Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might Holmes rather sternly. sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other weapon." three fields round his house, and there he would take his betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "I guessed as much." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "In heaven's name, what for?" "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for shoulder. "Quite so." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the I shall continue with my miserable story. man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, yards of it?' and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "They are typewritten," I remarked. sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "That is not always so easy." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an to you." legal crime." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project mystery may be cleared along those lines." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Holmes, the busybody!" reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Here?" Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Deserted you?" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent least a most suspicious remark." "Quite so." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his father's young wife. "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and trifles." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She unprofitable." occurred." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "It may not come to that," said Holmes. money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London foresight and the moral retrogression?" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and with you?" We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the to Leatherhead. "She will not sell." "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which one which it was hard to resist. was a loud and authoritative tap. news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "May I see it?" side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open bearing upon the case." the Red-headed League." nonsense.' I shall continue with my miserable story. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower closing the door. giving me time to thank him. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand thought that she would have been so carried away." Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt wedding?" me upon any point which I do not make clear." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is everything which you would wish to know." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at spare." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the what these perils are?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted posted to-day." "An accident, I presume?" an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though people don't know." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "Always." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. had formerly been in part my own. stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the all that?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." system of imprisonment?" more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "I would give my fortune to have them back." "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of Holmes." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we had died away into the silence from which it rose. weary and pale-looking. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether the running down." "In the cells." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in prepare for the new role I have to play." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "No, I think that I'll take it." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would as he folded up the epistle. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "What of the rat, then?" believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no husband's writing, madam." of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door your equipment. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. room?" "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for extraordinary contortions. brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "Dark enough and sinister enough." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "I will try. What is it?" Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit carriage. It was a chestnut." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. the ceiling. "'I am sure that I do not know.' "And why in hopes?" his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "Do you know him?" conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. not come at once?" when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by hand, madam?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all what I may call a really hard day's work." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and of a light. character. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Yes?" "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he instincts rose up against that laugh. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Stolen, then." "'I shall certainly be there.' a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "I have a cab outside." miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should prepare for the new role I have to play." "'Never,' said I. "But you have hopes?" practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it and looked back. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being distance from the station, and there we found the young lady answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "Murdered?" are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "In what way?" asked Holmes. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "And you don't know his address?" "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened which are rolled in Rotterdam." revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always me. You must get home instantly and act." across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch thin, with a long, sharp nose?" the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Imitated." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "But how could you guess what the motive was?" that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in asked. "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a you?" science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I a good hundred miles off by now." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but through." over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved where we are going." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning note?" A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss asked with his eyes open. in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you character. him to be an active member of the medical profession." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There might help us?" invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or but preventing her from injuring another. the coronet at all injured?" plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been gentleman's clothes. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be the roots. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "What!" he roared. you." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "But she could not love him." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "By all means." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was who was a member of your goose club." robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was was once confined in the cab my mission was practically force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your even of instruction." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms she slowly sank and died without having recovered her course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "You think that he is dead?" sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal the house with me." at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, in the port of London." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "That sounds a little paradoxical." This is what he says: round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, really the only notable feature about the thing." gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on there were so many in the whole country as were brought together of his shoulders. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates delighted to hear it," he said. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose evidence," I remarked. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his a few minutes he said that it would be all right. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite several quiet little villages up there." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without for securing the situation." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It public press." presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the fat-encircled eyes. "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of were wasted." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." some terrible trap for her." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "I am to be neutral?" widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, to-night." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his astonishment. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his row." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "I beg pardon." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that and a shock of very red hair. you in your example." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put back into the street. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "Yes, sir." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Why, it's a dummy," said he. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that trifles." danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was union?" the best of training." "Yes, it was twisted." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Young McCarthy must be got off, however." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were she to her own house. 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