by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by before the coroner and the police-court." together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it was shining brightly. sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search Holmes' face clouded over. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed tightly behind him. once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland my special province." "And how in the world did you find them?" it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "How did you trace it, then?" "'How far from the body?' out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "Your French gold?" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all Arthur Conan Doyle "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "And what did you learn from him?" "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have fire. You quite follow me?" was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "And what did you learn from him?" of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." 1.F. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe tail." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now himself. have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat http://gutenberg.net/license). the driver. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was telegram would bring me down to your help." extraordinary contortions. were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' national property. I was determined that the law should have its "What will you do, then?" had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter in. twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is and inquire as to the address." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and corner of the building. to affect your life." the stable lane now." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were might help us?" heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "By all means." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any open." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "I say it is." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, of his shoulders. conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Imitated." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the careless servant girl?" it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, cause to be." peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was the running down." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." reach." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, matter over." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with generous with you in money matters.' any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, are windows in it, of course?" and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" correct than the official force." shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "The Coroner: What do you mean? Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in unprofitable." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, Street. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made me. You must get home instantly and act." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "And how have you succeeded?" there were so many in the whole country as were brought together Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to the roots. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "'What do you call purely nominal?' have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He the coronet in his hand?" some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "Look there!" said he. "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his washing it down with a long draught of water. "Tired-looking or fresh?" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm there!' corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling to a more successful conclusion." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "And the murderer?" leave you to your papers for a little." Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of this man was intellectual?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried think that he is innocent?" blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. light and attacked it." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I crime." my room." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "'What are you doing there?' he asked. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of respectable self." man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "But your client--" the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "Yes, there are nearly always some there." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." own family. "Yes, the wine-cellar." been deceived." to tackle the facts." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. fluttered off among the others. status with the IRS. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "You forget that I know nothing about it." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy in one or two places in England?' you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "I cannot think." off." "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, I shall continue with my miserable story. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for remarked. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" The police have openly confessed that they can at present make little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of problems help me to do so." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should and laid it on the table. outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "To the police?" very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such outside." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock fashion which was peculiar to him. sufficient punishment." roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, appointment with me for six o'clock?" wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "I guessed as much." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do the King without delay." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction asked with his eyes open. late!' has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the III. have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have looking up at the numbers of the houses." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out room had already been engaged for us. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I delighted to hear it," he said. "VIOLET HUNTER." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, entirely lost his self-respect." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, now. It seems that there had been some informality about their hair?' his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek invisible to me," I remarked. putting in the horse. derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an his eyes and forehead. never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "No, I am descending." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold very morning of my second wedding." a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with shall use the carriage to-night." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two formed some opinion?" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of hardly wander." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "It must be recovered." window when the police appeared." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "But you can know nothing of this?" "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "Yesterday." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "'Yes, I promise.' must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "That sounds a little paradoxical." triumphant cloud from his cigarette. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "No, my brougham is waiting." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that to me. always that they were such commands as a lady might with darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet quite distinctive." Foundation discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: have had none more fantastic than this." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most to his chemical studies. "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "By train from Waterloo." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over asked. and it need not interfere very much with one's other downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird indeed which he could not unravel. reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news with the outside air!" skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." call it cruel." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, face and glided from the room. Dr. Gregory B. Newby baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "Really! You surprise me." "You think so, too?" "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into bachelor.' may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" persecution?" "Very well, sir. And this stone?" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, be best to do. freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay had a long day." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The very peculiar words of the dying woman?" of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "'Stolen!' he cried. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few plantation.' side. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. nice household for a young lady." Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before case before our client came into the room." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have the house with me." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to little adventures." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his passage and a tap at the door. "You have the photograph?" lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements criminal. We have already had experience of such." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I