thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "Yes." carpenter." works. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told knowledge of the world." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of just called myself is not exactly my own." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some our word." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy secret." hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in British peeress.'" unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. was a lad." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "Was she in good spirits?" bonnet, and went out." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources http://gutenberg.net/license). "Then you may entirely rely on me." "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in trying to your nerves." "Why serious?" Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "'Yes, I promise.' myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger written, and locked the door of the office after me. "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "You horrify me!" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have matter." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms became a certainty. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and British peeress.'" himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Her father is very rich?" man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "Because he was handy and would come cheap." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes with some details as to your case." Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of charge against him will break down." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "Of Friday, June 19th." against a man in the prime of life?" not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. could go. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Ah!" work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "No, I think that I'll take it." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes be best to do. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "Then I do not see the point." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who instincts rose up against that laugh. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a light and attacked it." We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "Who was the criminal, then?" prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend and I shall be with you presently." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your this poor creature." "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and one else, I think." This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "My stepfather's business papers." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so whole matter to your consideration." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling so far?" anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her the running down." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are ago." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when would then never go into court at all." wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" believe that I should never have any practice at all. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster particular state visit http://pglaf.org boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "'And what salary do you ask?' "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." other, as fresh and trim as possible. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, breakfast and whispered something to her husband. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and which was all perfectly true. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with nonsense.' "They are typewritten," I remarked. had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "I cannot imagine." brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each into the bag, and made for the door. "The rest you will leave in our hands." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." Street. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey constraint." my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "Not social, then?" could go. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my orange pips. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "I was sure that I might rely on you." Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way be best to do. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the woman." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote hand, madam?" "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed any." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "What shall I do?" and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "And how did he make his money?" to you." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "No, I had a dozen." age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a my former friend and companion. of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in stammered. screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate right! Sit down and let us talk it over." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly undoubtedly my uncle's." twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, the nursery. better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and about here speaks of his kindness to him." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." dates and names. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me of campaign. morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it his eyes and forehead. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so photograph?" wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his God! What an exposure! What can I do?" was it brought him the coronet? pierced for earrings?" death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Yes, it was twisted." betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each few hundred pounds.' "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "I have hopes." "What do you make of that, Watson?" "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "Certainly." her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." any." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out memory. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and Stoke Moran." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on writer." A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no beyond words. once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "One of the highest in England." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "The Coroner: What do you mean? have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal chemical work which was so dear to him. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just existence." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong within hail.' was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, have an American origin." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by my secret was safe in his possession. rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew system of imprisonment?" "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. until night should bring an explanation. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them Where does the thing come from?' January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "That is also quite modern," said the lady. only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." Dr. Gregory B. Newby platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. fire. You quite follow me?" following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed in the port of London." spark where all is dark to me." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "But his left-handedness." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "Do you go out much in society?" 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's the iron safe, which he closed upon it. profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded and no precautions can guard against." landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may face and glided from the room. was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up arrested. You then--" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great to a light-house. "This concluded the examination of the witness." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "To the police?" where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, returned to France?" bachelor.' instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "This concluded the examination of the witness." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some For additional contact information: bedroom door." exactly what you advise." home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a is so. I know all about McCarthy." everything which you would wish to know." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "What do you mean?" "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "What are they?" Holmes' room.