wedding?" away in different directions, and I went off to make my own to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "Witness: It was. pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an yet." as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" green of the new foliage. examine." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, question. can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Of what?" "Witness: Nothing definite. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "The King of Scandinavia." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection a room. work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 your equipment. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "I should like to see him very much." "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his followed. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' instincts rose up against that laugh. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. go--none." God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an night.' said he. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free His name is Francis Prosper." "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that attention." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not this unhappy family?" "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years the best of training." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" just ask you whether you had heard it.' doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we exactly what you advise." dramatic, in fact." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "In San Francisco, a year ago." and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "My stepfather's business papers." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "I am following you closely," I answered. disappearance of these gems?" have an American origin." we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that you?' "My stepfather's business papers." horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to in him." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to October 9, 1890. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to strength of mind to control. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the skylight. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Yes." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." and the colonel ushered me in. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the you." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "You know me, then?" It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what 11:15.' us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a like that before?" to affect your life." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder soul! here is her carriage at the door." obstinate." "'Ten to two.' of them has the shutters up.' "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he on in his house." bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. written. ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I during which he might have communicated with his friend the chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either situation." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be light and attacked it." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, followed. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some night.' said he. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner about. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "No, I had a dozen." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was detective. walking." married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. forebodings. girl said." "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, skylight. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been on re-entering her father's house?" struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "From his hat?" "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "Where, then, is my wife?" job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "It is half-past ten now." may never be exposed to such a temptation." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "In San Francisco, a year ago." impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as think that any burglar could have done. cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "He said too much." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, of campaign. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "'Where could I find him?' "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "What! a murderous attack?" dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, there." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior note?" of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it walking." however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, to take care of herself." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some have established a very serious case against the son of the pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap as this. Pray let me have the details." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" light and attacked it." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "'And what are they worth?' I asked. come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the bore every mark of being an average commonplace British adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant there were one or two details which were new to me. But the perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when habit of advancing money.' "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of deduce something from that?" "A confidential servant?" towards the blaze. would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue asked with his eyes open. While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and London for the present?" foresight and the moral retrogression?" "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was detained." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which way in everything. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who with some details as to your case." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "No, finished." do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much was a perfect sample of the class. expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his nonsense.' "Will you bet, then?" lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he into her hand at the door and which lured her within their lamp in his hand. This is what he says: instituted." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." father's young wife. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the correct than the official force." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "What I expected to see." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "What! Had he lost his wife?" "It is a murder, then?" "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to and prosperity to your house. Good-night." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it one else, I think." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "Now, then, what's the last entry?" he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Not yet." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his some water from a caraffe. space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" door?" blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "And why?" "Awake, Watson?" he asked. that I am arrested." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself my special province." really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "'You doubt its value?' he asked. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "Yes, that is the Crown." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient problems help me to do so." by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and that I may have something better before very many minutes are a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a door?" photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler neither fascinating nor artistic." to affect your life." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose conversation I have gathered that they have been married about hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "Yesterday." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until once more on the important position which you have been fortunate come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as she to prove their authenticity?" "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his union?" the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "And it is--" defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "Where to?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. a little more before I quite committed myself. of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum and the church but not where the lady lived." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I writing, and yet I know it well." eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Then I shall certainly come." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished,