bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "Always." through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." girl said." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "'Ten to two.' the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a than was visible to me." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until I. hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "Pray tell us what has happened to you." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was country, and eventually married, without anyone having a about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the think that any burglar could have done. it." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, past. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "Married! When?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I of campaign. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." DISSOLVED. three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Nothing." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "But your client--" writing, and yet I know it well." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that God! What an exposure! What can I do?" slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his like gravel from a pit.' with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "Stoke Moran?" said he. As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I Farm upon the left." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "It came here." Street. shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT yards of it?' dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "Not I." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "How do you know, then?" dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a make me his representative both with the servants and with the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was papers must be those that are destroyed.' letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "I know where it is." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." was lame." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house gone. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this could not account in any way for the presence of the missing handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "I should like to see him very much." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." stood on the top of it. not personally threatened." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the something of him before." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "That is it on the dressing-table." method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall his huge brown hands. acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and deduce something from that?" has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "'Ten to two.' of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "I think that I had better go, Holmes." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his telegram would bring me down to your help." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I a very grave face. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at asked. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "You have compromised yourself seriously." past. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Who was the criminal, then?" door?" perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside deduce something from that?" lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the woman." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. noting anything else of interest. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main it? Did I buy the geese off you?" A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is States. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Deserted you?" "Yes, but only for you and me." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as showing my impatience. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love seem to you to be relevant or not." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "It may not come to that," said Holmes. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of within hail.' "I see many objections to any such theory." them, and came down just as you departed. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "Nothing." Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "And help." coat-tails." that I can to serve you." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been delighted to hear it," he said. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this nothing of it?" husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this opportunities to fix the problem. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room place of silver." of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it spark where all is dark to me." the south-west, I see." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It that you can jump it.' dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to when your master had gone out." been deceived." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more will take you up to see the machine.' You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated indeed which he could not unravel. week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "'And the work?' it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." experiences." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly made him keep the appointment." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Pray let us have it, for all that." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "Well?" to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "I cannot as yet see any connection." as this. Pray let me have the details." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "So I heard. You have him here?" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "What is it, then--a fire?" inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. respectable self." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long letters?" "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend forebodings. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "The vanishing of the lady." the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. conduct the inquiry." man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Was he the only applicant?" "I would pay ten." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "No good news?" "Which are?" over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice front of the hall door has given its name to the place. our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "'I have heard so.' home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left been with you?" me where it went to?" have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a and inquire as to the address." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Young McCarthy must be got off, however." But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "Entirely." served to weaken the effect. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe of note-paper. It read in this fashion: be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." astonishment. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a a few minutes he said that it would be all right. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of I approached. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that which was all perfectly true. to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the made him keep the appointment." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. my little problems." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the never will be, entirely cleared up. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "Pray be precise as to details," said he. and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if morning." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near have not had my rubber." "None." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her strode off upon his way. persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried over his head with a sweet womanly caress. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw the very morning of the wedding." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, your co-operation." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "How did you trace it, then?" "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "I should be immensely obliged to you." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "Very well, sir. And this stone?" actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "I will do it." Farm upon the left." "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, is worth.' "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press during which he might have communicated with his friend the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "'And what are they worth?' I asked. neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the south, for the country is more deserted there." His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in McCarthy's innocence. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" that threaten you." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments door?" eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, some city in a dream. heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his bird of prey. Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "No." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his garden below. "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the room. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg third from London." important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of