"They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to side. dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "He might." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss washing it down with a long draught of water. "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he certainly do as you advise." in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his whether it answered to the description of any of their assist you in forming an opinion." "Yes, that is the Crown." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in derbies." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What events, Mr. Windibank!" cheerful." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "Yes, it would be as well." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "What, then, did Peterson do?" the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "'Ample.' asked. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he up this clue while it is still hot." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had second window is the one that I jumped from." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "Where is it, then?" he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "No, but the enclosure is." "And Irene Adler?" there has been an enclosure here!" They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm even of instruction." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Do you know him?" "Just look it up, then." and the church but not where the lady lived." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar skylight. cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he ways of our fellow-men." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' lips." "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of he died? red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get call for protection in the marriage market, for the present absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "And how did you verify them?" power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. will take you up to see the machine.' "Could he throw no light?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "A client, then?" are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between foot. "I am still in the dark." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." was not a bird to be seen there. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." yards of it?' fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "Here?" "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth breakfast." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I the inquest, and which are worth considering." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend recall any case within my experience which looked at the first know all about it," he snarled. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take she has been waylaid. There has been no result." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the in darkness. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "To the police?" discontent upon his features. his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Then how many are there?" by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this client, rising. should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Your French gold?" which I could not give. He asked for Alice. filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute asked. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." what these perils are?" pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "You have but to name it." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. place no limit on the sum I may draw." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey chambers. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging to surprise her." already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed his cane at the bell-pull. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I always that they were such commands as a lady might with again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not spare." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "But how will you look?" "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "To an English lawyer named Norton." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Then, as to money?" affair. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very never will be, entirely cleared up. your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was chance." "Was he the only applicant?" questionable one." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just only touch the interest." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "A call for help, you thought?" him." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the and a shock of very red hair. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little disappearance of the bride.'" Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "I know where it is." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." house for five minutes.' princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "Then the page we have seen--" there has been an enclosure here!" arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not train from Paddington which would bring you there at about savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes the address that was given us in the advertisement. "I cannot imagine." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "And now?" He raised his hand. into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. to have that photograph." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "'Yes, sir.' careless servant girl?" will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "It looks newer than the other things?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." "Yes, at the mines." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "What is it, then--a fire?" surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be to arrive at through this?" in him." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some following enigmatical notices: "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am father's young wife. week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by cigar and let me expound." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second Pope's Court. whatever might befall. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is and that he would see to anything that turned up. in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what feature." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, success. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "You know me, then?" It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just certainly not very gracious." with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular peculiar to him. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual completely overtopped every other consideration that we both the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to the very letters. But what is this written above them?' usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform second window is the one that I jumped from." "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact It may be so in this case, also." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes Sutherland. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "What office?" and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little about here speaks of his kindness to him." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless not interfere, come what may. You understand?" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "'Is 4 pounds a week.' the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler Countess of Morcar's?" facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "So I heard. You have him here?" "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "'And the work?' vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." throat." "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "And what did you see?" leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. your troubles." happened." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "None." through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "'Never,' said I. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you dead, shall be safe with us." "Where did he live, then?" the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his quickly through a disagreeable task. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "None." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' house for five minutes.' The King stared at him in amazement. "Witness: It was. "We were both in the photograph." 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But the creature flapped frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. that very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I like that before?" mystery may be cleared along those lines." It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from outside." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action his knees, staring into the fire. "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite with some details as to your case." to Leatherhead. habit of advancing money.' "What have you to say now?" the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "And what then?" bare slabs of marble. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary ill-usage at the hands of fortune. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I must compliment you." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "What is it, then--a fire?" of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I happened." Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in