she used." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "And the cigar-holder?" bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "Her father is very rich?" come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of possible that we could bring him back to her? very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and lost his Christmas dinner." before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "What shall I do?" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the see a sister of mine apply for." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "I came to find a friend." that I can to serve you." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the prisoner's face. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in definite end. but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "Thank you. And your address?" she to prove their authenticity?" long narrative. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the and the whole place is in a blaze." wedding?" course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the and your relations to her." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he you?" the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed suddenly upon us." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock imbecility!" he cried. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and awkward doing business with an alias." but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "Well, but China?" The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and burst into a hearty fit of laughter. responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. 11:15.' "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. gentleman's clothes. you in yours." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. was used.' story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are morning." with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one to you." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those business." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. call you and give you the chance." Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Yes, but only for you and me." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, than to us. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water are, I think, all that we need." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "That is it on the dressing-table." "Yes, the wine-cellar." is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and breakfast." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some placed his cuttings. as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "And your mother is alive?" heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, him and tried to hold him back. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock words came to my lips. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw read over the extraordinary announcement. "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean to surprise her." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "What will you do, then?" "Yes." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The you?" waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as train.' of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "May I see it?" recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a the Friday. Was it to be in church?" peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Which are?" "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from straighten it?" his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed o'clock is it?" everything which you would wish to know." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two a very grave face. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was delighted to hear it," he said. with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. mystery!" you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a and the colonel ushered me in. Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "Well." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Yes, the wine-cellar." of campaign. have I gained?" "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "The murder was done with it." brought there to personate someone, and the real person is for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "'Tell me all about it,' said I. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "But she will refuse." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start see a sister of mine apply for." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came memory. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "Nothing?" is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was Sholtos." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young to-night's adventure." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, he bowed and left the room without another word. it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were I shall communicate with you." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long discontent upon his features. once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands light and attacked it." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about dead, shall be safe with us." fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself overpowering excitement and concern. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere tied." her also." "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "I shall be delighted." might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Is he quiet?" impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "I assure you that I am in your hands." who was a member of your goose club." "I have seen the police." located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "Yes." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "You are hungry," I remarked. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with question. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, events, Mr. Windibank!" the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed What do you deduce from it?" "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a will he say when he returns?" "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "A client, then?" bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, success. square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. a good hundred miles off by now." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! been with you?" met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See yards of it?' I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived gone before you can get him to hospital." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. an introduction to him?" presented which may be striking and bizarre without being will he say when he returns?" wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the mystery!" allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, or in danger--" "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "And how did you verify them?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so mystery!" to me. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is open." was lame." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" danger is over." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a Sutherland. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to investigation." My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "Then I do not see the point." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon again on its way. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused vanished into the darkness. "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all lectures into a series of tales." "Is he quiet?" and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "I have come for advice." formed some opinion?" strong and stiff." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could you." "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing better in every way that they should make their position a little on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I the loss of it. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious to that open window." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up indeed which he could not unravel. may never be exposed to such a temptation." is a common subject for conversation. perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "By no means." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was ways including including checks, online payments and credit card ventilator." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "What, then?" circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared you for a few hours?" indiscretion." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it never came back." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my likely to be some crony of the landlady's." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must morning." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "I cannot think." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out o'clock is it?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he most interesting one." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened and the colonel ushered me in. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position absorbing." events, Mr. Windibank!" perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit where we are going." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have lost nothing by them." examine." this Miss Turner." "'About the same.' "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my and capable of preserving a secret.' presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is appeared upon the scene." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the Holmes. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall here." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the heavy and sharp instrument." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more been able to understand it, in a very few words. "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his