better in every way that they should make their position a little gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, will be renamed. "You have a clue?" 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "No, distinctly professional." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in outsides of the windows. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than grasp, he hurried from the room. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." late!' up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their in the port of London." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, intrusion of other matters." was a lad." "About a month then." It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped one's self under obligations.' "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. The events in question occurred in the early days of my affection." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Did you observe the colour?" to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as the stones. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "Witness: I must still refuse. is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "He might." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at in. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: like gravel from a pit.' Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an up this clue while it is still hot." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "At the wedding breakfast." "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what money should be paid at once.' "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." had formerly been in part my own. feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest matter." hand, madam?" developed." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but pierced for earrings?" "'Yes, sir.' American. Then who could this American be, and why should he top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master row." continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's his knees, staring into the fire. me." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" it were putty." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able cigars in their mouths. station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and went to the Alpha were town bred." without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "But his left-handedness." Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the overpowering excitement and concern. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other appeared upon the scene." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do newspaper selections." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet cigars in their mouths. time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "I have a cab outside." dramatic, in fact." married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was head. So long, then!" free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "No more words. Get out!" My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "Yes." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were train.' cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and cup of tea. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly hurried by. "I will try. What is it?" so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room his wife has ceased to love him." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew tied." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of Holmes rather sternly. "But you have hopes?" these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself down in his armchair and closing his eyes. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the tension within him. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "She showed me, as I told you she would." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "My stepfather's business papers." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, forebodings. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, occupations.' this man was intellectual?" absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, back to my heart. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I out." had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a disappearance of the bride.'" horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "Then he might have called to you?" him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private and wait." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "I will, Miss Turner." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, hour?' drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs people in all walks of life. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full had no one to advise her at such a crisis." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I has little to do with my story." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "The gentleman I describe." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when this remarkable episode. thin legs towards the fire. McCarthy." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "It is solved." more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "It is solved." "I am about to be married." "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this sooner or later she must fall a victim. writer." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "'Entirely.' in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "But how will you look?" The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon system of imprisonment?" "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are putting in the horse. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Come in!" said he. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my note?" chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to he. "'What, the red-headed man?' some city in a dream. side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with to go into your room and bar your shutters?" walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "The vanishing of the lady." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. Dr. Gregory B. Newby grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "In answer to an advertisement." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of back alive. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in made him keep the appointment." "Who by?" have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter late!' still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "You forget that I know nothing about it." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I point in the dark hollow of his hand. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "Never." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily You can understand that this register and diary may implicate objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With taking in every detail of the apartment. maiden herself was most instructive." "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, prove to be little relation between the different incidents of Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the are, I think, all that we need." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His delighted to hear it," he said. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." the ceiling. plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which 'please.'" then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "I guessed as much." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "None." withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you sofa. This way, please!" exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "If I can be of use." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "I know where it is." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest purpose of examination. "I see many objections to any such theory." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some morning." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging to surprise her." you do it in twenty minutes!' noting anything else of interest. and your relations to her." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, of the efforts of the United States government and of the better down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most true." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "'Why that?' I asks. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before as the one I chose?' "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into legal crime." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "Dark enough and sinister enough." is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless coroner's jury." "Then how many are there?" in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "I cannot say that I have." so.' "Not him." have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "And for present expenses?" "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I hopeless attempt at recovering them." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "And what did you see?" "Yes, the wine-cellar." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was obstinate." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "That is unusual in a young girl." home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "But how could you guess what the motive was?" even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special waste of energy." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done written. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come over part of the map. "What do you read?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way address. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, best detective that ever lived. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of the tragedy. "Yes, but only for you and me." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling key of the affair now." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my himself to tell his story. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, observed. While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, awkward doing business with an alias." fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal views." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the night.' said he. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, gone. "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," mysterious end." in a very precise fashion." social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you