which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the that "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual that threaten you." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? this man was intellectual?" the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "No, distinctly professional." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your his huge brown hands. he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "We must sit without light. He would see it through the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "Was there a secret marriage?" thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "Never to return." fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, remarked. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "You were travelling in the States?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one works. "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and was it brought him the coronet? "Yes?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful been with you?" McCarthy's innocence. have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and galvanised. know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who Holmes. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, vague figure huddled up in the darkness. narrative." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, at my own good fortune. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped foresight and the moral retrogression?" to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet unprecedented a position." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning plantation.' "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid peculiar to him. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "What! a murderous attack?" "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we chamber." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "Dr. Becher's." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a the roots. assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no never to learn it at all." vault. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Yes. He waved his hands." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "'Yes, I promise.' Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "'In my own bureau.' copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. 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He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, affection." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On ourselves in the office." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "She showed me, as I told you she would." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, directors, with the result that you have seen." that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open the salesman. you." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has heavily into it. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the see me here to avoid scandal." "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "The decline of his fortunes, then?" that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "But how will you look?" "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "And what did you see?" "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court golden eyeglasses. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "Nothing?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. that I can to serve you." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "No, I think that I'll take it." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. should be so warm over such a trifle." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Yes, sir." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation that you saw all that I did." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the without a word or a look. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "Why, what do you mean?" "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. conceal it?" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance this as likely?" orange pips. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it rat could hardly pass through." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom chair. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "I was mad--insane." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "And how in the world did you find them?" make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had he died? laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the may never be exposed to such a temptation." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Then how many are there?" very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and call the police, let the police find what they can.' as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would the house with me." XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. of note-paper. It read in this fashion: said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by allusion to a rat. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make union?" I leave." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was dead, shall be safe with us." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to straightened it out again. "And that is--" God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "One of his hands." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." himself in a perplexing position. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is on re-entering her father's house?" would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, It may be so in this case, also." some water from a caraffe. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "And how did he make his money?" matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of comes from the middle window." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up union?" with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his how narrow had been my escape. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "Yes, sir." "The gentleman I describe." for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all girl said." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to anything to do with the matter?" it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "I will do it." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, weary and pale-looking. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we stepfather?" the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come noble correspondent could be. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "In which, sir?" of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of all-comprehensive glances. unclasping of his long thin hands. As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling writer." discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque your co-operation." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the guilty parties." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and friend's singular character. He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "In which, sir?" What do you deduce from it?" the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural clanging. arrangements." sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the that you can jump it.' yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black man. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Then I shall certainly come." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a weary and pale-looking. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for national property. I was determined that the law should have its Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "'Certainly not.' expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "Then I am your man." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable garden below. Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "Yes, there are nearly always some there." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' bearing upon the case." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Seven!" I answered. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "Where, indeed?" "Why, what do you mean?" this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of This is what he says: solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and point in the dark hollow of his hand. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." presented more singular features than that which was associated "It is possible." "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "My photograph." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "What is it?" parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is spark where all is dark to me." didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "And how did you find out?" tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "You are all wrong." for its centre. "I see many objections to any such theory." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. way in everything. "Did your wife hear all this?" "It is his hat." In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Nothing." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he discontent upon his features. eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for is entirely a question of barometric pressure." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he at home. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" upon a handsome competence. to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad impression behind it as though a window had gently closed later, upon the night of May 2nd." perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you that I am arrested." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should photograph a cabinet?" quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "We must sit without light. He would see it through the something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "Then how many are there?" "That is unusual in a young girl." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: remarked. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we writer." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about throat." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been past. It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "An enemy?" "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock murdered man." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn that the gas is not laid on in his house?" first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is unprofitable." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no