatherhead. eat it." some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "On your arm?" the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "Entirely." bedroom door." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And I am not easy in my mind about them." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "But of what society?" "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, could go. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a and no precautions can guard against." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" over with notes and figures. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went Chief Executive and Director find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm like that before?" The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "What!" he roared. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is papers." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his prison!" "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who mystery." when your master had gone out." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found again, where I was soon asleep. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "No good news?" "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." the inner apartment." few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "But he might be a bachelor." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will business in the City. She little knew what. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "On your arm?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say discontent upon his features. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "What are they?" Mrs. Toller serenely. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his take the flies, but not before." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "It is to him that this trophy belongs." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "Whose house is it?" There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" children over to America with him, so that I found myself without to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was to talk it over. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the could go. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "The Coroner: What do you mean? least a most suspicious remark." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "How are you getting on?" "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "An enemy?" any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "Do you go out much in society?" look upon these things in a different way." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see along the entire front of the house, with three long windows it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very clanging. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in to have been novel and of interest." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "Never." "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking have I gained?" "I warn you that they are very incomplete." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. on re-entering her father's house?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "ARAT," I read. stammered. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the said he. Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own there were so many in the whole country as were brought together of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "The Coroner: What do you mean? who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for criminal. We have already had experience of such." ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "Absolutely none." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, wall." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and Sutherland. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." in a very precise fashion." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had to a light-house. used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "My stepfather's business papers." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to enough to aid us in our search." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. standing smiling on the door-step. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Count Von Kramm." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER Dr. Gregory B. Newby have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have occurred." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always closing the door. case-book, which he consulted. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the bears upon the case?" "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in eat it." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "And when will you call?" rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in highly," said Holmes. have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "An enemy?" "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social relief. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "This concluded the examination of the witness." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "'And what are they worth?' I asked. door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive nothing of it?" closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "There are none." "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in fluttered off among the others. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, Have you good authority for what you say?" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save His smile broadened. tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was said I. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would might have a private word with us. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." be.' Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did the stones. supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Pray continue your narrative." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms States. flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "I assure you that I am in your hands." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are row." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "Where did you address your letters, then?" "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and to-night." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are