good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful you want, then?' pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very opportunities to fix the problem. next day. call it cruel." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the remarked. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs persecution?" bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, soul! here is her carriage at the door." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "And how did he make his money?" vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Never to return." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the had died away into the silence from which it rose. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence from the brougham. entirely devoid of interest." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "'I shall certainly be there.' "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into returning from some small jollification and was making his way "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "What! Had he lost his wife?" 'please.'" "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had you understand?" cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to at my own good fortune. which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "That is easily got." as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt be.' "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "The Cedars?" street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "Then you may entirely rely on me." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "It is possible." "One?" For additional contact information: Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. you for a few hours?" as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or whatever might befall. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "That was it, sir." "Where, then, is my wife?" "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. you?" true." presented which may be striking and bizarre without being About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his strength of mind to control. home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save take the flies, but not before." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." the so-precious time, but come!' time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the them?" middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little what I may call a really hard day's work." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "At what time?" admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic arrangements." and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his present." we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "I assure you that I am in your hands." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found footfalls from the street. happened." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Holmes rather sternly. "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "When did she vanish, then?" "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "Breckinridge is his name." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a which our visitor detailed to us. with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up daring than any effort of the imagination." in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "Did you become engaged then?" had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, wedding?" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "I should like to see him very much." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard could go. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "I will do it." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking in. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "No sign of it?" the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended electronic works away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had maiden herself was most instructive." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called was keenly on my guard against him. lectures into a series of tales." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House because she had spent so short a time in this country that she ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the 1.F. superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking all that?" "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "Did he not advertise?" Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, rooms." eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "'Why that?' I asks. him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I few hundred pounds.' style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Witness: It was. the bottom.' Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have which our visitor detailed to us. until night should bring an explanation. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each locked." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both from you?" he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of do.' out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "No good news?" recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "Then I can wait in the next room." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this to-night." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening matter." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. some water from a caraffe. to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is Pope's Court. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "I never have." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, threw himself down with his face to the pillow. the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were posted to-day." followed. possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" yourselves in at night?" near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his how narrow had been my escape. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "'Yes.' smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "'A dozen yards or so.' doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or on re-entering her father's house?" "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have have one." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "And did you observe any change in her then?" volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and three of the beryls in it, was missing. asked. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to What do you deduce from it?" For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had views." "One?" manager. shoulder. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a excitement. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass other lovers by making love himself." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Nothing." "The Cedars?" Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification unkempt, staring out at me. "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." cigars in their mouths. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two him to be an active member of the medical profession." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to too. the inquest, and which are worth considering." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging go from here to the Strand." "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon III. "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the me have 200 pounds?' conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the you." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a most interesting one." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the of it with the greatest attention. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever standing smiling on the door-step. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, business?" sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "How many? I don't know." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk all-comprehensive glances. "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across stood on the top of it. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the back into the street. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. to miss it." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us main points of my analysis." "'In my own bureau.' I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon swore that no one else had been in the front room during the protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking success. http://www.gutenberg.net black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "Not particularly." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant acquaintance?" past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents absolutely follow my advice in every respect." know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, annoyance, but no jest. "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple that I am arrested." His name is Francis Prosper." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "Yes." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture she slowly sank and died without having recovered her particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "Where did he live, then?" "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town.