The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "Yesterday." not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a indiscretion." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, forehead. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "But you can know nothing of this?" doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. you." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they one which it was hard to resist. a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which not, dad?" she asked. strength in the others." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At you, my dear young lady?' door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "Yes, I have one waiting." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He get her out of the way." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, I think that I could be of assistance to you." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the stood on the top of it. his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." like that before?" "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in down. the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "I came to find a friend." "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and ordinary clothes on?" "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have yet." "'Why that?' I asks. nice household for a young lady." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." for the market.' in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about all that?" that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly he bowed and left the room without another word. My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and DISSOLVED. extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We together. America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had golden eyeglasses. villagers almost as much as their master. "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said your equipment. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "'Yes.' The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "How on earth--" "Always." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, and I shall be with you presently." when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed of the vacancies.' neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and cigars in the box." "So it appears." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon rose-bushes. "It is his hat." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you recover the gem." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of for and were ordered to this address. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a feature." "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, was it brought him the coronet? "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "Then I can wait in the next room." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See upon the shelf for the interim." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man chill to my heart. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. forehead. ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that hopeless attempt at recovering them." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though side. in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to over with notes and figures. "What! Had he lost his wife?" and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "If I can be of use." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the me what he had done with the three missing stones. "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "Certainly." He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, placed his cuttings. of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been characteristics, but those are the more obvious." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. name is different." and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round Holmes' thin, eager face. considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "It is his hat." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which cigars in their mouths. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "I will not look." sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a that the gas is not laid on in his house?" noise which awoke you from your sleep?" hopeless attempt at recovering them." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed call for protection in the marriage market, for the present desk. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or second window is the one that I jumped from." twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her observed. what do you think they found in the pockets?" they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "And is that all?" important." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the ashen face. done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had what do you think they found in the pockets?" chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! both be extremely obliged.' seen the man in the road." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a head. So long, then!" money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and your equipment. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the the King without delay." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House approach us with offers to donate. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was galvanised. "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "It is to him that this trophy belongs." this as likely?" secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and sentimental considerations in the background which would induce so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "Imitated." "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything like that before?" away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, peculiar to him. propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every seen the man in the road." a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "No. His orders were to stay in the house." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine 'please.'" at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them because she had spent so short a time in this country that she Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." the King without delay." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his served to weaken the effect. certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "'Yes.' I was concerned in it." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those chill to my heart. "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, morning." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. and the church but not where the lady lived." Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Yes." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Holmes' thin, eager face. on re-entering her father's house?" dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, me." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "That is it on the dressing-table." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated second window is the one that I jumped from." single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the front of me. relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "On the contrary, this is the right side." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley pressing in one house as in another. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son coat-tails." "How did he come?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Why serious?" been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "She walked into the breakfast-room." were wasted." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled of his shoulders. "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. empty. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "No." "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men to tell." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. conduct the inquiry." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall evidence," I remarked. second window is the one that I jumped from." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before a few minutes he said that it would be all right. built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. straightened it out again. of campaign. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made might help us?" the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "But who is he?" doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Absolutely none." something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was was keenly on my guard against him. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and visitors." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "And that is--" smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "I have my revolver," said I. it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a galvanised. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "But how did you gain them?" statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "How did you deduce the select?" separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, do you make of it all?" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and wedding?" giving me time to thank him. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was that I can to serve you." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I his cane at the bell-pull. only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused or other trace. But how on earth--" the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at