cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. vague figure huddled up in the darkness. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly heavy and sharp instrument." filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "But his left-handedness." "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "In answer to an advertisement." "The knees of his trousers." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would for its centre. "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower new duties?' "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, detective. face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been better grown goose." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about followed. face and glided from the room. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." coroner's jury." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every Have you good authority for what you say?" down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "That is not always so easy." have accepted such a situation. "And your father? Did you tell him?" conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' washing it down with a long draught of water. hair?' "Witness: Nothing definite. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that present." matter." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "Absolutely none." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which indeed happy." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "And I say east," said my patient. other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "'Is purely nominal.' Chief Executive and Director You can understand that this register and diary may implicate A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six them?" it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice should be taken.' down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided to tackle the facts." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was voice, changing her seat as requested. him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable pressing in one house as in another. the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that again on its way. twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper a few minutes he said that it would be all right. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had extraordinary contortions. before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey has little to do with my story." "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would details." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "By no means." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "It was." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that heavily into it. there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, any." "No good news?" responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for this as likely?" thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "But the mystery?" God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent woman who has had her own way to make in the world. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "But to whom?" Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box golden eyeglasses. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way could not have written that. It is the German who is so "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' placed his cuttings. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I British peeress.'" brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see is acting for the best. it." amused." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "He said too much." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" front of me. be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and signal between you and your father? The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from colonel looking down at me. look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the London for the present?" tightly behind him. touch that coronet?' your most interesting statement." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a she might be summoned. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "'Ample.' floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "I have my revolver," said I. unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and ago." closely." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "It was." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called lamp in his hand. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where again on its way. murdered man." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor name is different." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a introspective fashion. which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon read it out to me." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all gone. Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "What office?" "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I indeed happy." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, good for you to do.' we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. and glanced through. hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "'A dozen yards or so.' nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon him." calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they that I may have something better before very many minutes are to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Dark enough and sinister enough." horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm not use it unless it is absolutely needed." emerged. "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "That is not always so easy." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "What! Had he lost his wife?" "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification that threaten you." "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole certainly not very gracious." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have It may be so in this case, also." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper only touch the interest." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, on in his house." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us you." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? of campaign. "It is very kind of you." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very mystery!" are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "He is dead," cried several voices. "And the cigar-holder?" "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for fasten all the windows?" had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "Pray continue your narrative." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Serpentine Avenue. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no so.' "But his lameness?" "'Never.' "I say it is." His name is Francis Prosper." some city in a dream. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the would then never go into court at all." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "Did he not advertise?" endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." nothing of it?" simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin train.' the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then lips." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and despair." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, him. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "How many? I don't know." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to shag which I had seen upon the previous night. gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. fashion which was peculiar to him. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight pierced for earrings?" editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove very old mansion. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to really the only notable feature about the thing." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "'Where to?' "Texas, I think." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no man. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to which should have the effect of calling the attention of the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection of your young ladies.' have not had my rubber." Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he held up the lantern and gazed about him. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "'About the same.' "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no purpose of examination. "And help." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "'Ten to two.' "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Was the window open?" grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." official police." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have system of imprisonment?" Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense derbies." room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "What, then?" I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with nonsense.' "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in than was visible to me." "Well, but China?" upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and and I shall be with you presently." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in discontent upon his features. thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in light and attacked it." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "And how in the world did you find them?"