evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a http://gutenberg.net/license). he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal prove to be little relation between the different incidents of building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Holmes. "She walked into the breakfast-room." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My existence." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have you do it in twenty minutes!' hereditary King of Bohemia." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. delirious. "Her father is very rich?" wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all affair. unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was she to prove their authenticity?" the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's might help us?" "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you will find little credit to be gained out of this case." knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "And what did you see?" or in danger--" he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement and shall probably return to London by the evening train." of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "What then?" he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her begin with, and I had not got mine yet." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be it." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down that he has suffered." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "Yes." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "Of what day?" The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet DISSOLVED. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her if I call to-morrow?" note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of returned to France?" It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is colonel looking down at me. for its centre. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "That is possible." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his present strange and interesting features that it is no easy doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The looking up at the numbers of the houses." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "I have solved it." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though him!" "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "'There is a drive, then?' "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "What office?" in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." unclasping of his long thin hands. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger take the flies, but not before." present." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "I cannot think." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his showing my impatience. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "'Yes, it was gone.' Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as chemical work which was so dear to him. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms passage and a tap at the door. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only shall not find me ungrateful." "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "I should like to see him very much." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "But I have heard all that you have heard." Farm upon the left." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "How long did she speak to this Alice?" About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "My last client of the sort was a king." character. see me here to avoid scandal." yards of it?' Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and cost them two and thirty pounds." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "The Cedars?" seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "Very murderous indeed." "Imitated." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "In heaven's name, what for?" enough to aid us in our search." might have a private word with us. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "You think that he is dead?" "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "When did she vanish, then?" other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a his forehead." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the fear." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has in this way: idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened will be renamed. without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face wedding?" this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, remarked. little trying to do so much typewriting?" equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" Heh?' amused." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And of his shoulders. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I shag which I had seen upon the previous night. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "What! a murderous attack?" hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is conversation I have gathered that they have been married about the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "Yes." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "You have compromised yourself seriously." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "'Which dealer's?' opened a pocket-book and took out a note. back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. to you." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" yet." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand wedding?" pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no fattened it expressly for you.' with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We if I call to-morrow?" is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local upon the shelf for the interim." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has brain must have something in it." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon always that they were such commands as a lady might with "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly stalked out of the room. has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, out of this horrible affair." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "What I expected to see." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "To ruin me." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped been." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in in. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "You will not go there first?" that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice not come at once?" however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." in darkness. case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. waste of energy." You want to know what became of those geese?" is so. I know all about McCarthy." "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always the devil!" King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "'Yes, I promise.' brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from cause to be." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this closing the door. come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt made him keep the appointment." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. which are rolled in Rotterdam." there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by to change my dress. "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after papers must be those that are destroyed.' charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as lamp. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems You can understand that this register and diary may implicate stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "Where is it, then?" "He might." "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can feature." vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "Where did you address your letters, then?" despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our Leadenhall Street--and--" once more on the important position which you have been fortunate many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "'Which dealer's?' "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had touch that coronet?' "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "Yes, I have one waiting." "It was an hour's good drive." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb photograph a cabinet?" fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of hopeless attempt at recovering them." "How did that help you?" "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "It is very kind of you." been deceived." lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in bill, which interests me deeply." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Then, as to money?" equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that Stoke Moran." The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I salesman. been lifted and conveyed somewhere." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in residence of the great financier. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "You did not overhear what they said?" shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could some place of shelter and let the county police know what has questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you spare." "BALLARAT." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "It was a confession," I ejaculated. ran thus: which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "I will, Miss Turner." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I would pay ten." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the