me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. me where it went to?" "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "What, then?" upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to the coronet in his hand?" 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both that there was nothing in it, after all." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "Quite so." music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an know all about it," he snarled. practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really correct than the official force." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "I say that I have solved it." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his point our research must commence, and we will begin it by business." "When did it break out?" certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He children over to America with him, so that I found myself without business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman touch that coronet?' "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his prison!" fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not what do you think they found in the pockets?" the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "But you have hopes?" or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm that he will be back before evening." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp was lame." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "What, then?" gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," ready to-morrow?' pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up if only as a check to my own memory." "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "But how?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "That's no good." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who an introduction to him?" Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I "But how could you guess what the motive was?" there is a decided draught." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I said I. Street. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an look upon these things in a different way." "Where did he live, then?" some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." details." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "And how in the world did you find them?" "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he redistribution. him nearly every evening." chill to my heart. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours which we had just quitted. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low answered with a sidelong glance. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his house for five minutes.' occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just stood on the top of it. the address that was given us in the advertisement. by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than his wife has ceased to love him." with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "Pray do so." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "ARAT," I read. brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "'A dozen yards or so.' suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "How did you deduce the select?" Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he Henry Baker is a member." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his everything which you would wish to know." "Then the page we have seen--" "No. What a strange idea!" "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. front of me. "And I say east," said my patient. I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich Sutherland. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You overpowering excitement and concern. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce walking." "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than just ask you whether you had heard it.' law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "Why, it's a dummy," said he. believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had upon the shelf for the interim." bachelor.' horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out residence of the great financier. his wife has ceased to love him." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture searched, without anything being found which could incriminate of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever depend upon my doing so.' flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. with her." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the allusion to a rat. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and awkward doing business with an alias." A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business floor. from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, with you alone." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire McCarthy." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten purpose of examination. swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible look dissatisfied." "Yes." pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "Just look it up, then." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I correct than the official force." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and train.' "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "I see many objections to any such theory." very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment characteristics, but those are the more obvious." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was had died away into the silence from which it rose. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. results." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for the Assizes." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. was used.' facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "My stepfather's business papers." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "You know me, then?" The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," fish-monger and a tide-waiter." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; she to prove their authenticity?" beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "'How far from the body?' "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. which our visitor detailed to us. "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no unprofitable." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The is four-and-twenty." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "How did you deduce the select?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" new acquaintance to Baker Street. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over tension within him. "Then I can wait in the next room." Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "My dear Holmes!" shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and a monotonous occupation." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "How about poison?" are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I sentimental considerations in the background which would induce blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be Mary, has deserted me." your only hope of safety." all-comprehensive glances. "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly highroad, where all traces were lost. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. really the only notable feature about the thing." We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do examine." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No anything to a woman, for she would have her way." to take care of herself." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty sound at heart." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination said I. to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London I nodded to show that I had heard. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "She walked into the breakfast-room." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary footfalls from the street. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what shall not find me ungrateful." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was woven round him. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. you." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. gone. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the least a most suspicious remark." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to over with notes and figures. the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "Where, then?" unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "But he might be a bachelor." It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "And leave your case unfinished?" in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, out." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "That also I could fathom." "No, I am descending." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "'Most admirably.' singular points about the case. What did the police think of the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's empty. families. Now for the facts. "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "I cannot tell." "I am still in the dark." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in been anything against him. He had for years been known as a them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man fled together." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian existence." to-morrow." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and straighten it?" pound a week." future lives." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was at a side door. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there returned to France?" our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "Deserted you?" "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an vanished into the darkness. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. me." "But what is it you wish?" which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly think you a quite exceptional woman." me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a