heavily into it. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down and glanced through. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "Yes." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill crowd. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "But how did you gain them?" against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "In heaven's name, what for?" upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on could go. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "You have but to name it." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection bird I ate is country bred." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I hopeless attempt at recovering them." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept asked. "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up his eyes and forehead. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal views." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Yes, I have one waiting." the one as in the other." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded of the vacancies.' "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Nothing." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "The rest you will leave in our hands." "'Why that?' I asks. India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, house for five minutes.' see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my you." fat-encircled eyes. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up cigars in the box." "'Quite sure, dad.' purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever What do you deduce from it?" and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "I will, Miss Turner." vault. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four locked." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an him." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity gentleman's clothes. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "What steps will you take?" I asked. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over are, and they are waiting for us." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at business at Coburg Square is serious." extraordinary contortions. hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle I. "My dear Holmes!" memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. problems help me to do so." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had results." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face in darkness. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised deduce something from that?" My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "'Yes, I promise.' "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the me have 200 pounds?' Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in to tell." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the experiences." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "'And what salary do you ask?' "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and is so. I know all about McCarthy." Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "This photograph!" "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your instituted." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, brought there to personate someone, and the real person is you in yours." must be when I saw the door open.' "Awake, Watson?" he asked. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own morning." mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "But what is it you wish?" "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would lost nothing by them." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others humiliation." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have later, upon the night of May 2nd." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the way in." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass 1.E.9. tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can the warnings." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to call it cruel." little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I thin legs towards the fire. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "He slept on the premises." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on secret." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "No, thank goodness, she did not." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the went to the Alpha were town bred." "No, but the enclosure is." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the morning." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and anything to a woman, for she would have her way." said he at last. with the outside air!" "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "The best possible." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "Of Friday, June 19th." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." this as likely?" at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San cigar and let me expound." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Absolutely none." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "Of what?" from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a his forehead." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save detained." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like ventilator." had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "My dear Holmes!" "And leave your case unfinished?" "Who by?" "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "That sounds a little paradoxical." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him page at http://pglaf.org It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary into the bag, and made for the door. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, breakfast." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the was a loud and authoritative tap. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "What can you not understand?" hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long tell me that you intended to go into harness." definite end. although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "And why?" They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. Edgeware Road. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect Pool. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but for its centre. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no think that any burglar could have done. presented more singular features than that which was associated round and wave him away like that.' "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "My last client of the sort was a king." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you official police." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. handed it to him. "That's no good." for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in against a man in the prime of life?" be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his forehead. "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. you." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that she slowly sank and died without having recovered her in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was letters?" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But other, as fresh and trim as possible. "'Yes, it was gone.' "A call for help, you thought?" "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be to affect your life." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the wedding?" roused himself from his reverie. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the Street. lost his Christmas dinner." some terrible trap for her." the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "And it is--" rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the compunction about shooting them down." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary subject to the trademark license, especially commercial But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "10th. John Swain cleared. How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he room had already been engaged for us. that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in away in different directions, and I went off to make my own me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to strange features which were associated with the two crimes which very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than train from Paddington which would bring you there at about a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his started for the Temple to see my husband. to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "To an end?" will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "But the mystery?" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "No. What a strange idea!" is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "Did he not advertise?" "That sounds a little paradoxical." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William astonishment. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "And now?" He raised his hand. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own with the outside air!" "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. there were so many in the whole country as were brought together give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "On your arm?" noble correspondent could be. near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she to-morrow." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." redistribution. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, that he will be back before evening." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "I have come for advice." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the the tragedy. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. begun to whiten, even as mine has." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" said he. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in