"Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired shadow pass over his face as I spoke. turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' drawing your inferences." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR status with the IRS. the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow lectures into a series of tales." give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "I was sure that I might rely on you." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while speckled band?" would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." chill to my heart. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of likely to be some crony of the landlady's." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back the very morning of the wedding." my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand is four-and-twenty." depend upon my doing so.' appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact was once confined in the cab my mission was practically miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was your billet.' to tackle the facts." "How many? I don't know." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are where Mr. Fordham shows you.' and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Look there!" said he. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and look upon these things in a different way." wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without the very morning of the wedding." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon compunction about shooting them down." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It fatally injured? "And why?" of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full tell him that I know him to be innocent." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "What then?" when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son yet." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close away into the river." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not will find little credit to be gained out of this case." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Well." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and do.' dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found upon the sideboard." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice of." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made despaired of." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler The note was undated, and without either signature or address. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "And help." "But his left-handedness." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon considering the formidable letters which were received by himself gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "She walked into the breakfast-room." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "I came to find a friend." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered into the room. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my him, that man would not have given me such complete information in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips had died away into the silence from which it rose. had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "I shall be delighted." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be direction." have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." be sorry for having acted so harshly." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Not particularly." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. telegram would bring me down to your help." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go goes." to me. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "I have my revolver," said I. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "You have the photograph?" work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "Eh? What was that?" again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "By no means." a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must been able to understand it, in a very few words. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some of the vacancies.' key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "'There is a drive, then?' sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not had this final quarrel? to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, think that any burglar could have done. his fortune, and I went back to pa. cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your little trying to do so much typewriting?" brandy and water within his reach. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, upon the sideboard." swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of flock.' of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." article?" similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had IS think that any burglar could have done. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry furiously. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project to that open window." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all During two years I have had three consultations and one small repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right residence of the great financier. eavesdroppers?' there!' the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time I shall communicate with you." empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' girl said." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "What have you to say now?" skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: arrested. You then--" examine." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." hereditary King of Bohemia." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Precisely." main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "And how have you succeeded?" utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every away into the river." The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you down from London to inquire more deeply into it." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two one else, I think." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done awaited us upon the table. his forehead." "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in Sholtos." "What is it, then--a fire?" Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to character. "How many? I don't know." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, round and wave him away like that.' "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution coroner's jury." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend paper in the air. "Yes." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me made him keep the appointment." remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I man. I know him from the photograph." Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of James Windibank. Voilà tout!" another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his started for the Temple to see my husband. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the coroner come to?" comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. business came to an end." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer passage and a tap at the door. "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "That is also quite modern," said the lady. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, his eyes and forehead. of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." Count Von Kramm." of the way of danger. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "Come in!" said he. Holmes' room. had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "Of what day?" some water from a caraffe. breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "'There is a drive, then?' "Nothing." adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." even of instruction." "In heaven's name, what for?" "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was it were putty." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist the matter." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward swore that no one else had been in the front room during the see me here to avoid scandal." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. my room." placed his cuttings. mystery!" is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "He is dead," cried several voices. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a of campaign. "None." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they key turn in the lock." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I morning." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able least a fellow-countryman. interested in these little problems, and since you are good human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, breakfast." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or is acting for the best. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest it." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of God! What an exposure! What can I do?" 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a I nodded to show that I had heard. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in any." exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Then I shall certainly come." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of this unhappy family?" "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "I cannot say that I have." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "We must sit without light. He would see it through the butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, putting in the horse. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way lids now and glanced across at his visitor. burst into a hearty fit of laughter. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, from you?" unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the