think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Were they all fastened this morning?" to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "Nothing?" the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "Of what?" detained." orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "One horse?" interjected Holmes. bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "'What would be the hours?' I asked. populous neighbourhood." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. wall." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "And your mother is alive?" "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can lost his Christmas dinner." life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly fatally injured? Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that straightened it out again. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Yes." "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. have an American origin." The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." the bottom.' "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "I shall most certainly do so." contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was both be extremely obliged.' gone. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But it were putty." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "That is possible." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be lamp in his hand. late!' years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose his huge brown hands. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. definite end. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for clang of the bell. down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. and prosperity to your house. Good-night." American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his brain must have something in it." affection." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. chill to my heart. happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my the general public were present, then?" "Very much so." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "What steps will you take?" I asked. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. to go into your room and bar your shutters?" contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "I will not look." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "If I can be of use." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce them?" flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. tightly behind him. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "I have solved it." "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "The landlord of the Alpha." "On Monday." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "Yes?" "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand you." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an prison!" endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I works. See paragraph 1.E below. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I other lovers by making love himself." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "May I see it?" through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "But what is it you wish?" and glanced through. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "An accident, I presume?" brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could never to learn it at all." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to him nearly every evening." Holmes. "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned tail." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "And why?" letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all said Mr. Holder. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from me where it went to?" girl said." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. this man was intellectual?" the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the Count Von Kramm." "I will get her to show me." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a open." "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." Holmes' room. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden useful material for showing traces. The double line a little spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, DISSOLVED. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four that he will be back before evening." disturbance in my wife." the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to door?" where Mr. Fordham shows you.' never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to make me his representative both with the servants and with the confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those few hundred pounds.' upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in it right.' He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do said he at last. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," sooner or later she must fall a victim. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very away into the river." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "Who by?" remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "He slept on the premises." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth Foundation over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, geese which you supplied to the Alpha." back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very DAMAGE. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "What of the rat, then?" here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the touch that coronet?' for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time for securing the situation." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the might help us?" had died away into the silence from which it rose. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and the side-table." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not himself in a perplexing position. the tragedy. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the your bag." for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is indeed happy." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Have you it here?" dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a British peeress.'" "It is true that I have been generally successful." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "What, then, did Peterson do?" upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive the coroner come to?" With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I both be extremely obliged.' will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted hardly wander." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "What can you not understand?" without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "'Stolen!' he cried. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "But his left-handedness." "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is it were putty." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. residence of the great financier. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of some mystery and the punishment of some crime." but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, persecution?" and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to do." "'Then let me do so?' "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which closely." the side-table." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "It is very clear." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "My photograph." scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." think you a quite exceptional woman." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "You don't mind breaking the law?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which the one as in the other." that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to disappearance of the bride.'" Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this hour." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and whether it answered to the description of any of their "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "And how did he make his money?" inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, coroner's jury." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded unprecedented a position." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they believe that I should never have any practice at all. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter.