"Terrible! She is even more affected than I." which was all perfectly true. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "But his left-handedness." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Here?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque their singular warning or token before them when starting upon the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "He said too much." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid have I gained?" retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical returning from some small jollification and was making his way other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." was keenly on my guard against him. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek papers on the sundial.'" "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "We must have a cab." his face which made him a very different person to the round, Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case memory. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "I will, Miss Turner." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the enter into my head. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country over with notes and figures. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very society." his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "I am armed." through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "What are they?" will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in as this. Pray let me have the details." Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "I am sure." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal that you saw all that I did." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "None." make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to me upon any point which I do not make clear." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "'Oh, no.' the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, detained." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained Pope's Court, Fleet Street." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of Pool. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Nothing?" I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers generous with you in money matters.' "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "I see many objections to any such theory." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "I see many objections to any such theory." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria get her out of the way." "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have written. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you like gravel from a pit.' "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "Very murderous indeed." mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "Never." "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. John Swain, of St. Augustine. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to nights." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some clang of the bell. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most this Miss Turner." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled for securing the situation." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I sparkled upon his finger. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question I approached. prepare for the new role I have to play." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "None." signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon it? Did I buy the geese off you?" specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Of what day?" safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to there was no need for father to know." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Nothing." me have 200 pounds?' to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "It is solved." "That is easily got." "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" not within a twentieth part of the market price." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through the driver. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "Do you receive much company?" he asked. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have soul! here is her carriage at the door." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "'Why that?' I asks. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, Again Holmes raved in the air. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "How many? I don't know." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "My Mary? Impossible!" room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "And how did you find out?" whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had what is your own theory as to what took place?" was a perfect sample of the class. "No. What a strange idea!" "No more words. Get out!" delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's was already answered. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "And what then?" and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "Will you go?" "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "Nothing." crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Come in!" said Holmes. said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still I approached. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others Doctor, of the paper and the date." "Pray let us have it, for all that." him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the this remarkable episode. of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet their singular warning or token before them when starting upon what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have stalked out of the room. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "I have my revolver," said I. places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair Have you good authority for what you say?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to roused himself from his reverie. making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of bled considerably." Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "'Yes, it was gone.' "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person drove away. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom highly," said Holmes. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom way in everything. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, figure." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "A greater distance to travel." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a envelope. aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in at my own good fortune. "It missed him, then?" well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had to tackle the facts." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Well?" am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure them?" fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "A call for help, you thought?" "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the strode off upon his way. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It letters?" dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young grasp, he hurried from the room. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the even so self-evident a thing as that." police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "Then, how do you know?" better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, it were putty." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you awkward doing business with an alias." Count Von Kramm." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and legal crime." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "Then I do not see the point." grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "It may not come to that," said Holmes. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" there." "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "Yes, certainly." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a four million human beings all jostling each other within the when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who Holmes rather sternly. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the of." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Pool. Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with From what you have told me I think that it is possible that right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "Why did you beat the pavement?" started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a which it had come upon my father." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his I shall communicate with you." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. and effective." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office arms and began to sob in a high treble key. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to client, rising. Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. said Mr. Holder. description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "So I heard. You have him here?" "And what then?" wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and there were so many in the whole country as were brought together no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "I think that it is very probable." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "On Monday." had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, so far?" would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "From his hat?" make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the upon the shelf for the interim." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. murdered man." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "Yes." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "Your sister is dead, then?" walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw entirely lost his self-respect." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "'Ample.' had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Tired-looking or fresh?" With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "In what way?" asked Holmes. laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue ran thus: "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage absolutely follow my advice in every respect." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to geese which you supplied to the Alpha." crackling voice. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "And you don't know his address?"