A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "I am still in the dark." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's your equipment. is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the round with crates and massive boxes. him!" places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "And how have you succeeded?" some place of shelter and let the county police know what has trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how instituted." friend's singular character. preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I name is different." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. Pope's Court. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already this poor creature." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of get her out of the way." "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but shall not find me ungrateful." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian enter into my head. fatally injured? "Why, what do you mean?" seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "A confidential servant?" "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "By train from Waterloo." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried forecastle of an emigrant ship. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "By train from Waterloo." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love once more to my work. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The gone. "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had in a friendly supper." very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." my former friend and companion. anything to a woman, for she would have her way." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted new acquaintance to Baker Street. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when will not take me long to tell. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day dates and names. that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and to-morrow." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the past. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant business at Coburg Square is serious." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "'Entirely.' peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the and the colonel ushered me in. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the and wait." "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the the Red-headed League." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled awkward doing business with an alias." past. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two shag which I had seen upon the previous night. occupations.' "And it is--" evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. tail." "He said that you could solve anything." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Never." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "And who is her maid?" the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "No, I am descending." "What, then, did Peterson do?" not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. disturbance in my wife." is worth.' depend upon your compliance." uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." laugh and put his lips to my ear. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "And what then?" know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. corner of the building. tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Yes." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew tail." 1.E.9. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel was not a bird to be seen there. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "Look there!" said he. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab here and I will read it to you: problems help me to do so." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "Not him." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew once more. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the narrative." extraordinary contortions. the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. most interesting one." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "'Most admirably.' c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. pound a week." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have served to weaken the effect. room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in the coronet at all injured?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is possible that we could bring him back to her? casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not the warnings." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce at my remark. thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "One of his hands." beyond words. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which in him." "They are typewritten," I remarked. outside." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Then I am your man." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body read it out to me." the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It gone. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "So I have heard." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical was not a bird to be seen there. surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "At the wedding breakfast." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "'Yes, sir.' "Oh, yes, easily." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "Yes. He waved his hands." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "'Where to?' glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "It surprised me." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "And help." touch that coronet?' The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the good for you to do.' "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful ourselves in the office." that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on bird I ate is country bred." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the shall not find me ungrateful." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred their singular warning or token before them when starting upon much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little locked." placed his cuttings. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my know what is wrong with it.' impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." or in danger--" some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose fishes. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Really! You surprise me." be best to do. some water from a caraffe. "What can you not understand?" fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Yes." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of flock.' so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these not within a twentieth part of the market price." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "Well, but China?" ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "Frequently." "Then you may entirely rely on me." "An enemy?" that he has suffered." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "'How far from the body?' into the room. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "What do you mean?" in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished tapping his fingers upon the table. him, that man would not have given me such complete information moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. green of the new foliage. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "No good news?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Cross for the Continent." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, of campaign. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." experiences." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" that?' "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me extraordinary contortions. forecastle of an emigrant ship. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "'As governess?' ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have that threaten you." very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies fatally injured? his knees, staring into the fire. be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with daring than any effort of the imagination." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "You are all wrong." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to used to be." He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred true." tied." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had beg that you will break it off." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and and no precautions can guard against." leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor to change my dress. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither crime." mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother started for the Temple to see my husband. drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged name is different." sooner or later she must fall a victim. know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life question. straightened it out again. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others