triumphant cloud from his cigarette. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "No, but the enclosure is." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." him, that man would not have given me such complete information "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly arrested. You then--" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just locked. II. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was away into the river." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case know all about it," he snarled. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. interested in these little problems, and since you are good hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "But of what society?" "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, problems help me to do so." "His face fell immediately. "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' business?" "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of beyond words. the stones. "Who was the criminal, then?" inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "Then he might have called to you?" "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "What is it?" "What will you say?" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Yes, at the mines." there was no need for father to know." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "My dear Holmes!" "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the been able to understand it, in a very few words. "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and a good hundred miles off by now." official police." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "That also I could fathom." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to putting in the horse. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. words came to my lips. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." despaired of." your equipment. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "You have it, sir, just as it happened." prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that house for five minutes.' "But how did you gain them?" This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed look upon these things in a different way." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was awaited us upon the table. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. cigar and let me expound." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out as yours." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, exactly what you advise." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "Well, it is a possible supposition." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "No bad?" "How did you trace it, then?" Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" one of the states of the Union." first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "It is to him that this trophy belongs." asked. "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't carriage. It was a chestnut." "It came here." conduct the inquiry." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "No bad?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Where, then?" rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured flock.' understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole gone. mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, stepfather?" the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "What! a murderous attack?" London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt the King without delay." important." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her lamp. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up III. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and bird I ate is country bred." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. cigar and let me expound." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the prison!" useful material for showing traces. The double line a little upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If companion quietly. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "And what then?" "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything had no one to advise her at such a crisis." way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, grasp, he hurried from the room. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. towards the blaze. "By no means." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in that his wife has ceased to love him." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with if I call to-morrow?" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a nothing with him." "And how?" Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall direction." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. morning." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "I am sure." "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the them present such singular features as the strange train of the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one dead, shall be safe with us." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch should be taken.' "'And the work?' past. "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "Because he was handy and would come cheap." careless servant girl?" vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so relief. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort passage and a tap at the door. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked quickly through a disagreeable task. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though Young McCarthy must be got off, however." between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely questioning and rather startled gaze. "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both III. anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "Yes." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY "What then?" it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time danger is over." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Never." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "And how did he make his money?" push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "But how did you gain them?" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to you came in." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in morning." "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel and wait." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the side-table." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as Lestrade of Scotland Yard." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "How can you tell that?" "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had been able to understand it, in a very few words. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the and your relations to her." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear out of this horrible affair." the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from crime. "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I than was visible to me." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing Dr. Gregory B. Newby have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who the salesman. is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "Always." between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Nothing." wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "The vanishing of the lady." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a this poor creature." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But room?" "'Never,' said I. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" there has been an enclosure here!" younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "Will you go?" the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy said he at last. conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Edgeware Road. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down new acquaintance to Baker Street. murdered man." "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the thirty. grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "That is unusual in a young girl." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted had died away into the silence from which it rose. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Yes, it was twisted." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what presented more singular features than that which was associated if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily out of this horrible affair." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had other lovers by making love himself." dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided is now desirous of getting those letters back." to tell." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if American. Then who could this American be, and why should he cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "I have solved it." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. occupations.' "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a works. See paragraph 1.E below. "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "Then I can wait in the next room." that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the think you a quite exceptional woman." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an to take care of herself." the general public were present, then?" Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "'Yes, I promise.' instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of rooms."