"When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "Why? What do you mean?" to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the attention." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "'And the work?' about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "It is very clear." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "Upon what point?" official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. Eyford at 11:15.' and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "I was mad--insane." "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, young Openshaw's." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' very peculiar words of the dying woman?" his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly prison!" lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to could not account in any way for the presence of the missing fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "But you were on a friendly footing?" "And leave your case unfinished?" deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "You horrify me!" Eyford at 11:15.' 11:15.' "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "I would pay ten." of the vacancies.' knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I the salesman. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there that put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "Certainly." "What office?" "What do you make of that, Watson?" carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very The police have openly confessed that they can at present make and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves bedroom door." the bed, and you in that chair." "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. that there was nothing in it, after all." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "Will you bet, then?" was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed behind me. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked said I. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in in his hands." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A London for the present?" had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb upon an income of about 60 pounds." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "But who is he?" had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "Yes." writers could invent nothing more crude." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in unprecedented a position." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Seven!" I answered. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker have had none more fantastic than this." The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting wall." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich article?" singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing the general public were present, then?" The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is was a perfect sample of the class. reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. she used." before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever strength of mind to control. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine himself to tell his story. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. to tell." have an American origin." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "'Where to?' had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "Yes, it was twisted." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by lamp in his hand. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "I think that I had better go, Holmes." statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to believe that I should never have any practice at all. "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" disappearance of these gems?" to-morrow." interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either ways including including checks, online payments and credit card before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and anything to do with the matter?" details." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect we went to search for him, face downward in a little have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might must compliment you." life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few conduct the inquiry." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but views." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters charged with?" "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "At the wedding breakfast." depend upon your compliance." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "Nothing." villagers almost as much as their master. villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty in this note: "You did not overhear what they said?" from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, vanished into the darkness. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing annoyance, but no jest. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, papers diligently of late, have you not?" same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at 1.E.9. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, papers diligently of late, have you not?" was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock disturbance in my wife." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of your room." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "The gentleman I describe." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she it right.' strong reason behind." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and as this. Pray let me have the details." "Yes. He waved his hands." "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The is worth.' other means.' have had none more fantastic than this." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and bird I ate is country bred." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. look upon these things in a different way." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was carried out of court." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a foot. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "No." "Yes, sir." "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in of Fenchurch Street." the inner apartment." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. the general public were present, then?" "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "No. What a strange idea!" suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine what I may call a really hard day's work." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "This photograph!" slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions http://www.gutenberg.net of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been against a man in the prime of life?" "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should taking in every detail of the apartment. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Won't it ring?" eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "Your French gold?" therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "'Certainly,' I answered. For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of http://gutenberg.net/license). desk. the south-west, I see." cup of tea. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the and the whole place is in a blaze." "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have light and attacked it." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "No." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the as he remarks, very much against the son." glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite infinite languor in his face. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert said I. his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his shoulder. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were should be so warm over such a trifle." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and rat could hardly pass through." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the over his head with a sweet womanly caress. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang a monotonous occupation." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. you in your example." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink the child." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. respectable self." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, you found me to-night--and running through the front room she listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, we went to search for him, face downward in a little should be taken.' stood on the top of it. souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind written. shaken than I had ever seen him. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you it." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the noble correspondent could be. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray lips." "But you have hopes?" For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "None." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to floor. answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "When did it break out?" scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr.