I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, the driver. his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "That is not always so easy." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to in this note: observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, giving me time to thank him. flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "'About the same.' "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "Was he the only applicant?" fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "I should wish to." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "Yes." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "That was it, sir." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go suspect him." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I will try. What is it?" tied." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from hurried by. served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "One of his hands." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to Lee, in the county of Kent." "Holmes, the busybody!" all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his suddenly upon us." secret." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" article?" views." "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a and wait." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their knowledge of the world." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "How did that help you?" "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias just ask you whether you had heard it.' in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' http://www.gutenberg.net which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "'Where could I find him?' at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got him nearly every evening." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may happened." unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are considering the formidable letters which were received by himself gone. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "I cannot imagine." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "In answer to an advertisement." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and upon the sideboard." to talk it over. have one." sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, have accepted such a situation. one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was the dangers which encompass me." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by as this. Pray let me have the details." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his your room." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her in this way: Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "Dark enough and sinister enough." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "That is possible." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it address. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church The police have openly confessed that they can at present make to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place your bag." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search again." As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some geese which you supplied to the Alpha." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the to have been novel and of interest." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "I see many objections to any such theory." constraint." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "No sign of it?" "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower question. His smile broadened. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally him nearly every evening." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that that I may have something better before very many minutes are "In the cells." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot front of me. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "9th. McCauley cleared. prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to floor. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "Not social, then?" office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a made him keep the appointment." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." beyond words. compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "What will you do, then?" been anything against him. He had for years been known as a One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "Yes." it? Did I buy the geese off you?" the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down formed some opinion?" Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. flock.' "Yes, that is the Crown." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of helping a boy to put up the shutters. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at the Friday. Was it to be in church?" machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. tell him that I know him to be innocent." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it God! What an exposure! What can I do?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "And why?" into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "Then he might have called to you?" base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his DISSOLVED. "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly you." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you during that time.' for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a fatally injured? all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the breakfast." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "What will you say?" It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her the King without delay." chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely the so-precious time, but come!' out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the strength of mind to control. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which nights." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your memory. what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by get her out of the way." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave garden below. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson recover the gem." "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, gives a meaning to it." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "No." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all very old mansion. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." hurried by. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and to talk it over. soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of a monotonous occupation." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my tail." to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a over here." that there was nothing in it, after all." dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "No, thank goodness, she did not." Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "'What would be the hours?' I asked. secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so have accepted such a situation. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "I am all attention, madam." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a to that open window." "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must could go. bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "Then what has happened to him?" have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just presented more singular features than that which was associated in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and which I could not give. He asked for Alice. through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric Serpentine Avenue. post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Where to?" consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The was keenly on my guard against him. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective enter Dr. Roylott's room." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Do you know him?" "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "My dear Holmes!" gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to his wife has ceased to love him." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "Witness: I must still refuse. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." highly," said Holmes. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old investigation." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "I cannot think." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "'And the work?' photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. the stones. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the that?' The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "But the mystery?" of your young ladies.' even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your been able to understand it, in a very few words. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "No more words. Get out!" "To an English lawyer named Norton." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the was feeling which was the fattest.' the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange as he folded up the epistle. in a friendly supper." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what she used."