and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which one which it was hard to resist. said Mr. Holder. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "How can you tell that?" The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my house for five minutes.' "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his to me. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if searched, without anything being found which could incriminate the Red-headed League." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still occupations.' dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered of Fenchurch Street." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, dramatic, in fact." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "He is dead," cried several voices. no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, works. See paragraph 1.E below. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "Because he was handy and would come cheap." of the one which your family is now devouring." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "You know me, then?" "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't Eyford." garden below. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety row." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire eat it." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less might have a private word with us. taking in every detail of the apartment. top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "By train from Waterloo." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his your bag." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I bled considerably." handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "'I shall certainly be there.' "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the business at Coburg Square is serious." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat sooner or later she must fall a victim. I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "She told me to ask you." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than ago." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "Pray do so." for securing the situation." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "My stepfather's business papers." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in then?" number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon room had already been engaged for us. back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Yes. He waved his hands." civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for stepfather?" "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "No. What a strange idea!" a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be for securing the situation." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they went to the Alpha were town bred." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. Gutenberg-tm License. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Look there!" said he. "When did it break out?" my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the him!" "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, have established a very serious case against the son of the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "The doctor?" The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at exactly what you advise." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "Thank you. Pray proceed." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Perhaps we may make them less so." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "Proceed, then." doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." himself in a perplexing position. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this had a long day." "Ten will be early enough." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "So I heard. You have him here?" Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San are, I think, all that we need." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' God! What an exposure! What can I do?" habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "What do you make of that, Watson?" "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' you, my dear young lady?' "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my during the last few years, and there are many noble families to exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "No, distinctly professional." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a Pope's Court. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely of his shoulders. a few minutes he said that it would be all right. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in But Holmes shook his head gravely. doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "Now, then, what's the last entry?" quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "How are you getting on?" was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' thin, with a long, sharp nose?" that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "Did he not advertise?" late." "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and crime. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened populous neighbourhood." moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' them, and came down just as you departed. half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable business?" tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "One horse?" interjected Holmes. 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "'About the same.' gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it husband's writing, madam." "But to whom?" as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and with you?" hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." hour." bell. Holmes whistled. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an waste of energy." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project knowledge of the world." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "But she could not love him." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." you understand?" 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he cigars in the box." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in brandy and water within his reach. "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, flock.' "It's nothing of the kind." noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "You did not overhear what they said?" I nodded again. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely laugh and put his lips to my ear. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "I say it is." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" the station." murdered man." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "Do you receive much company?" he asked. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the call the police, let the police find what they can.' after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at disappearance of the bride.'" notes," he said. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "Witness: It was. daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. crackling voice. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the what do you think they found in the pockets?" knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as and shall probably return to London by the evening train." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they populous neighbourhood." "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could returned to France?" "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. tell me that you intended to go into harness." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and the coronet in his hand?" "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. It may be so in this case, also." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a wife's character?" While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, drawing your inferences." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest national property. I was determined that the law should have its letters?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." must be when I saw the door open.' "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he detained." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were his wife has ceased to love him." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "A call for help, you thought?" left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never nice household for a young lady." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my License. You must require such a user to return or my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a business in the City. She little knew what. murdered man." "Not him." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "I would pay ten." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid straightened it out again. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than