Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "Then, as to money?" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "Very. But will he see it?" her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "Pray tell us what has happened to you." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "'What would be the hours?' I asked. infinite languor in his face. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been which our visitor detailed to us. tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune the station." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the a little more before I quite committed myself. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in morning." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to several quiet little villages up there." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "And your mother is alive?" him to go away.' "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. the best of training." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "'Ten to two.' "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. of the way of danger. But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their are, and they are waiting for us." The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning wall." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and and effective." this poor creature." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. which our visitor detailed to us. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country never will be, entirely cleared up. first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now crackling voice. ready to-morrow?' civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's himself to tell his story. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "Not in a good cause." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "And Irene Adler?" remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black hour?' "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor McCarthy's innocence. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Pool. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a gbnewby@pglaf.org Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the think, you have already met." the loss of it. place, I think that there is good ground to think that the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Thank you. Pray proceed." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand about. the very morning of the wedding." I nodded to show that I had heard. stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "Yes, certainly." of them has the shutters up.' records." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Yes, at the mines." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my ago." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Entirely." served to weaken the effect. possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what lost his Christmas dinner." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to forebodings. "Thank you. Pray proceed." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It someone who had been in Australia." is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the papers diligently of late, have you not?" handed it to him. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are better grown goose." rose-bushes. Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying new duties?' array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell papers on the sundial.'" "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of chance." "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "'As governess?' "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, absolutely follow my advice in every respect." quite distinctive." secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "A confidential servant?" as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger For additional contact information: his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few the very morning of the wedding." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "'Ten to two.' even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. strong reason behind." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took may never be exposed to such a temptation." promised to bring home. As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net the Assizes." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover in him." "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "'What do you call purely nominal?' "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "Did you observe the colour?" already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a straightened it out again. solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the there were so many in the whole country as were brought together standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Here?" "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "But I have heard all that you have heard." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. developed." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "How did he come?" opened a pocket-book and took out a note. The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your to tackle the facts." secret." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, not interfere, come what may. You understand?" the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Frequently." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set or in danger--" "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "I cannot imagine." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "By no means." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." once more. "'Which dealer's?' lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "'Yes.' "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who something of him before." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "And how did you find out?" to affect your life." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "Which are?" uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual might help us?" "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." have been better. It is all right." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this bearing upon the case." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "I shall be delighted." bill, which interests me deeply." sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable and files of the old papers, following the future career of every VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it 11:15.' "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "'How far from the body?' the coronet in his hand?" "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by key turn in the lock." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing held up the lantern and gazed about him. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With before the coroner and the police-court." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "How do you know, then?" obstinate." "I was afraid that you were engaged." prepare for the new role I have to play." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two bonnet, and went out." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me crackling voice. go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." society." matter." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing for securing the situation." practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced prison!" "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his something of him before." tension within him. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and the child." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice everything which you would wish to know." you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last acquaintance?" "'Entirely.' "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "No." hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled ventilator." o'clock is it?" without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary been lifted and conveyed somewhere." already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may bore every mark of being an average commonplace British short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "What then?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "None." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed there." to-night?" I asked. "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and unprecedented a position." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been matter over." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see which it had come upon my father." But Holmes shook his head gravely. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left Edgeware Road. years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to certainly do as you advise." safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he following enigmatical notices: I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "That is unusual in a young girl." you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his breakfast?" process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent to-night?' nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "And how did you verify them?" it." which our visitor detailed to us. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable money should be paid at once.' clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding in my life." the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the father's young wife. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the shag which I had seen upon the previous night. in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It have established a very serious case against the son of the all?" who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having status with the IRS. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "Yes, but only for you and me." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "When did it break out?" finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how but preventing her from injuring another. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "'I have already given you my word.' soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Not I." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never I shall continue with my miserable story. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, silent! Oh, he will be silent!' appeal." "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in