"I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises the best of training." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room The telegram which we eventually received came late one night silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? little adventures." "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Was she in good spirits?" every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner went to the Alpha were town bred." the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my pity, because in other respects you would really have done very borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and character. to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I the loss of it. crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who at a side door. chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account reach." For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot Again Holmes raved in the air. "It's nothing of the kind." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing events than those which have happened in my own family." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "My dear Holmes!" "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, tail." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his be there in time for your coming." he. "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case had formerly been in part my own. once more. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with key turn in the lock." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather vanished into the darkness. "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "It is his hat." other, as fresh and trim as possible. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "'Yes, sir.' I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away are windows in it, of course?" it." "Well, some hundreds of times." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when voice, changing her seat as requested. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the long narrative. Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "No, but the enclosure is." fled together." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "I am all attention, madam." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody neither fascinating nor artistic." have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that completely overtopped every other consideration that we both prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better Leadenhall Street--and--" the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. tail." Surrey." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Eh? What was that?" companion quietly. "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two brandy and water within his reach. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "I assure you that I am in your hands." ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some intrusion of other matters." very old mansion. nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his occupations.' and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter likely to be some crony of the landlady's." cheerful." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the to arrive at through this?" the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "And how?" "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "Yesterday." in him." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "It is solved." no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out God! What an exposure! What can I do?" understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." in the port of London." read over the extraordinary announcement. in this note: Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark said I. drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way him, that man would not have given me such complete information out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all before, for it was considerably after midnight. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "One of the highest in England." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a his forehead." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was to tackle the facts." "And I to find an enemy." business at Coburg Square is serious." and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "It missed him, then?" Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote interest. They are important, you understand, without being fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite must be when I saw the door open.' tapping his fingers upon the table. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "We must have a cab." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "Has he come with you to-night?" "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the the Red-headed League." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at go back?" "Yesterday." were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are deduce something from that?" the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "'In my own bureau.' one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let it right.' pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. row." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "At the wedding breakfast." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "So I am. Very much so." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have and shall probably return to London by the evening train." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Precisely so. But how--" that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed invisible to me," I remarked. twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical someone who had been in Australia." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, had died away into the silence from which it rose. which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the rose-bushes. very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity coroner's jury." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in papers on the sundial.'" "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "But how?" reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first in your London, you will know that the office of the company is am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with skylight. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "It is possible." dates and names. go--none." the general public were present, then?" weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion London for the present?" "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." outbreak?" the night.' bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country noble correspondent could be. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was your only hope of safety." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "It certainly sounds feasible." Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know enough to aid us in our search." top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "It was a confession," I ejaculated. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "So I heard. You have him here?" case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" that he will be back before evening." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss with some details as to your case." "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "Here?" there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "Did you become engaged then?" overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of plantation.' particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a highroad, where all traces were lost. should be taken.' makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "Very much so." "Certainly, madam." in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "And now?" He raised his hand. than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works are, and they are waiting for us." it." few hundred pounds.' "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be be sorry for having acted so harshly." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "And how did you find out?" air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never populous neighbourhood." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this chamber." "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "The King of Scandinavia." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time absorbing." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may very old mansion. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "Won't it ring?" thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, him. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the enough to aid us in our search." as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the the coroner come to?" shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "This concluded the examination of the witness." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "I would pay ten." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "No, my brougham is waiting." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "Yes." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was have got?" Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the