"No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his the devil!" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Dirty?" wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "Is he quiet?" any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "Of Friday, June 19th." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a populous neighbourhood." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the astonishment. you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, the house with me." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the prison!" leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and over here." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "Why serious?" be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance persecution?" over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. ways of our fellow-men." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "'What, the red-headed man?' clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I could not account in any way for the presence of the missing much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "That is also quite modern," said the lady. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Yes." "Yes, he did." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "'Yes, it was gone.' closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an had formerly been in part my own. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought would then never go into court at all." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "That also I could fathom." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp good-night and bustled off upon her way. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his someone who had been in Australia." of the vacancies.' there in twenty minutes." writer." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of distance from the station, and there we found the young lady once more to my work. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and will not take me long to tell. time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is think that he is innocent?" expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. with you alone." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." Again Holmes raved in the air. has little to do with my story." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some careless servant girl?" short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you six. Come in!" back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had of it with the greatest attention. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "'Is purely nominal.' Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the waste of energy." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew that "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." if I call to-morrow?" who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Holmes. presented more singular features than that which was associated but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Then I shall certainly come." one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his man. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a sake, don't!" "So I have heard." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" him and tried to hold him back. "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "No." opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "'Quite sure, dad.' placed his cuttings. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" she to prove their authenticity?" "It's nothing of the kind." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any one which it was hard to resist. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a then?" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, the address that was given us in the advertisement. have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come done what I asked you, Jones?" is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "'As governess?' "Won't it ring?" look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "Nothing." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "Has he come with you to-night?" "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me enough to aid us in our search." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him Holmes." more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo them, and came down just as you departed. "What then?" arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "And you don't know his address?" the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "I was sure that I might rely on you." clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Pray do so." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which he died? horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence prisoner's face. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Pray be precise as to details," said he. and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to But Holmes shook his head gravely. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door purpose equally well?" without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the note?" her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of not within a twentieth part of the market price." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical narrative." and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. tightly behind him. given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as people don't know." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "But I am all in the dark." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. strength." strong reason behind." interests were the same as his." animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this Literary Archive Foundation who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this horse could go." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. meanly of me." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was when your master had gone out." past. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call strong reason behind." "But you were on a friendly footing?" The summons was a brief and urgent one. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination key turn in the lock." the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "I will try. What is it?" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "'I am sure that I do not know.' ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the window, rose as we entered. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "The knees of his trousers." against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "Upon what point?" other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be upon the white wrist. "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told in the dead of the night?' given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "A client, then?" I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. do." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "I say it is." taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. taking in every detail of the apartment. that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to Chief Executive and Director knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily rooms." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much to miss it." the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think if only as a check to my own memory." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set straightened it out again. centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white highly," said Holmes. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "You don't mind breaking the law?" man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It forbidden door. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "On Monday." I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was someone who had been in Australia." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "I have my revolver," said I. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, copied or distributed: must be when I saw the door open.' "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have again on its way. a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so memory. much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my narrative." place no limit on the sum I may draw." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "You horrify me!" distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "By no means." shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" come either from the window or the door. My attention was the coronet in his hand?" really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock in this way: photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. prepare for the new role I have to play." or in danger--" Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that married her." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "What then?" "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you ourselves in the office." unprecedented a position." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the locked." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and present." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I whatever might befall. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made wife's character?" DISSOLVED. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "'Ten to two.' been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his fait accompli?" process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an best detective that ever lived. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every him to be an active member of the medical profession." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing Count Von Kramm." "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "He is dead," cried several voices. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. guilty parties." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a despaired of." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, how narrow had been my escape. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "Were they all fastened this morning?" his wife has ceased to love him." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which lectures into a series of tales." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet again before evening." Leave Paddington by the 11:15."