"God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. could go. thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman learned something! Where are the gems?" dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "Not in the least." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "This concluded the examination of the witness." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "You think that he is dead?" dear old homesteads?" The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said at home. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "Yes." It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. corner of the building. will not take me long to tell. his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I weighed down with some great anxiety. Have you good authority for what you say?" ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "But you have hopes?" bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear new acquaintance to Baker Street. business in the City. She little knew what. "It is very clear." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "My Mary? Impossible!" keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "Come in!" said he. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed everything which you would wish to know." made him keep the appointment." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." was it brought him the coronet? to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were the room while you explain this matter?" reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one directly by questioning you." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I back to my heart. business?" coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her it were putty." easy-going way." "Then, how do you know?" Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "She will not sell." family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "How did you deduce the select?" He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" to that open window." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able at once, for I have only half an hour." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon little adventures." no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after the bottom.' "'A dozen yards or so.' trying to your nerves." test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And outside. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." the salesman. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the his knees, staring into the fire. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in peculiar to him. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. fuss that is made over them." As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "It is no ordinary one." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" outside." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "It is possible." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." entirely devoid of interest." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "I know where it is." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The you in your example." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "Not yet." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, noise which awoke you from your sleep?" business matters.' tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally Countess of Morcar's?" came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in tell him that I know him to be innocent." At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you this unhappy family?" not interfere, come what may. You understand?" and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "By train from Waterloo." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to front of me. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included became a certainty. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at him. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "I will, Miss Turner." wedding?" "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. brandy and water within his reach. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," putting in the horse. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the the nursery. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the words came to my lips. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Yes, they were peculiar boots." which should have the effect of calling the attention of the will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "No, I am descending." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has in his hands." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds up this clue while it is still hot." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "Yes, it was twisted." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "She will not sell." James Windibank. Voilà tout!" fattened it expressly for you.' whereabouts. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in carpenter." conceal it?" were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "I say it is." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events acted in my house last night?" young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." you." that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is breakfast?" "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom gone before you can get him to hospital." perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "It came here." perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the his knees, staring into the fire. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "Where to?" of your young ladies.' dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid trifles." their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he there." I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. fatally injured? unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen man. I know him from the photograph." least a fellow-countryman. Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "And when will you call?" remarked. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would weighed down with some great anxiety. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal together. wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this very morning of my second wedding." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Here?" photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "We were both in the photograph." "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "I cannot think." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "And how did he make his money?" "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "Your French gold?" turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when are windows in it, of course?" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a means taking possession of that which another person has a prior point in the dark hollow of his hand. "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." and no precautions can guard against." stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three straighten it?" "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that when your master had gone out." "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my off." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "And sit in the dark?" "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, Miss Holder?" see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "Well." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "Yes." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "I will, Miss Turner." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to to surprise her." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of that he has suffered." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "Very murderous indeed." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to behind me. have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no said he, "my real name is James Ryder." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Which are?" seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my the warnings." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out clang of the bell. politicians who had been sent down from the North. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "You'll never persuade me to believe that." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it tightly behind him. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a security.' "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram and no precautions can guard against." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall II. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "Yes, but only for you and me." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, Dr. Gregory B. Newby his eyes and forehead. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was Eyford at 11:15.' "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months orange pips. lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "One of the highest in England." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco room?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to the dangers which encompass me." penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Just look it up, then." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "To the police?" is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness if I call to-morrow?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he felt the room to be a little close.' Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. other lovers by making love himself." in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." waste of energy." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his any." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave that I am arrested." dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we is so. I know all about McCarthy." vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you face and glided from the room. to surprise her." "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Her father is very rich?" puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down the loss of it. in this way: fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "No legal papers or certificates?" have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "What steps will you take?" I asked. later, upon the night of May 2nd." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly the loss of it. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES The King stared at him in amazement. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock over part of the map. "What do you read?" know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" James Windibank. Voilà tout!" respectable self." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to some city in a dream. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by crowd. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria