sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock it. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "You know me, then?" Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass be there in time for your coming." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people horse could go." been shamefully used." direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me will not take me long to tell. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his that you can jump it.' may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "That sounds a little paradoxical." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "What!" he roared. stalked out of the room. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon trying to your nerves." found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, retorted upon me, and I on you." Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his during that time.' However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, not personally threatened." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." been able to understand it, in a very few words. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant in this way: Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was papers on the sundial.'" erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Nothing?" police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." he died? laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. Doctor, of the paper and the date." maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "My dear Holmes!" friend's singular character. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The maiden herself was most instructive." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." emerged. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress down in his armchair and closing his eyes. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a your co-operation." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal such person." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his States. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," ran thus: still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and burst out into a roar of laughter. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be your own bird, so if you wish--" "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and him nearly every evening." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual gentleman's clothes. "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of kind enough to tell me what I should do." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" "Perhaps we may make them less so." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from been with you?" hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, British peeress.'" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, touch that coronet?' arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' again, where I was soon asleep. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to eat it." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from a monotonous occupation." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among figure." uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "He is still with you, I presume?" fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits companion quietly. head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the read it out to me." of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both as yours." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had and glanced through. "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of ready to-morrow?' we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "I think it very unlikely." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. where she found matters as described by the last witness. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant bears upon the case?" fasten all the windows?" said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of fish-monger and a tide-waiter." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" obstinate." "I should wish to." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "How are you getting on?" difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a death." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we which are rolled in Rotterdam." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came October 9, 1890. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. death." "Here?" exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I Street. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle clang of the bell. and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "In what way?" asked Holmes. place no limit on the sum I may draw." the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy carriage. It was a chestnut." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my Street. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "Where, indeed?" "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future furiously. "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "Come in!" said he. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "He slept on the premises." recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out colonel looking down at me. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free from the brougham. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "Yes." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear digesting their breakfasts at home." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "It is very clear." round with crates and massive boxes. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with death." Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "Never." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "So I have heard." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a were unconscious?" than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more back alive. acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Yes, at the mines." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his chambers. appeal." photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. and shall probably return to London by the evening train." myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the IS deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew least a fellow-countryman. an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "How did you deduce the select?" opened the door, and slipped through. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a views." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella I have it here in my museum." "Was your sister dressed?" Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at of the one which your family is now devouring." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. present strange and interesting features that it is no easy overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her other, as fresh and trim as possible. his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, waste of energy." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "'Tell me all about it,' said I. said I. father's place of business?" done what I asked you, Jones?" you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that down in his armchair and closing his eyes. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "I answered that I had not. wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "My own seal." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "It is very kind of you." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside McCarthy." house for five minutes.' commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To cigars in their mouths. "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able when your master had gone out." just ask you whether you had heard it.' disappearance of the bride.'" matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps seen the man in the road." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. be.' few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect appeared upon the scene." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work indeed happy." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so McCarthy." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "No, thank goodness, she did not." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return you?' and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "What can you not understand?" it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point existence." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "That also I could fathom." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his to take care of herself." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "My own seal." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to use an arc-and-compass breastpin." strong and stiff." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "And you thought he was pulled back?" and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. name is different." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me upon an income of about 60 pounds." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he breakfast?" "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "How did you trace it, then?" course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a papers diligently of late, have you not?" was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "If so, much may have happened between." thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when as he folded up the epistle. "My dear Holmes!" my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of pity, because in other respects you would really have done very after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I of a light. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common nonsense.' have accepted such a situation. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "'No, I know no one in these parts.' death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. hand, madam?" counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Nothing?" fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "By no means." me where it went to?" "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not people don't know." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "'Yes, sir.' o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a upon a handsome competence. strength of mind to control. he bowed and left the room without another word. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "So I heard. You have him here?" about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "How can you tell that?" "The King of Scandinavia." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" go from here to the Strand." "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are