circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "But what harm can there be in that?" succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my foot. with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was carried out of court." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and business." Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with nights." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "What I expected to see." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf question you as to those details which seem to me to be most returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its fishes. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, disappearance of the bride.'" walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian stammered. quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands maiden herself was most instructive." that, and I came down." hurried away. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Yes, it would be as well." "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the I took the paper from him and read as follows: sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with character. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any bearing upon the case." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "And I." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "Yes, the wine-cellar." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The Gutenberg-tm License. shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. your billet.' "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "'Yes.' dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. hour." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire congratulate you again." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Pray do so." PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." your billet.' them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and them?" "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough you understand?" dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two the inner apartment." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of lamp in his hand. just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" the devil!" place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to likely to be some crony of the landlady's." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for likely to be some crony of the landlady's." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this despaired of." the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with would then never go into court at all." one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking had no one to advise her at such a crisis." attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us indeed which he could not unravel. first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it as this. Pray let me have the details." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to Eyford at 11:15.' "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black so.' the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "But his left-handedness." known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic His smile broadened. arrested. You then--" "A thing like a cleaver," said he. would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then waste of energy." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Not in a good cause." know all about it," he snarled. "You did not overhear what they said?" "And your mother is alive?" Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "And your father? Did you tell him?" are windows in it, of course?" trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "My photograph." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead heavy and sharp instrument." "Bought." mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents 'please.'" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" know that the truth is known." "The gentleman I describe." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting status with the IRS. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about should be so warm over such a trifle." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you congratulate you again." "Yes, from Horsham." the window, rose as we entered. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he key of the affair now." already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the away into the river." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were During two years I have had three consultations and one small never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the mystery!" out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "Do you go out much in society?" became a certainty. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at through." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City bed dies. Does not that strike you?" myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "He is dead," cried several voices. hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' used to be." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which see me here to avoid scandal." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "The doctor?" himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "One of the highest in England." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which or other trace. But how on earth--" "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some all that?" list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything which we had just quitted. vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "Game for a morning drive?" congratulate you again." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and himself in a perplexing position. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "Eh? What was that?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence breakfast?" down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower that?' ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a compunction about shooting them down." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "An accident, I presume?" work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given writers could invent nothing more crude." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon think you a quite exceptional woman." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no on re-entering her father's house?" my former friend and companion. and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said recall any case within my experience which looked at the first hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my gone. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "No." the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "Holmes, the busybody!" the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She to-night?" I asked. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, as noiselessly as she had come. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "And why?" for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a infinite languor in his face. "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." as he remarks, very much against the son." any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with delirious. "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is entirely lost his self-respect." happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "This photograph!" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and husband's writing, madam." "This photograph!" settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you bled considerably." to some other building. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "How are you getting on?" "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same could go. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, the nursery. 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last correct than the official force." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "But you have hopes?" admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "What of the rat, then?" "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "A confidential servant?" Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs some place of shelter and let the county police know what has his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. bird I ate is country bred." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an bearing upon the case." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a shaken than I had ever seen him. "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "Really! You surprise me." and put his glass in his pocket. matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the not interfere, come what may. You understand?" to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "'What are you doing there?' he asked. coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "Bought." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that outside." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It again on its way. brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "But what harm can there be in that?" direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" Eyford at 11:15.' Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but before the coroner and the police-court." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "A thing like a cleaver," said he. There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "I will try. What is it?" "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon garden below. which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. go back?" "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so writers could invent nothing more crude." "How did that help you?" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the is a common subject for conversation. centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. business." papers diligently of late, have you not?" two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his less than 26s. 4d. "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are name is different." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to was a lad." like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither vanished into the darkness. "They are typewritten," I remarked. you understand?" here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from call the police, let the police find what they can.' "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. which I could not give. He asked for Alice. my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "I promise," said Holmes. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable