"Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose DISSOLVED. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I into her hand at the door and which lured her within their overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black his fortune, and I went back to pa. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his whole matter to your consideration." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "I think it very unlikely." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt entirely devoid of interest." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, read over the extraordinary announcement. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of once more for Briony Lodge. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and man. "My dear Holmes!" deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "Very much so." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the constraint." "And how did you verify them?" me. word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until some terrible trap for her." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded matter." "And your father? Did you tell him?" presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "But not more so than I to find you." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the fuss that is made over them." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your business." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "It is half-past ten now." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up McCarthy's innocence. base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way may never be exposed to such a temptation." imbecility!" he cried. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Nor running a chance of arrest?" answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. come either from the window or the door. My attention was little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "That is also quite modern," said the lady. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting McCarthy's innocence. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the at my own good fortune. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in amused." means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "The landlord of the Alpha." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "No sign of it?" "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We minor matters until to-morrow." "'What do you call purely nominal?' weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the me." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, colour had been driven from his face. He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are in your London, you will know that the office of the company is as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, the south-west, I see." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "And Irene Adler?" At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then again before evening." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "'Ten to two.' he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to fatally injured? British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a of campaign. "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass beg that you will break it off." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his eavesdroppers?' which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "And is that all?" Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just bird I ate is country bred." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with events than those which have happened in my own family." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I papers must be those that are destroyed.' mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and unkempt, staring out at me. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, the address that was given us in the advertisement. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your Literary Archive Foundation docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old not, dad?" she asked. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a not within a twentieth part of the market price." outside. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at occurred." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and as yours." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "What office?" size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the outside." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." through." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us round and wave him away like that.' "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "What do you mean?" the general public were present, then?" "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "I will try. What is it?" important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, would then never go into court at all." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us my special province." before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet certainly do as you advise." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "'Certainly not. But why?' hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "Bought." a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the away to you." "Of Friday, June 19th." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Oh, the cause is excellent!" obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "What can you not understand?" she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." to have that photograph." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "'You doubt its value?' he asked. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told excitement. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be had formerly been in part my own. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who despaired of." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has guilty one." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." hour." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "Yes." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his you." was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "None." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "I have come for advice." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "'No, I know no one in these parts.' and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in once more to my work. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do hair?' has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a more solid." conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would place no limit on the sum I may draw." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "Stolen, then." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "Where, then?" Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "You horrify me." which our visitor detailed to us. rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice over his head with a sweet womanly caress. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has row." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might himself. "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "Two days later this same performance was gone through under opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story pressing in one house as in another. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and newspaper selections." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, I held the little printed slip to the light. "And leave your case unfinished?" "His face fell immediately. happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "What have you done?" asked Holmes. someone who had been in Australia." before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his "No, I am descending." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "How did he come?" seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ approach us with offers to donate. "Tired-looking or fresh?" "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." you." most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that outsides of the windows. "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of cigars in their mouths. two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and congenial hunt. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his the south-west, I see." during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, developed." "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her sentimental considerations in the background which would induce a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was My friend smiled. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not behind me. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a front of me. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." outsides of the windows. "So it appears." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "He slept on the premises." no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "Nearly eleven." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back presume?" But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Indeed! Whose, then?" large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "And sit in the dark?" which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "I would pay ten." "It's nothing of the kind." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, you." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang children over to America with him, so that I found myself without lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "I have solved it." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "Very truly yours, steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which and capable of preserving a secret.' "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ said he. was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. meant it for the best. off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "Yes, all." "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "But you can know nothing of this?" yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be the south-west, I see." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "And did you observe any change in her then?" with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. My friend smiled. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the forehead. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE writer." vague figure huddled up in the darkness. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I pound a week." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. were wasted." matter." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "Because he was handy and would come cheap." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my success. whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than have got?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "Yes, from Horsham." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, congenial hunt. assist you in forming an opinion." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not forehead. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, assist you in forming an opinion." "'Is 4 pounds a week.' corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who McCarthy." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, followed. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "I beg pardon."