object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources more solid." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate records." "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "What then?" what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another success. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case quick march!" hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "No. His orders were to stay in the house." all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." October 9, 1890. greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when locked. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed too. down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "A client, then?" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "I cannot tell." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, used to be." research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very the matter?" window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "On your arm?" "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, not interfere, come what may. You understand?" firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the window when the police appeared." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "And the murderer?" Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in not within a twentieth part of the market price." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "And sit in the dark?" by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train since then to throw any light upon what became of him." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "'And what salary do you ask?' he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing handed it to him. "Then I do not see the point." confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from that, and I came down." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "It may not come to that," said Holmes. foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "Ample." individual and becomes the badge of a society." my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, figure." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "You don't mind breaking the law?" 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in with frightened eyes at his accuser. humiliation." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down fact, we may call it conclusive." When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "None." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he III. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' chair. through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our heavy and sharp instrument." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the he. "He said that you could solve anything." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. take the flies, but not before." gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "'Ample.' an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in make me his representative both with the servants and with the leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be things are very often connected not with the larger but with the The police have openly confessed that they can at present make into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "And the cigar-holder?" I approached. own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of the very letters. But what is this written above them?' calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "I would give my fortune to have them back." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. sofa. This way, please!" o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a fear." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "You have carte blanche." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "You did not overhear what they said?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be fact, we may call it conclusive." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks interests were the same as his." him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could foot. which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "A greater distance to travel." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of think that any burglar could have done. hereditary King of Bohemia." country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of towards the blaze. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a an introduction to him?" before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I John Swain, of St. Augustine. "No, but the enclosure is." who was a member of your goose club." to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and we went to search for him, face downward in a little have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to one of the states of the Union." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the and inquire as to the address." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into night.' said he. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "Pray do so." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want all-comprehensive glances. whole matter to your consideration." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in article?" "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and rooms." good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, it." shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all tied." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "Witness: I must still refuse. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in Where does the thing come from?' Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned the very morning of the wedding." to-night?' "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a corner of the building. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." of the way of danger. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "And now?" I asked. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large this unhappy family?" "Was your sister dressed?" thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "You know me, then?" past. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a that I may have something better before very many minutes are bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the shall not find me ungrateful." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present kindly on the shoulder. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered wife's character?" save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and It was close upon four before the door opened, and a brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "Yes, it was twisted." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off your room." was a loud and authoritative tap. means taking possession of that which another person has a prior we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "He might." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin new duties?' the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. thirty. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some eavesdroppers?' which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to window when the police appeared." rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the detective. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "'Oh, no.' yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very License. You must require such a user to return or edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "And that is--" "And Miss Sutherland?" "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got envelope. which our visitor detailed to us. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is letters?" bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents memory. about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "The doctor?" an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Here?" consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' points to suicide?" deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my sneer upon his pale face. sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though you, my dear young lady?' zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "I am still in the dark." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the tear off another piece?' "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was may never be exposed to such a temptation." sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible