didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This skylight. Surrey." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found lectures into a series of tales." ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way the stones. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" writer." Street. "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, case before our client came into the room." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. it." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: tail." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "No sign of it?" reach." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. man. cigar and let me expound." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which the stones. such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" something of him before." ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "And who is her maid?" rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose points in connection with it which never have been, and probably I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable get the tickets." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some again, where I was soon asleep. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am back to my heart. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm But Holmes shook his head gravely. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" families. Now for the facts. in this way: Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Pray do so." the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "I have hopes." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought not personally threatened." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you lost nothing by them." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "I know where it is." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. out." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my it were putty." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "'About the same.' would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "What do you mean?" akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to better in every way that they should make their position a little chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "I cannot say that I have." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through detective. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but do.' family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the outsides of the windows. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Did your wife hear all this?" way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give thirty. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen address. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "Where did he live, then?" whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, here." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been fashion which was peculiar to him. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the official police." it with his own hands." and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg and capable of preserving a secret.' permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "You know me, then?" the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that photograph?" "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" believe that I should never have any practice at all. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, the stable lane now." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "I see many objections to any such theory." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither will find little credit to be gained out of this case." any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been "It was an hour's good drive." one of the states of the Union." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some to-night?" I asked. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "'Where to?' owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "I cannot think." "Then I am your man." written, and locked the door of the office after me. Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little subject to the trademark license, especially commercial your billet.' seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further closely." she to prove their authenticity?" the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than your own bird, so if you wish--" line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock such attractions and accomplishments?' her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, lost nothing by them." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did know all about it," he snarled. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of and laid it on the table. it." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, out of this horrible affair." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "'Never.' the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "I don't believe it." America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, second window is the one that I jumped from." "By train from Waterloo." greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I affair. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over round and wave him away like that.' shoulder. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling an introduction to him?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, very old mansion. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready like that before?" "How on earth--" like that before?" poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the http://www.gutenberg.net words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Never to return." amused." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "Which are?" weapon." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon completely overtopped every other consideration that we both Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" you, my dear young lady?' supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day upon an income of about 60 pounds." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "Why did you beat the pavement?" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my the tragedy. "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." that I may have something better before very many minutes are you." as he remarks, very much against the son." "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for will not take me long to tell. it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' respectable self." pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents breakfast and whispered something to her husband. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual with her." work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & the inquest, and which are worth considering." finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, joking. suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "What, then, did Peterson do?" then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is wanted for ourselves." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my DAMAGE. "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, again, where I was soon asleep. horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness confronted him. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. Holmes." imbecility!" he cried. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you our word." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "It is possible." and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended hopeless attempt at recovering them." Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, my special province." purpose of examination. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father copied or distributed: too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "And it is--" it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' wife's character?" and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found http://gutenberg.net/license). "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice closely." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she away to you." that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Not I." you understand?" opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "Perfectly so." his fortune, and I went back to pa. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his