suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "When did it break out?" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent and prosperity to your house. Good-night." and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most should be taken.' "We must have a cab." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "I cannot think." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water bearing upon the case." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" taking in every detail of the apartment. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of voice. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "Not him." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked in the hope of finding them." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that will not take me long to tell. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "Where, indeed?" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must was feeling which was the fattest.' "I came to find a friend." "'In my own bureau.' be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "What!" he roared. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work the warnings." in my life." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "Yes." down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we window when the police appeared." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "You don't mind breaking the law?" in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "I will, Miss Turner." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should think that any burglar could have done. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. before, for it was considerably after midnight. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the matter." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "Thank you. Pray proceed." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "And I say east," said my patient. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "Yes." benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of or in danger--" this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What front of the hall door has given its name to the place. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else and all of them with the keenest interest. McCarthy." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "If I can be of use." gone. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: the driver. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "My photograph." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "In San Francisco, a year ago." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs true." foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "He slept on the premises." Street. looking up at the numbers of the houses." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "9th. McCauley cleared. lips." time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "I saw her in conversation with her maid." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how The events in question occurred in the early days of my agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then use an arc-and-compass breastpin." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had assist you in forming an opinion." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have had this final quarrel? Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his of fine shops and stately business premises that they really at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "And for present expenses?" snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all questioning and rather startled gaze. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, and it need not interfere very much with one's other his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "Will you go?" forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the I shall communicate with you." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to companion quietly. looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought bedroom door." the coronet at all injured?" have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "I don't believe it." turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose III. he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "The murder was done with it." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our purpose equally well?" rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so been shamefully used." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "Yes, I have one waiting." than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "But who is he?" It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug her also." might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a back into the street. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. learned something! Where are the gems?" "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing suspect him." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum questionable one." "No." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, must compliment you." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "I have a cab outside." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "What do you mean?" to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "How can you tell that?" "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the several quiet little villages up there." "I would pay ten." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear fat-encircled eyes. was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." this unhappy family?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered to take care of herself." I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "I am sure." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow that threaten you." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "One of the highest in England." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. him. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still papers diligently of late, have you not?" "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have union?" Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "No, I had a dozen." "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It a very grave face. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect woven round him. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "And on what day did he meet his death?" would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of correct than the official force." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "What do you mean?" matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell charge against him will break down." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father to where he stood hid behind the curtain. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call IS photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase something of him before." be best to do. minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "In heaven's name, what for?" off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a depend upon my doing so.' In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Tired-looking or fresh?" the bottom.' young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "But I am all in the dark." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot bearing upon the case." "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between What do you deduce from it?" as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "'Entirely.' which we had just quitted. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and placed his cuttings. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And remarked. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "And did you observe any change in her then?" Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his province." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace that, and I came down." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "I saw her in conversation with her maid." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so held up the lantern and gazed about him. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' prepare for the new role I have to play." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of noting anything else of interest. the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, and inquire as to the address." "I think that I had better go, Holmes." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second of it with the greatest attention. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a system of imprisonment?" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "What!" he roared. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps so far?" responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "I will, Miss Turner." "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the instincts rose up against that laugh. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a bedroom door." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered believe that I should never have any practice at all.