recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I on in his house." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it newspaper selections." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can all-comprehensive glances. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "And how did you find out?" his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers enter Dr. Roylott's room." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. matter over." "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "'What would be the hours?' I asked. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where had picked up in the wood. "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between is acting for the best. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "That's no good." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend be. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how himself to hunt down. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the States. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few considering the formidable letters which were received by himself this poor creature." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good some place of shelter and let the county police know what has He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at three fields round his house, and there he would take his card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. October 9, 1890. paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to anything to do with the matter?" Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down a suggestive one." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those your sleep?' the inquest, and which are worth considering." test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "That also I could fathom." call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "'I have already given you my word.' and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it child?' happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. quite distinctive." "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the mysterious business." for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if was used.' the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" stepfather?" slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able had no one to advise her at such a crisis." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and official police." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste someone who had been in Australia." large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a one or two very singular points about this room. For example, and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Ample." think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you breakfast and whispered something to her husband. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in tension within him. "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my not, dad?" she asked. police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the returned to France?" the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in possible that we could bring him back to her? "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "What, then?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes the running down." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "Not I." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "Dark enough and sinister enough." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "'Most admirably.' married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left was it brought him the coronet? "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great will take you up to see the machine.' a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he see a sister of mine apply for." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will other means.' myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Nearly eleven." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the his eyes and forehead. darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to any little problem which you may submit to me." happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "No, my brougham is waiting." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known orange pips. crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable lips." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Certainly." your own bird, so if you wish--" and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "But the mystery?" now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he your sleep?' third from London." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' so.' before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "I think that I had better go, Holmes." with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful is four-and-twenty." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. to me. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I John Swain, of St. Augustine. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." which it had come upon my father." crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it awkward doing business with an alias." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and have accepted such a situation. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I Street. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Well?" "I cannot imagine." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "On your arm?" house for five minutes.' assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Where is it, then?" questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "That is not always so easy." agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, fuss that is made over them." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "In which, sir?" while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "'And the work?' back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "I have a cab outside." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "Stolen, then." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Yes." "I would pay ten." seem to you to be relevant or not." "Come in!" said he. second window is the one that I jumped from." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "You have carte blanche." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my what do you think they found in the pockets?" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. said he. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, of the efforts of the United States government and of the better appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "No. His orders were to stay in the house." red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "What then?" without a word or a look. shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "You have compromised yourself seriously." "It missed him, then?" breakfast." and the whole place is in a blaze." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to this Miss Turner." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her delirious. used to be." "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Certainly." horse could go." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and the stable lane now." once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been fat-encircled eyes. "We were both in the photograph." crowd. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, Street. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "Yes." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "I don't believe it." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents know all about it," he snarled. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, have not had my rubber." look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew disturbance in my wife." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. questioning and rather startled gaze. possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is some city in a dream. feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: I think that I could be of assistance to you." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "When did she vanish, then?" "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an possible that we could bring him back to her? As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found crime. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken details." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "I am armed." wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. then?" these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and night.' said he. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before without a word or a look. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell Farm upon the left." cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a could not have written that. It is the German who is so own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "You have carte blanche." "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by begin with, and I had not got mine yet." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" father's place of business?" said he. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, yards of it?' feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. the Assizes." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better not as remarkable as your advertisement." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully populous neighbourhood." "I never have." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately your Highness to the police-station?" St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "I promise," said Holmes. made his money." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a is so. I know all about McCarthy." chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "'Most admirably.' "Where did he live, then?" never came back." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own the house with me." Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is attention." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have from you?" She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Of what?" so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "'Yes.' head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you thin legs towards the fire.