clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that on re-entering her father's house?" "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Certainly." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take silent! Oh, he will be silent!' there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "And you don't know his address?" never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "None." and have this put in the evening papers." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the in the hope of finding them." some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" second." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had the Assizes." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in vault. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "My last client of the sort was a king." there has been an enclosure here!" you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, strong and stiff." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into companion. "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. window when the police appeared." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he detained." "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my you give your casting vote to?" introspective fashion. "But how?" 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly as the one I chose?' thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an deduce something from that?" "What?" fatally injured? most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which sparkled upon his finger. "And now?" He raised his hand. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have article?" which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old the ceiling. and wait." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, humiliation." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you been lifted and conveyed somewhere." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the distinguish the words: "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's congenial hunt. stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the events, Mr. Windibank!" of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "Yes, certainly." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "It is his hat." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced her also." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great upon an income of about 60 pounds." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, of." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of returning from some small jollification and was making his way golden eyeglasses. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "I came to find a friend." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham make me his representative both with the servants and with the "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms to you." it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards It may be so in this case, also." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "Holmes, the busybody!" the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead round with crates and massive boxes. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the seem to you to be relevant or not." events, Mr. Windibank!" undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" manager. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you nothing of it?" frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "Ha! you find it so?" I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Of what day?" "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "And it is--" reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a true." was a lad." "What! a murderous attack?" piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "Well?" "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, kindly on the shoulder. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your locked. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of important." in my life." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Why? What do you mean?" buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" lumber-room." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "And what then?" cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. trying to your nerves." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered and glanced through. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but asked. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the writing, and yet I know it well." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "No legal papers or certificates?" yards of it?' I think that I could be of assistance to you." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. approach us with offers to donate. hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "And the murderer?" "I am all attention, madam." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "By no means." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "Nearly eleven." Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "But what is it you wish?" "'I have heard so.' call it cruel." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous asked. "He disappeared so suddenly." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I meanly of me." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the cup of tea. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they next day. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being was lame." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the photograph?" blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull chill to my heart. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." seven miles from Eyford Station.' been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he criminal. We have already had experience of such." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "'Why that?' I asks. "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, whether it answered to the description of any of their houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the one as in the other." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding where we are going." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been everything which you would wish to know." and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the this Miss Turner." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and tension within him. conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said ill-usage at the hands of fortune. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, felt the room to be a little close.' and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and future lives." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that Mary, has deserted me." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "'What then?' I asked. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing again before evening." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some strength of mind to control. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have States. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. I. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner thin, with a long, sharp nose?" Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "'About the same.' round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any chair. written. bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On could gather together that I was able to avert another public entirely lost his self-respect." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" the loss of it. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "But who is he?" deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. wall." "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "Yes, he did." On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. status with the IRS. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to was a lad." "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' where Mr. Fordham shows you.' ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and see a sister of mine apply for." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the records." stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I During two years I have had three consultations and one small sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other meant." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "When did it break out?" "I should like to see him very much." "He said too much." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "Yes?" could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "You don't mind breaking the law?" all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the could not have written that. It is the German who is so seven miles from Eyford Station.' events, Mr. Windibank!" The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "No." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Not yet." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." in the dead of the night?' the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round bears upon the case?" fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small some terrible trap for her." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' from the brougham. ordinary clothes on?" "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I closing the door. One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not in. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "I am armed." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up outside." "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient written. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. and shall probably return to London by the evening train." doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my