lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated generous with you in money matters.' following enigmatical notices: might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a leaning back in his chair. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with singular points about the case. What did the police think of the lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. Munro.' companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "It is to him that this trophy belongs." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Her father is very rich?" is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "'Yes.' "I never have." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "'Where could I find him?' and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "'Stolen!' he cried. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "But his left-handedness." happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of look upon these things in a different way." this remarkable episode. the bed, and you in that chair." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, and inquire as to the address." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; only touch the interest." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there him. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "What I expected to see." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the It may be so in this case, also." During two years I have had three consultations and one small interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he rooms." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of Edgeware Road. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold read over the extraordinary announcement. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I are, and they are waiting for us." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "It missed him, then?" what these perils are?" sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying invisible to me," I remarked. death." "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated money should be paid at once.' completely overtopped every other consideration that we both The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a done what I asked you, Jones?" which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, of it with the greatest attention. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever leave you to your papers for a little." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "I say it is." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." know that the truth is known." "I say that I have solved it." roused himself from his reverie. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than rat could hardly pass through." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Yes. He waved his hands." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave occupations.' so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "To the police?" the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the that, and I came down." sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "'Which dealer's?' away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "But she could not love him." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that closely." security.' them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found when you have done it." "I came to find a friend." Gutenberg-tm License. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of might help us?" it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, this remarkable episode. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well read it out to me." observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "'Stolen!' he cried. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Quite so. She has her freedom." such person." past. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your and all of them with the keenest interest. unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and him to go away.' grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in foot. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. his fortune, and I went back to pa. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of with the outside air!" superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but returned to France?" 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which presume?" there when the Rucastles went away." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even ago." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Was she in good spirits?" "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very garden below. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the locked." Lee, in the county of Kent." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could fact, we may call it conclusive." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious http://www.gutenberg.net "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his front of me. rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private disappearance of the bride.'" nothing of it?" Mrs. Toller serenely. deduce something from that?" broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for ashen face. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "I cannot tell." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the he died? subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "You'll never persuade me to believe that." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "Very well, sir. And this stone?" effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel horse could go." scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of had formerly been in part my own. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. You want to know what became of those geese?" "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the know what is wrong with it.' across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. own family. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would the room while you explain this matter?" "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very dead, shall be safe with us." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just the Red-headed League." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his handed it to him. inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, to tackle the facts." he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his shall not find me ungrateful." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. ways of our fellow-men." "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it orange pips. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "It is to him that this trophy belongs." snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with if I call to-morrow?" "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "What are they?" you want, then?' a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his cause to be." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I place no limit on the sum I may draw." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my call it cruel." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who empty. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all upon a handsome competence. any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and round with crates and massive boxes. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the I think that I could be of assistance to you." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "No." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily companion quietly. open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. bare slabs of marble. gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the think you a quite exceptional woman." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." investigation." first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking less than 26s. 4d. from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. you." income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom society." face and glided from the room. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her strong reason behind." "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the in a friendly supper." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "Look there!" said he. all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "In which, sir?" "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the sit on the left-hand side of the driver." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without suggested at once that there must be a communication between the for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will held up the lantern and gazed about him. sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for stammered. Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and at once, for I have only half an hour." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the would apply.' "What then?" heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note the stones. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you one or two very singular points about this room. For example, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "Of what?" "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "Well, some hundreds of times." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew meanly of me." the tragedy. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "And the murderer?" for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "You have but to name it." I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both to a more successful conclusion." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "What can you not understand?" Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but of Mr. Rucastle's." bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could was lame." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." peculiar to him. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "But you were on a friendly footing?" to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up instincts rose up against that laugh. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "Who was the criminal, then?" theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "Where is it, then?" make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. is," said he presently: "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged Pope's Court, Fleet Street." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." and the whole place is in a blaze." never came back." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "Then what has happened to him?" "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to annoyance, but no jest. charge against him will break down." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. what is your own theory as to what took place?" in the dead of the night?' Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a answered with a sidelong glance. "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much the one as in the other." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and lips." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he me." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood