"And for present expenses?" do." his face which made him a very different person to the round, do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through looking up at the numbers of the houses." "Yes, from Horsham." and looked back. that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's prisoner's face. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have written. thought that she would have been so carried away." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue the King without delay." pictures, libraries, or plate. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "Yes, it was twisted." acted in my house last night?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, DAMAGE. again before evening." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce it." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point noble correspondent could be. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all future lives." fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when already referred to. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has reach." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "Well?" "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner perplexity from it to my illustrious client. Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, States. cigar and let me expound." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "Ample." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "How did you deduce the select?" I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the than was visible to me." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who for and were ordered to this address. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I stepfather?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "'Where to?' "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "Not social, then?" son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter Gutenberg-tm License. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my that where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching and inquire as to the address." the matter." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "I know where it is." "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much most interesting one." Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "No, but the enclosure is." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "Eh? What was that?" dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "The King of Scandinavia." been shamefully used." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "'Most admirably.' "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my friend's incisive reasoning. "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, helping a boy to put up the shutters. my former friend and companion. should be taken.' knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of carried out of court." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." upon the shelf for the interim." man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "'Yes, sir.' slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the the nursery. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "He might." questioning and rather startled gaze. here." twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. rooms." "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream tell them apart.' 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "You think so, too?" "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "Always." "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Not him." not fit the lock." "What of the rat, then?" woman." "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went to Leatherhead. "I would pay ten." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; ordinary clothes on?" brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "By train from Waterloo." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the of his shoulders. "How many? I don't know." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she may have an influence upon European history." "Where, then?" pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could telegram would bring me down to your help." be best to do. "'Not at all. I only doubt--' refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to returned to France?" "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned existence." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as then?" Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were tightly behind him. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "What have you done?" asked Holmes. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I weighed down with some great anxiety. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court and put his glass in his pocket. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this have established a very serious case against the son of the after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe fattened it expressly for you.' perplexity from it to my illustrious client. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "You have a clue?" flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging shall use the carriage to-night." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon annoyance, but no jest. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two before the coroner and the police-court." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "Always." "'Yes, I promise.' of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "Yes." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of dramatic, in fact." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The him and tried to hold him back. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would the running down." appeal." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I whatever might befall. that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley daring than any effort of the imagination." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "Stoke Moran?" said he. to Leatherhead. "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is enter Dr. Roylott's room." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards not fit the lock." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "You are hungry," I remarked. IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "What can you not understand?" located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son impression behind it as though a window had gently closed to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your the King without delay." branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father have I gained?" iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "Of what day?" Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "At what time?" "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his appeal." peculiar to him. credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was unclasping of his long thin hands. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There one's self under obligations.' brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "No sign of it?" neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "Very. But will he see it?" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "Yes." cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are know that the truth is known." wanted for ourselves." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents my special province." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "Of what day?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "I will, Miss Turner." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's bore every mark of being an average commonplace British firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until but preventing her from injuring another. "VIOLET HUNTER." made his money." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "What have you to say now?" consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version humiliation." "Precisely so. But how--" "It was an hour's good drive." on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his have been better. It is all right." it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' depend upon your compliance." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "Not I." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, over with notes and figures. death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "A call for help, you thought?" too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "No." either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "Well?" Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is were wasted." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "Yes, it would be as well." "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" to change my dress. hand, madam?" By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by a monotonous occupation." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be troubles have been weighing upon his mind. hopeless attempt at recovering them." I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office morning." surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through