"Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "By all means." to his chemical studies. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Very much so." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, you." question," said Holmes, smiling. papers on the sundial.'" burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning License. You must require such a user to return or was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "But I have heard all that you have heard." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the weigh very heavily upon my conscience." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our which we had just quitted. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you lamp in his hand. Heh?' "'There is a drive, then?' conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, your troubles." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to hands. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from awkward doing business with an alias." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the the coronet in his hand?" Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Texas, I think." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. IS since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I arms and began to sob in a high treble key. the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his happened." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he *** START: FULL LICENSE *** or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very have been better. It is all right." "I have seen the police." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all of this gang." the bed, and you in that chair." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees the driver. "I cannot tell." have established a very serious case against the son of the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone along the entire front of the house, with three long windows was lame." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even occupations.' astonishment. chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he of." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The province." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems long narrative. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was and files of the old papers, following the future career of every new acquaintance to Baker Street. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the himself to hunt down. from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took guilty one." child?' for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "Where, then, is my wife?" prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "How did that help you?" public press." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "That is unusual in a young girl." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "In which, sir?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "And how did you verify them?" that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "And help." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly your bag." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was looking up at the numbers of the houses." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Why? What do you mean?" be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering tension within him. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "Where to?" surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "It certainly sounds feasible." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his ventilator." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. child?' "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." in this note: solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "None." Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Where to?" opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "'A dozen yards or so.' though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of interested in these little problems, and since you are good preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with be. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "Game for a morning drive?" pierced for earrings?" "Not him." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "Yes?" saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, his face. part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm you." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "So it appears." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon touch that coronet?' "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "But I am all in the dark." "Holmes, the busybody!" claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "The King of Scandinavia." "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Witness: It was. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. desk. "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable intrusion of other matters." 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs you." lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the voice, changing her seat as requested. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" the loss of it. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Yes." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting stammered. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little drove away. orange pips. of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the read over the extraordinary announcement. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I client, rising. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "And on what day did he meet his death?" are, and they are waiting for us." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right and the colonel ushered me in. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "One of the highest in England." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon waste of energy." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "Then you may entirely rely on me." generous with you in money matters.' and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all into the room. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in place no limit on the sum I may draw." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming salesman. "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who come either from the window or the door. My attention was sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came The telegram which we eventually received came late one night daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle always that they were such commands as a lady might with that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Pray continue your narrative." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "Then he might have called to you?" in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I when your master had gone out." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The gone before you can get him to hospital." remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the read it out to me." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "Why did you beat the pavement?" temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "Married! When?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and in a very precise fashion." even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "Very much so." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a looking up at the numbers of the houses." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the events than those which have happened in my own family." the child." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short ways of our fellow-men." "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was McCarthy's innocence. amused." "Then you may be so with me." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "A thing like a cleaver," said he. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents This is what he says: agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you me have 200 pounds?' while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "Yes." to a more successful conclusion." he. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand to have that photograph." "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that the driver. her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria the warnings." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the tell him that I know him to be innocent." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 the ceiling. attention." which our visitor detailed to us. gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Certainly." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner detective. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his then?" "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "Was your sister dressed?" instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "It goes to the housekeeper's room." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "But I am all in the dark." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the shall not find me ungrateful." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in Foundation Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "Then, as to money?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." despaired of." down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in intimate personal affairs in this public manner." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with three fields round his house, and there he would take his "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his