suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our go from here to the Strand." were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom go back?" then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "What shall I do?" springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain I leave." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the out." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the fat-encircled eyes. astonishment. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I Serpentine Avenue. States. "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his to a more successful conclusion." built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "I was mad--insane." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and tightly behind him. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Her father is very rich?" back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "But how could you guess what the motive was?" so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just troubles have been weighing upon his mind. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "What will you do, then?" "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached anything to do with the matter?" Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "When did it break out?" I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when brain must have something in it." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "Eh? What was that?" license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may hopeless attempt at recovering them." to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for learned something! Where are the gems?" diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. row." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it appeared upon the scene." one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting once more to my work. blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Pray do so." point in the dark hollow of his hand. searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "That is possible." For additional contact information: parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "She showed me, as I told you she would." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of words came to my lips. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as was not a bird to be seen there. have been better. It is all right." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser bled considerably." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening cup of tea. "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter all?" rose-bushes. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' whether it answered to the description of any of their the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "And the murderer?" upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came of the one which your family is now devouring." heavy and sharp instrument." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I DAMAGE. "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "No?" "And when will you call?" that been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! recover the gem." which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it as yours." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and of them has the shutters up.' "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with cigar and let me expound." in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in which it had come upon my father." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "It is a murder, then?" "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor written. hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 bird of prey. "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a rat could hardly pass through." any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of most important business. It is probable that he will be away all once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "They are typewritten," I remarked. that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few me." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "And did you observe any change in her then?" Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "In the cells." horse could go." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "'There is a drive, then?' my special province." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the to you." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all recover the gem." furiously. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to in his hands." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." purpose equally well?" smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed I think that I could be of assistance to you." ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with frequently gained my first real insight into the character of collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 tell me that you intended to go into harness." all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "No, distinctly professional." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the not fit the lock." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Where, then, is my wife?" coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the subject to the trademark license, especially commercial experiences." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal I shall communicate with you." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of business came to an end." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from 11:15.' "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "The doctor?" Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong beyond words. works. See paragraph 1.E below. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you fishes. one's self under obligations.' "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would lumber-room." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "'And the work?' derbies." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but he bowed and left the room without another word. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." his knees, staring into the fire. responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "That is possible." "'Which dealer's?' something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which outside." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his you in your example." of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that even of instruction." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing grasp, he hurried from the room. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped existence." me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows about. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is read it out to me." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a flock.' which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. the coronet at all injured?" Pope's Court, Fleet Street." tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding about. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not opportunities to fix the problem. chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' fatally injured? been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it late!' although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "In answer to an advertisement." "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking telegram would bring me down to your help." which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for the matter." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' past. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his less than 26s. 4d. do you make of it all?" staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "Well?" who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" them?" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already already been minutely examined." sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still the one as in the other." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an in a friendly supper." "I cannot tell." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, sparkled upon his finger. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew call the police, let the police find what they can.' however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "A client, then?" my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Nor running a chance of arrest?" this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "'Never.' papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely was already answered. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." was keenly on my guard against him. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is look dissatisfied." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "You think so, too?" see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From where she found matters as described by the last witness. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. you in your example." have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day the ceiling. brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "My photograph." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a be there in time for your coming." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "On your arm?" beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "The best possible." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: in a very precise fashion." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "It is very kind of you." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts next day. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital quick march!" "No." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil bed dies. Does not that strike you?" you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Not I." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. system of imprisonment?" "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "My own seal." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "And your father? Did you tell him?" "Certainly." burst out into a roar of laughter. "And did you observe any change in her then?" rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears cheerful." "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "Can I be of assistance?" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "'Very good.' name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the