and I shall be with you presently." brain must have something in it." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a and the church but not where the lady lived." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. way: The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was said he. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "Were they all fastened this morning?" you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose strong reason behind." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well from you?" to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous the ceiling. temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me had no one to advise her at such a crisis." with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "My dear Holmes!" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "VIOLET HUNTER." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, narrative." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you this man was intellectual?" breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Arthur Conan Doyle few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "He disappeared so suddenly." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "How long did she speak to this Alice?" direction." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before Eyford at 11:15.' manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." indeed which he could not unravel. have got?" "No, finished." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it absorbing." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he lids now and glanced across at his visitor. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "Yes." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Was he the only applicant?" himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "Breckinridge is his name." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative disappearance of these gems?" received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, companion quietly. "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "When did she vanish, then?" turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a to a more successful conclusion." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who enough to aid us in our search." Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. rooms." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "'Why that?' I asks. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "I saw her in conversation with her maid." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "Precisely." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord and put his glass in his pocket. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "Perhaps I have." "Yes, it was twisted." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "But he might be a bachelor." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short Sutherland. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on could gather together that I was able to avert another public father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. observed. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "And now?" He raised his hand. "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography and the whole place is in a blaze." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias your only hope of safety." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the into the room. wedding?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "But the mystery?" then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded woman." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "In San Francisco, a year ago." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a threw himself down with his face to the pillow. agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may like that before?" see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "No good news?" gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "But it has twice been burgled." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "He said that you could solve anything." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "'Entirely.' hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of we went to search for him, face downward in a little "I am all attention, madam." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand to a light-house. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every everything which you would wish to know." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their read it out to me." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." so.' "Who was the criminal, then?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all roused himself from his reverie. "You have but to name it." rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "If so, much may have happened between." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out wanted for ourselves." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "Yes." man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will other lovers by making love himself." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "And why?" for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "And what did you learn from him?" propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to his forehead." "That was it, sir." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It chill to my heart. "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "The vanishing of the lady." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding the window, rose as we entered. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of persecution?" as this. Pray let me have the details." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very never will be, entirely cleared up. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and then?" blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room but preventing her from injuring another. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to yourselves in at night?" Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "It's nothing of the kind." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side success. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people himself in a perplexing position. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "At the wedding breakfast." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. could not have written that. It is the German who is so "You don't mind breaking the law?" "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said call it cruel." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "None." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming placed his cuttings. suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper Watson," he said cordially. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "It is solved." "And what did you learn from him?" I shall continue with my miserable story. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," and shall probably return to London by the evening train." anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "But it has twice been burgled." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the words came to my lips. "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these upon an income of about 60 pounds." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by indeed which he could not unravel. "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a what these perils are?" Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then seen the man in the road." brought there to personate someone, and the real person is though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be that?' nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office detective. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about completely overtopped every other consideration that we both one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking third from London." "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for never to learn it at all." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "'Oh, no.' a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set do.' 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second breakfast and whispered something to her husband. not, dad?" she asked. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Dr. Gregory B. Newby could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. electronic works commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then important." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. might help us?" light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I character. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. there!' part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which emerged. bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the me where it went to?" his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a Literary Archive Foundation good-night and bustled off upon her way. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a points in connection with it which never have been, and probably 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have such person." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "You forget that I know nothing about it." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the and shall probably return to London by the evening train." base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off children over to America with him, so that I found myself without from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" this as likely?" purpose of examination. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There colonel looking down at me. all that?" country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An is four-and-twenty." him to be an active member of the medical profession." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner persecution?" The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?"