first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "I answered that I had not. with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "'No, I know no one in these parts.' forehead. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "At the wedding breakfast." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Seven!" I answered. heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "It missed him, then?" this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an success. regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" I held the little printed slip to the light. Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "And help." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite the salesman. vault. "Frequently." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone is worth.' may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "Where is it, then?" Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "And how did you find out?" envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a the matter." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Did he not advertise?" "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke future lives." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert was not a bird to be seen there. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Well?" was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the Sutherland. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "Oh, fresh and glossy." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight over here." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "From his hat?" "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, meanly of me." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." gbnewby@pglaf.org "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End newspaper selections." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, points in connection with it which never have been, and probably If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" province." Eyford." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "But how?" sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no friend's singular character. finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it go back?" and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I them, and came down just as you departed. "You have a clue?" call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered think that any burglar could have done. especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss case before our client came into the room." use an arc-and-compass breastpin." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction use an arc-and-compass breastpin." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, that there was nothing in it, after all." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." himself to tell his story. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or and your relations to her." for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "You have carte blanche." "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Yes, it would be as well." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote the stable lane now." "My own seal." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "And it is--" "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the woman." "'You doubt its value?' he asked. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his went to the Alpha were town bred." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "Dr. Becher's." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, this unhappy family?" impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous father's young wife. forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "Witness: Nothing definite. little trying to do so much typewriting?" and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "Well, it is a possible supposition." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a to you." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Just look it up, then." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices three fields round his house, and there he would take his strong reason behind." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "No sign of it?" tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "But what is it you wish?" "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed matter over." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "10th. John Swain cleared. "You don't mind breaking the law?" again on its way. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to open." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. nonsense.' "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was conclusions. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "Yes." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her to-night?" I asked. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate ourselves in the office." "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "No good news?" most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" in his power. "Here?" One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this yards of it?' Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as success. "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There Munro.' "I cannot say that I have." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Really! You surprise me." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the conclusions. convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "I do." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "I cannot imagine." stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "It must be recovered." "The rest you will leave in our hands." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so whether it answered to the description of any of their reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle quick march!" second." them?" been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and of campaign. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "And how did you verify them?" colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had interested in these little problems, and since you are good "No." sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat our word." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your it." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is me." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was learned something! Where are the gems?" "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. I took the paper from him and read as follows: another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord face and glided from the room. foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I cannot think." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." a monotonous occupation." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." I shall communicate with you." they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Where, then?" The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." mystery may be cleared along those lines." the matter." could not have written that. It is the German who is so would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. companion imperturbably. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. cost them two and thirty pounds." instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is not personally threatened." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "Oh, fresh and glossy." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated call for protection in the marriage market, for the present a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the room?" swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy Countess of Morcar's?" "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "It must be recovered." garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. written, and locked the door of the office after me. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." beg that you will break it off." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, fled together." instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to the one as in the other." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands open." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' and capable of preserving a secret.' the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. married her." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think think that he is innocent?" aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at conclusions. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' and the colonel ushered me in. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the in the port of London." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and mysterious end." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. The summons was a brief and urgent one. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past felt?" place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. least a fellow-countryman. year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his breakfast?" electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "That you are never beaten." thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a Leave Paddington by the 11:15." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me there!' "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" the tragedy. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "When did she vanish, then?" outbreak?" impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little have an American origin." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the electronic works time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the always that they were such commands as a lady might with "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" During two years I have had three consultations and one small a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. could gather together that I was able to avert another public Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Two days later this same performance was gone through under murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no that, and I came down." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter your co-operation." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything My friend smiled. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." shoulder. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "And why in hopes?" "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you visitors." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "The doctor?" don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office vault. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There