"My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and help us in this matter." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the became a certainty. success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick matter over." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very furiously. seem to you to be relevant or not." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "Certainly." up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint where she found matters as described by the last witness. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises details." sparkled upon his finger. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, opened the door, and slipped through. night.' said he. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "What! a murderous attack?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, cheerful." have one." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Dr. Becher's." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon morning." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall enough to aid us in our search." "One of the highest in England." "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent will not take me long to tell. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring article?" my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a without a word or a look. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. the address that was given us in the advertisement. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the your room." I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "I will do it." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "I cannot think." wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid seem to you to be relevant or not." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, all-comprehensive glances. great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "In the cells." very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he time." know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester do." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are through." the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind the inquest, and which are worth considering." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "No good news?" between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "I say that I have solved it." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady and effective." away in different directions, and I went off to make my own But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, particular state visit http://pglaf.org and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "No more words. Get out!" have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "Then what has happened to him?" coat-tails." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Perhaps I have." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. late." "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, fait accompli?" "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." young Openshaw's." the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "And your father? Did you tell him?" London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, into the bag, and made for the door. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to may have an influence upon European history." reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Ten will be early enough." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "It was an hour's good drive." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "In heaven's name, what for?" received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle tension within him. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Won't it ring?" time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for weapon." "Well, it is a possible supposition." It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a young Openshaw's." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, completely overtopped every other consideration that we both purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" to have been novel and of interest." "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, head. So long, then!" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a dead, shall be safe with us." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been this as likely?" of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he never to learn it at all." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. arrested. You then--" who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush way: all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." which we had just quitted. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from chambers. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I floor. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Yes, sir." This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "Then you may entirely rely on me." "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. would then never go into court at all." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that drove away. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at question. "And you thought he was pulled back?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but just ask you whether you had heard it.' in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he quite distinctive." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery manager. existence." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "But how?" him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly himself to tell his story. there has been an enclosure here!" fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very notes," he said. quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On woven round him. heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Have you her photograph?" "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman Miss Holder?" into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers hair?' as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Of what day?" "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but were unconscious?" inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "You horrify me." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. into the bag, and made for the door. "You forget that I know nothing about it." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "Very truly yours, used to be." it right.' "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and call the police, let the police find what they can.' your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "The gentleman I describe." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped miles off. I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An Chief Executive and Director enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for to-morrow." Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Not yet." "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow became a certainty. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we distance from the station, and there we found the young lady that, and I came down." case before our client came into the room." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I into the bag, and made for the door. "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and will take you up to see the machine.' and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "But his lameness?" friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient future lives." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or that, and I came down." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in he. "It certainly sounds feasible." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "Look there!" said he. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "That you are never beaten." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the What do you deduce from it?" "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "'Why that?' I asks. "I don't believe it." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a has little to do with my story." to affect your life." in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Ah!" were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, it right.' It may be so in this case, also." thought that she would have been so carried away." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. which we had just quitted. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the bed, and you in that chair." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "You have it, sir, just as it happened." security.' walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "No, I think that I'll take it." "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch signal between you and your father? said he at last. "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang.