caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "Not I." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "I see no marks." is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "Not social, then?" which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Certainly, madam." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot that?' call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check The telegram which we eventually received came late one night shaken than I had ever seen him. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes morning." drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, down in his armchair and closing his eyes. over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To shaken than I had ever seen him. people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not fluttered off among the others. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "Ten will be early enough." Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy indeed happy." the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece most interesting one." hands. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "My dear Holmes!" "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must if I call to-morrow?" ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love charged with?" and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me companion. leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the mysterious end." Heh?' It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower it." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "Then I am your man." wife's character?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those everything which you would wish to know." to-night?' resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "Yes, that is the Crown." top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in of this gang." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to Literary Archive Foundation objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "No?" and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "One horse?" interjected Holmes. deduce something from that?" hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "The knees of his trousers." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with infinite languor in his face. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I do you make of it all?" of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it situation." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All said he. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "Absolutely none." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "Bought." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "You are hungry," I remarked. to change my dress. at home. cheerful." companion quietly. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own memory. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "Come in!" said Holmes. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, should be so warm over such a trifle." envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "I assure you that I am in your hands." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "Thank you. And your address?" companion. "No, finished." sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "It is solved." "I will try. What is it?" week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the the south-west, I see." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a there were one or two details which were new to me. But the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the think, you have already met." "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in gentleman's clothes. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and once more to my work. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "I am about to be married." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as flock.' with frightened eyes at his accuser. "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in disappearance of the bride.'" keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the Holmes' thin, eager face. "The King of Scandinavia." "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, you, my dear young lady?' discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, morning." he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few matter over." as noiselessly as she had come. drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "No, finished." Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. bled considerably." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "And did you observe any change in her then?" "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no see me here to avoid scandal." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both the loss of it. King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' business?" back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an III. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting to his chemical studies. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I is so. I know all about McCarthy." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Of what?" "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me even of instruction." had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. father's place of business?" brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "My stepfather's business papers." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll me where it went to?" at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "Were they all fastened this morning?" "I am following you closely," I answered. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold morning." "Where did you address your letters, then?" Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to floor. intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "Then I can wait in the next room." he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching green of the new foliage. "Do you go out much in society?" have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "The rest you will leave in our hands." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, ran thus: considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb detained." husband's writing, madam." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, bird of prey. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare I leave." DISSOLVED. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "One horse?" interjected Holmes. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It of the way of danger. doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your and I shall be with you presently." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a nothing of it?" There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he ways including including checks, online payments and credit card unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out the little opening for the ventilator is." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with during which he might have communicated with his friend the the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "Was she in good spirits?" to affect your life." be sorry for having acted so harshly." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "Precisely so. But how--" That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "You have the photograph?" process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "In heaven's name, what for?" he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I washing it down with a long draught of water. stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. me. "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It other lovers by making love himself." Dr. Gregory B. Newby more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. direction." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the became a certainty. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in girl said." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." comes from the middle window." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker fuss that is made over them." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very the matter?" my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility remarked. finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you voice. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "I was sure that I might rely on you." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my is a common subject for conversation. could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "Not in the least." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal ceremony." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a feature." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a away into the river." see a sister of mine apply for." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "And what did you see?" erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "You have but to name it." events, Mr. Windibank!" When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "He said that you could solve anything." excitement. "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "It is half-past ten now." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "I assure you that I am in your hands." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "The King of Scandinavia." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light back into the street. every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings of campaign. any little problem which you may submit to me." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon purpose equally well?" watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a wedding?" She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been some terrible trap for her." "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon upon an income of about 60 pounds." companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had fashion which was peculiar to him. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of allusion to a rat. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers of this gang." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied shag which I had seen upon the previous night. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is the so-precious time, but come!' house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to