was a loud and authoritative tap. and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left speckled band?" least a fellow-countryman. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Countess of Morcar's?" on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" to that open window." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I to me. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would one of them." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" detective. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take some terrible trap for her." it." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have DISSOLVED. shall use the carriage to-night." at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want pressing in one house as in another. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. promised to bring home. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was following enigmatical notices: "Then he might have called to you?" gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally to arrive at through this?" bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such stammered. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of second window is the one that I jumped from." the date of his supposed suicide." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "Really! You surprise me." answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more all that?" "I would pay ten." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this cup of tea. noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "'I am sure if I had known--' pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will possible that we could bring him back to her? the side-table." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and been." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged like gravel from a pit.' I have it here in my museum." her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "I am in hopes that she does." throat." "That is unusual in a young girl." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign sentimental considerations in the background which would induce impression behind it as though a window had gently closed ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; in him." with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "But you have hopes?" lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed like gravel from a pit.' Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "No. His orders were to stay in the house." you, my dear young lady?' other lovers by making love himself." "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and his face. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he chill to my heart. into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "Why? What do you mean?" occurred." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and desk. magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "You have the photograph?" "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "'Certainly,' I answered. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "Here?" the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof you want, then?' no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "I saw her in conversation with her maid." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some carried out of court." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, woman." train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold in. "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught have an American origin." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "It missed him, then?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Whose house is it?" "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. true." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of bare slabs of marble. that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "From his hat?" you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Not in the least." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "In heaven's name, what for?" any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." one of them." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Certainly." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building singular points about the case. What did the police think of the office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his generous with you in money matters.' I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I perplexity from it to my illustrious client. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "I have my revolver," said I. glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version laugh and put his lips to my ear. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "Did you observe the colour?" she used." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of within hail.' throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start ourselves in the office." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "So I am. Very much so." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a meant it for the best. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "You know me, then?" get the tickets." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque I held the little printed slip to the light. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "No." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he him, that man would not have given me such complete information presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I to have been novel and of interest." here and I will read it to you: London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Sutherland. "I am armed." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to front of the hall door has given its name to the place. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town My friend smiled. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the investigation." together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white entirely devoid of interest." feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall other lovers by making love himself." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light begun to whiten, even as mine has." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "'Most admirably.' it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That future lives." "Nothing." "I see no marks." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the look upon these things in a different way." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "No." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the and your relations to her." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the one of the states of the Union." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry had formerly been in part my own. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "And did you observe any change in her then?" distinguish the words: with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "It certainly sounds feasible." of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand the date of his supposed suicide." chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your train from Paddington which would bring you there at about should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and asked. reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the hands. wanted for ourselves." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when there!' son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three young Openshaw's." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "He is still with you, I presume?" and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I likely to be some crony of the landlady's." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have guilty parties." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming definite end. green of the new foliage. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did and laid it on the table. "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular do.' for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend present." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some cheerful." "One?" laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Why? What do you mean?" and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was away in different directions, and I went off to make my own affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "That also I could fathom." "Did you become engaged then?" "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." ago." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me been anything against him. He had for years been known as a grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten tear off another piece?' is worth.' The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "Absolutely?" "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the guilty parties." through." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "No good news?" should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "By all means." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope emerged. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his voice. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than bonnet, and went out." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There prison!" him." strode off upon his way. done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a certainly not very gracious." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the investigation." us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting nights." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time go back?" http://www.gutenberg.net that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. death." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand the address that was given us in the advertisement. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "No, thank goodness, she did not." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I to talk it over. security.' salesman. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. together. "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "Yes, at the mines." the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining hardly wander." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened never came back." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a gentleman's clothes. pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to of this gang." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing ceremony." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had