air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "To ruin me." beyond words. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in recover the gem." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "Will you bet, then?" in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, directors, with the result that you have seen." friend's singular character. into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in answered with a sidelong glance. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility Arthur Conan Doyle the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "Very. But will he see it?" We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "But his lameness?" like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his I nodded again. foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "'And the work?' consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for go--none." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." this remarkable episode. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. business." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. way: trying to your nerves." me." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not points to suicide?" public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "It is his hat." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you cause to be." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." wife's character?" fire. You quite follow me?" who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." which I could not give. He asked for Alice. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point mystery." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own woman." patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "Entirely." indiscretion." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' most interesting one." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." depend upon my doing so.' it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very appeal." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, The telegram which we eventually received came late one night could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. the so-precious time, but come!' His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "No legal papers or certificates?" soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "At half-wages, in fact." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "Ah!" the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Eh? What was that?" Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time speckled band?" "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning it." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place to have that photograph." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "I am all attention, madam." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried page at http://pglaf.org "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "'Never,' said I. Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "In San Francisco, a year ago." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "What office?" relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain that before taking the final step I should like to submit the once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at present." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I ventilator." first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the and the whole place is in a blaze." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." corner of the building. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." Again Holmes raved in the air. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." business." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got here and I will read it to you: We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "But we can't all be." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. sound at heart." "And for present expenses?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. is a common subject for conversation. of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be sooner or later she must fall a victim. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little the morning and make my own way in the world.' "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the to Leatherhead. "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was fat-encircled eyes. one of them." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "'And the work?' "You will not go there first?" of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "It is to him that this trophy belongs." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "I cannot think." "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "He is dead," cried several voices. though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which six. Come in!" "But how will you look?" overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really pictures, libraries, or plate. despaired of." "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary tassel actually lying upon the pillow. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive back to my heart. With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their generous with you in money matters.' rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "'I shall certainly be there.' so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "Ha! you find it so?" places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You politicians who had been sent down from the North. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "'Not at all. I only doubt--' such attractions and accomplishments?' said I. deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Yes?" days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce or in danger--" admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to hardly wander." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending residence of the great financier. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to might help us?" "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and opportunities to fix the problem. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for leave you to your papers for a little." chance." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Deserted you?" my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell writers could invent nothing more crude." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "On your arm?" what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "What I expected to see." human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible back alive. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And true." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "What, then?" know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. invisible to me," I remarked. was shining brightly. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, my little problems." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm photograph?" such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "What then?" are, I think, all that we need." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were the inquest, and which are worth considering." highly," said Holmes. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the McCarthy." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew think, you have already met." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could a few minutes he said that it would be all right. forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, in. his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were a very grave face. and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, question you as to those details which seem to me to be most and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "But I have heard all that you have heard." the window, rose as we entered. to miss it." even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "And I say east," said my patient. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to gone. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at despair." "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "Nothing." heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "Your French gold?" quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. 1.E.9. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "Then, as to money?" my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It