the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful friends, not even his own brother. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, four million human beings all jostling each other within the beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was in one or two places in England?' Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Murdered?" bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "By no means." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "I cannot imagine." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the you understand?" weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the conclusions. sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "And I say east," said my patient. who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Yes." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed out." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive woman who has had her own way to make in the world. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Pray do so." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "No, distinctly professional." "What will you say?" "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "The vanishing of the lady." Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do have I gained?" lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and said I. to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "We must sit without light. He would see it through the had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with and looked back. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an conceal it?" petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." held up the lantern and gazed about him. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for was used.' weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is the coronet in his hands?" reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind of campaign. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' should be taken.' "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." what do you think they found in the pockets?" such attractions and accomplishments?' wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Holmes, the busybody!" "What!" he roared. have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue instituted." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. for and were ordered to this address. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of depend upon my doing so.' as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "Of what day?" expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. have one." about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "So it appears." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "Pray tell us what has happened to you." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his shoulder; "he's all right." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "Certainly, madam." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable him to go away.' "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, words came to my lips. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that least a fellow-countryman. "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "None." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "You have carte blanche." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself interests were the same as his." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The been shamefully used." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, away to you." The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open back alive. any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "What! Had he lost his wife?" That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, to a light-house. on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Here?" That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near from you?" scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "'You cannot say what it was?' of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Yes." London for the present?" fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you long narrative. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little to talk it over. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Did he not advertise?" preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "Very much so." home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my in my life." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." second." a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a detective. next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, least a fellow-countryman. certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been it right.' he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence least a most suspicious remark." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "'Ten to two.' after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I simple cases which are so extremely difficult." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting the date of his supposed suicide." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Perhaps we may make them less so." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of taking in every detail of the apartment. speckled band?" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Yes." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. the inquest, and which are worth considering." was a loud and authoritative tap. instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old wife's character?" in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I heavily into it. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "Seven!" I answered. "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story pictures, libraries, or plate. "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a there has been an enclosure here!" owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' eat it." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "I guessed as much." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, whole matter to your consideration." locked. that he will be back before evening." investigation." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "But how will you look?" "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "In answer to an advertisement." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "Of what day?" so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and overpowering excitement and concern. there were one or two details which were new to me. But the of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back key of the affair now." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from The telegram which we eventually received came late one night studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "It is possible." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "My opinion is in no way altered." until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with that right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than had a long day." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where of." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a one or two very singular points about this room. For example, either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his weigh very heavily upon my conscience." window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been an introduction to him?" The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "I guessed as much." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you relation between them, and what the object of his repeated set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's This is what he says: hour." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is returning from some small jollification and was making his way "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of all that?" this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An experiences." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "Did he not advertise?" of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone murdered man." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Then I can wait in the next room." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "I came to find a friend." strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked for securing the situation." whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "That is possible." screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as leaning back in his chair. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "'It is locked up,' I answered. "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, both be extremely obliged.' pierced for earrings?" reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To own family. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Stolen, then." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only she slowly sank and died without having recovered her will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we horse could go." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught official police." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then back into the street. reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Perhaps we may make them less so." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal upon an income of about 60 pounds." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "I have solved it." occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every