Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been your sleep?' "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Ah, but I was recommended to you." http://www.gutenberg.net "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "That is easily got." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at matters immensely." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful DAMAGE. I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of and it need not interfere very much with one's other Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have over his head with a sweet womanly caress. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. charged with?" in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a http://www.gutenberg.net view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where over with notes and figures. "They are typewritten," I remarked. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." fait accompli?" elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "Yes, from Horsham." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." him and tried to hold him back. yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "I would give my fortune to have them back." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "Do you go out much in society?" you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. outside. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime himself in a perplexing position. "But how did you gain them?" the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "No." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "I was afraid that you were engaged." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just there were one or two details which were new to me. But the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. his huge brown hands. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round Surrey." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander geese which you supplied to the Alpha." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his strength in the others." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must is so. I know all about McCarthy." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "I don't believe it." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the see me here to avoid scandal." head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Your presence might be invaluable." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "His face fell immediately. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said *** START: FULL LICENSE *** glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, telegram would bring me down to your help." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, easy-going way." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "In heaven's name, what for?" The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "Won't it ring?" "Then you may be so with me." to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "How did you deduce the select?" "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, points to suicide?" her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never out of this horrible affair." makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "What?" high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "And when will you call?" closing the door. Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "Oh, the cause is excellent!" appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "I am all attention, madam." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no existence." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I had died away into the silence from which it rose. what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I will be renamed. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "Not him." beg that you will break it off." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of this truth that in these little records of our cases which you day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had roused himself from his reverie. matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower that I may have something better before very many minutes are of his shoulders. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of detective. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the time." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "And now?" He raised his hand. was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "You think that he is dead?" the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter that the gas is not laid on in his house?" place of silver." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and me what he had done with the three missing stones. really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a not as remarkable as your advertisement." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "I have seen the police." "One?" in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the tear off another piece?' "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "'Certainly not.' "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, putting in the horse. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the been deceived." constraint." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was weighed down with some great anxiety. connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Were they all fastened this morning?" have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are I think that I could be of assistance to you." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the you?" "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client get the tickets." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or then?" and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. directly by questioning you." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Will you bet, then?" "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "That is easily got." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an you." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which he. "I cannot say that I have." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to be there in time for your coming." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "Yes." "It surprised me." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "I am all attention, madam." "'I have already given you my word.' Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband in the hope of finding them." "I have my revolver," said I. "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, shall not find me ungrateful." "What!" he roared. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps new acquaintance to Baker Street. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "Who by?" He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let me upon any point which I do not make clear." "A call for help, you thought?" miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some Pool. "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. What do you deduce from it?" of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek relation between them, and what the object of his repeated written. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." are, I think, all that we need." Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, in this note: "Have you her photograph?" despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said do you make of it all?" to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. his knees, staring into the fire. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our Eyford at 11:15.' contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' means taking possession of that which another person has a prior who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "No, but the enclosure is." why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to From what you have told me I think that it is possible that the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my Holmes rather sternly. "You are all wrong." "What can you not understand?" ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "Yes." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. them present such singular features as the strange train of For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you walking." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally thin legs towards the fire. desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he had a long day." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you cup of tea. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she hand, madam?" post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have burst out into a roar of laughter. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "But of what society?" "'Certainly,' I answered. quick march!" he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you I held the little printed slip to the light. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after DISSOLVED. examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "My dear Holmes!" d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "This photograph!" him!" once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly that you can jump it.' Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Deserted you?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up shadow pass over his face as I spoke. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I disappearance of these gems?" tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we and no precautions can guard against." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this of the efforts of the United States government and of the better Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such woven round him. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "Where, then?" may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "'And the work?' was a loud and authoritative tap. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no becomes even more simple." called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "'Quite sure, dad.' "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "What can you not understand?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he