face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new was already answered. Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the morning." "Where did you address your letters, then?" many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was strong and stiff." brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his gigantic client. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle the stable lane now." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my pressing in one house as in another. There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "'Never,' said I. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. events than those which have happened in my own family." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of third from London." suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several system of imprisonment?" violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "No." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never cigars in the box." "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." instincts rose up against that laugh. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have you came in." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may posted to-day." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "Here?" the stable lane now." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "You will not go there first?" Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to is so. I know all about McCarthy." tapping his fingers upon the table. "Where, then?" the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "Your French gold?" To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, pressing in one house as in another. companion imperturbably. friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old one else, I think." amused." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "Your French gold?" Mary, has deserted me." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger garden below. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel possible that we could bring him back to her? "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "No, distinctly professional." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "'I am sure if I had known--' "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to clanging. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features you?' half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very lamp in his hand. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, business at Coburg Square is serious." constraint." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful charge against him will break down." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face views." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. note?" "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "Yes, it would be as well." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "Not social, then?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he information in his hands the value of which he did not himself and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a your sleep?' back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if placed his cuttings. the child." "He is dead," cried several voices. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that enter Dr. Roylott's room." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, relation between them, and what the object of his repeated the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR I approached. "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently just called myself is not exactly my own." cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "What! You do not mean bodies?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his attention." Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were least a most suspicious remark." in his hands." "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very strength in the others." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "How many? I don't know." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the http://gutenberg.net/license). "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since them present such singular features as the strange train of "How did you trace it, then?" immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "And how did you verify them?" this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "Her father is very rich?" delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been writer." very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two fire. You quite follow me?" should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of round and wave him away like that.' that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "Thank you. And your address?" that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that there in twenty minutes." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The happened." threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal to Leatherhead. and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each bears upon the case?" "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was tear off another piece?' International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, have one." his forehead." "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he mystery." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "She will not sell." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of the window, rose as we entered. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "Only as much as we can deduce." "Here?" aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "What, then?" "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "I have come for advice." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "That's no good." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his happened." impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "'As governess?' dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "'As governess?' "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "I see many objections to any such theory." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been asked. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "It goes to the housekeeper's room." that you can jump it.' thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the Holmes rather sternly. Lee, in the county of Kent." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her rooms." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could strode off upon his way. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "A confidential servant?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would way: his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, arrested. You then--" hands. common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "But how?" it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I where Mr. Fordham shows you.' moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a shoulder. "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his The events in question occurred in the early days of my such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in and your relations to her." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him stalked out of the room. felt?" number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in What do you deduce from it?" assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a instituted." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its sparkled upon his finger. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I your troubles." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "And why in hopes?" when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his conceal it?" face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall indiscretion." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly our word." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "Will you bet, then?" with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "Witness: Nothing definite. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "I would pay ten." cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but a good hundred miles off by now." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "But who is he?" a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and never to learn it at all." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "My photograph." "There are none." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you door?" trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "Was there a secret marriage?" the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful plantation.' all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "No, finished." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, memory. evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "'Yes, it was gone.' "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 gives a meaning to it." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." you want, then?' morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my will take you up to see the machine.' "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," bachelor.' of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "At what time?" delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." fattened it expressly for you.' you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one of campaign. the little opening for the ventilator is." James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "Yes, it would be as well." when you have done it." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the compunction about shooting them down." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months and your relations to her." writing, and yet I know it well." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east behind me. "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we