Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" the coronet in his hands?" "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his carpenter." I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, both be extremely obliged.' infinite languor in his face. its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety and a shock of very red hair. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "'Ample.' open." you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "One horse?" interjected Holmes. been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "Then you may entirely rely on me." with you alone." society." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face you do it in twenty minutes!' the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "If so, much may have happened between." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked few hundred pounds.' things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many floor. nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, my friend's incisive reasoning. the coronet at all injured?" do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" James Windibank. Voilà tout!" The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "I will try. What is it?" will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Stoke Moran?" said he. The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had any little problem which you may submit to me." temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., closing the door. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Stolen, then." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "'Very good.' mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other if I call to-morrow?" as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a suddenly upon us." details." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated learned something! Where are the gems?" delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of you give your casting vote to?" despair." locked. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the vague figure huddled up in the darkness. I nodded again. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices lectures into a series of tales." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." companion quietly. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his upon the sideboard." I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. waste of energy." thirty. "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Dirty?" between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have yards of it?' "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which the address that was given us in the advertisement. Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a Mrs. Toller serenely. assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's my former friend and companion. the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin union?" much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, appeared upon the scene." "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the I approached. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. all that?" "Do you go out much in society?" been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Yes." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the The police have openly confessed that they can at present make breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "No bad?" very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in place no limit on the sum I may draw." horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, ourselves in the office." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah retorted upon me, and I on you." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." crime. window when the police appeared." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the I. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "My photograph." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and what I may call a really hard day's work." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was I think that I could be of assistance to you." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six as this. Pray let me have the details." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a details should find their way into the papers. Inspector be.' "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a will be renamed. with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double I nodded to show that I had heard. "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying my room." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." in one or two places in England?' once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, your co-operation." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise how narrow had been my escape. have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "What?" We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and train from Paddington which would bring you there at about effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, directly by questioning you." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "And you thought he was pulled back?" if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. your equipment. examine." allusion to a rat. "The knees of his trousers." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "An enemy?" old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "Yes." equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed your most interesting statement." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon cost them two and thirty pounds." its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and to me. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands ventilator." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary you." and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no a monotonous occupation." wall." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "And how did you find out?" repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "What! Had he lost his wife?" confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very room?" "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "My last client of the sort was a king." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and visitors." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "Very much so." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son to talk it over. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "My last client of the sort was a king." plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United situation." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE were unconscious?" was used.' this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite characteristics, but those are the more obvious." row." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what His name is Francis Prosper." shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "But his left-handedness." "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were enter into my head. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had papers diligently of late, have you not?" much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch congenial hunt. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for one of them." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "I should like to see him very much." I leave." woman." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "I guessed as much." emerged. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" Munro.' "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little peculiar to him. the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot meant." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There ran thus: "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed exactly what you advise." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would union?" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "But who is he?" banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your subject to the trademark license, especially commercial gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and people don't know." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "'What do you call purely nominal?' money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "'It is locked up,' I answered. coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "One horse?" interjected Holmes. just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she October 9, 1890. presume?" paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and had a long day." "It is possible." which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our completely overtopped every other consideration that we both Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' that you wished to speak to me?' I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public returned to France?" and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We during the last few years, and there are many noble families to wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able electronic works room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, himself. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense neither fascinating nor artistic." beyond words. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "Yes, there are nearly always some there." the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup