shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At to miss it." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was careless servant girl?" "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. call for it in person on Monday morning.' "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "Game for a morning drive?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the conduct the inquiry." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. are, and they are waiting for us." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "'Yes.' married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "Perfectly so." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "Do you go out much in society?" "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "What I expected to see." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "No." jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears papers." the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined see a sister of mine apply for." "And sit in the dark?" "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "It surprised me." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When think that any burglar could have done. and laid it on the table. seen the man in the road." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "It is half-past ten now." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. absolutely follow my advice in every respect." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with definite end. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, gbnewby@pglaf.org you do it in twenty minutes!' "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such face and glided from the room. "'Yes.' great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "'Stolen!' he cried. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Yes." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and used to be." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." such attractions and accomplishments?' dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." rat could hardly pass through." which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but noting anything else of interest. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" records." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low crackling voice. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "Then how many are there?" "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and and looked back. to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." not fit the lock." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to must compliment you." you." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the exactly what you advise." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, of fine shops and stately business premises that they really on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid face and glided from the room. he died? machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his whereabouts. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the vault. desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the said I. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "We must have a cab." whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "No." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "What?" us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Yes, it was twisted." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very lamp. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You fish-monger and a tide-waiter." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Never to return." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of This is what he says: shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "It is very clear." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "Murdered?" indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as have established a very serious case against the son of the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of newspaper selections." "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Of what day?" "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "That was it, sir." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in seem to you to be relevant or not." "I was mad--insane." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and Farm upon the left." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your you." at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "'Where could I find him?' "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked as the one I chose?' should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "I cannot tell." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It of it with the greatest attention. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the your sleep?' "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Oh, yes, easily." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "The knees of his trousers." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in clang of the bell. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became you." and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "What! You do not mean bodies?" to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "No, my brougham is waiting." "'Never,' said I. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "How can you tell that?" gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "What steps will you take?" I asked. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." in the dead of the night?' 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his "The gentleman I describe." "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "That is also quite modern," said the lady. explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "'Oh, no.' "What do you mean?" "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt which our visitor detailed to us. McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "VIOLET HUNTER." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the absolutely follow my advice in every respect." as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush details should find their way into the papers. Inspector and files of the old papers, following the future career of every points to suicide?" were wasted." pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "In which, sir?" Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from future lives." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. despair." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "'A dozen yards or so.' exactly what you advise." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "'Yes, sir.' finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to clang of the bell. hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary morning." "And your father? Did you tell him?" these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is subject to the trademark license, especially commercial prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a a few minutes he said that it would be all right. swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "'Very good.' man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." advice." England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never like that before?" some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a speckled band?" in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security up this clue while it is still hot." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." politicians who had been sent down from the North. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless in this way: of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "He said too much." essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project his forehead." handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we may never be exposed to such a temptation." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first occurred." lamp. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Yes." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can little trying to do so much typewriting?" named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right wanted for ourselves." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "'Where to?' flock.' We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to until night should bring an explanation. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "No, I am descending." recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled despair." considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "'Why that?' I asks. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the goes." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the detained." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's you." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Certainly, madam." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "Nothing." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the call you and give you the chance." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed was feeling which was the fattest.' The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "The vanishing of the lady." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be