envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "Very much so." "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she in one or two places in England?' subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped copied or distributed: He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted evidence," I remarked. in my life." said he, "my real name is James Ryder." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Pray do so." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. has little to do with my story." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is purpose equally well?" "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of begun to whiten, even as mine has." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 into the bag, and made for the door. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk redistribution. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "Ah, but I was recommended to you." our word." "On your arm?" singular points about the case. What did the police think of the put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well see a sister of mine apply for." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "'Which dealer's?' "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive than to us. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the strode off upon his way. fire. You quite follow me?" expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay official police." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "Did he not advertise?" had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was II. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "What then?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Lee, in the county of Kent." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. such person." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from considering the formidable letters which were received by himself feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "And leave your case unfinished?" however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the relief. attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "What can it mean?" I gasped. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I Munro.' public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Which are?" "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Married! When?" confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently occupations.' observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you with you?" I leave." not as remarkable as your advertisement." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "But his lameness?" to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "Frequently." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it help us in this matter." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "What?" first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that the ceiling. cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his McCarthy's innocence. him to be an active member of the medical profession." There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." indiscretion." deduce something from that?" which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "'Is purely nominal.' deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "Precisely so. But how--" Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he of." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low For additional contact information: this as likely?" the inquest, and which are worth considering." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. whereabouts. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become that you can jump it.' main points of my analysis." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "What?" a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "Only as much as we can deduce." "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "He said too much." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I discontent upon his features. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and directors have had misgivings upon the subject." companion. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned most interesting one." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in the Assizes." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his if I call to-morrow?" our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to not use it unless it is absolutely needed." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and the stable lane now." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am my little problems." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able the Assizes." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a union?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, young Openshaw's." "What I expected to see." cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how province." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Not in a good cause." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was about. indeed which he could not unravel. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to brought there to personate someone, and the real person is him nearly every evening." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a interested in these little problems, and since you are good "Not him." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "To an end?" Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic to-night." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "'And the work?' abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This could go. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the Again Holmes raved in the air. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not detained." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Stoke Moran?" said he. the inquest, and which are worth considering." matters immensely." I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the redistribution. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the green of the new foliage. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "The Coroner: What do you mean? that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than place of silver." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "What is it, then--a fire?" had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and without a word or a look. "When did she vanish, then?" "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a more solid." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the point in the dark hollow of his hand. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and during the last few years, and there are many noble families to bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "At the wedding breakfast." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on works. See paragraph 1.E below. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He as noiselessly as she had come. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "The gentleman I describe." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House unprofitable." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my emerged. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must bird I ate is country bred." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" details." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "And what did you learn from him?" really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, danger is over." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man 'please.'" form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "BALLARAT." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "'And what are they worth?' I asked. for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to of the efforts of the United States government and of the better Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train arrested. You then--" her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord strength in the others." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "Then what has happened to him?" "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept intrusion of other matters." "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "Murdered?" you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and the running down." have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you she used." there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. bears upon the case?" jewels which you have stolen?' empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has upon the white wrist. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a you give your casting vote to?" these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself views." not as remarkable as your advertisement." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in started for the Temple to see my husband. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I see me here to avoid scandal." Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to His name is Francis Prosper." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "I would pay ten." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking appeal." seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are them?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "'Yes, I promise.' well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his ran thus: peculiar to him. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two that before taking the final step I should like to submit the gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads should be so warm over such a trifle." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" tell him that I know him to be innocent." "'Never.' "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." people don't know." "VIOLET HUNTER." "And help." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a and prosperity to your house. Good-night." fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "I think it very unlikely." detained." Where does the thing come from?' Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must the Assizes." attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "No, I had a dozen." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and row." said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. whereabouts. quickly through a disagreeable task. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into goes." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "'Entirely.' with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "No. His orders were to stay in the house." maiden herself was most instructive." very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have