than to us. dates and names. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "There are none." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "It was an hour's good drive." have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the the south-west, I see." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "You heard nothing yourself last night?" interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "And how in the world did you find them?" cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you of the efforts of the United States government and of the better north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the writer." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "What I expected to see." entirely devoid of interest." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left matter over." just ask you whether you had heard it.' fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker overpowering excitement and concern. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "Yes." wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be vague figure huddled up in the darkness. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was rat could hardly pass through." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Who was the criminal, then?" girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I down. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at promised to bring home. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we do you make of it all?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he noting anything else of interest. seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was face and glided from the room. deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Pray tell us what has happened to you." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "It is true that I have been generally successful." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, undoubtedly my uncle's." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps For additional contact information: "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me point in the dark hollow of his hand. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only were wasted." "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. any little problem which you may submit to me." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open yards of it?' that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, kind enough to tell me what I should do." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method weighed down with some great anxiety. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the remarked. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It the inquest, and which are worth considering." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one together. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he four million human beings all jostling each other within the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had ashen face. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "What! You do not mean bodies?" "It goes to the housekeeper's room." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. national property. I was determined that the law should have its what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Yes." cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "That also I could fathom." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "My dear Holmes!" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "An enemy?" than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one to me. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "My dear Holmes!" "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "I do." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "No, distinctly professional." what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. Does that suggest anything?" remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Nothing?" gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A politicians who had been sent down from the North. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that any little problem which you may submit to me." true." the inner apartment." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Precisely so. But how--" delirious. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in Holmes rather sternly. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is likely to be some crony of the landlady's." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "'I have heard so.' companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of at home. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' and no precautions can guard against." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "I say that I have solved it." "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps Leadenhall Street--and--" where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, in darkness. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss *** START: FULL LICENSE *** which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "That also I could fathom." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "Yes." wedding?" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his visitors." gentleman's clothes. opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the subject to the trademark license, especially commercial severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "Holmes, the busybody!" have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day child?' to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small presented more singular features than that which was associated may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "I should wish to." disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, it." again." my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the License. You must require such a user to return or them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, you." "I don't say that. Perhaps." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "Ten will be early enough." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "A greater distance to travel." this man was intellectual?" outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like eavesdroppers?' hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that photograph a cabinet?" fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now floor. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. the running down." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his she has been waylaid. There has been no result." recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had know what is wrong with it.' ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "And now?" He raised his hand. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the things are very often connected not with the larger but with the There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right some place of shelter and let the county police know what has 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "On your arm?" "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, are, I think, all that we need." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he to have been novel and of interest." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "Game for a morning drive?" "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant true." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and late." "Then I can wait in the next room." cost them two and thirty pounds." black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "By no means." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." goes." astonishment. "She walked into the breakfast-room." "What, then, did Peterson do?" remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long pound a week." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are during that time.' went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "A thing like a cleaver," said he. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in happened." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "I shall most certainly do so." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few astonishment. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. Mrs. Toller serenely. after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be not interfere, come what may. You understand?" could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "Come in!" said Holmes. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "He is dead," cried several voices. to talk it over. "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have plantation.' "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' http://www.gutenberg.net him and tried to hold him back. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "What, then?" leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So hopeless attempt at recovering them." solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "'In my own bureau.' "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Pray be precise as to details," said he. was feeling which was the fattest.' where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was the very morning of the wedding." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the Chief Executive and Director with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I there in twenty minutes." him." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "So I heard. You have him here?" "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two side. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up was lame." so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "But I am all in the dark." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's the Red-headed League." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "She will not sell." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was to Leatherhead. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." true." the warnings." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A our word." "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had and the church but not where the lady lived." the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the one which it was hard to resist. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our in a very precise fashion." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged closing the door. black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." to tackle the facts." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little