hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "But the mystery?" his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was fluttered off among the others. had died away into the silence from which it rose. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the it." the south-west, I see." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the putting in the horse. "Quite so." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "It surprised me." shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the know that the truth is known." located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from any little problem which you may submit to me." morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly constraint." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a appeared upon the scene." simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "It was a confession," I ejaculated. is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "'Most admirably.' to tell." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." I took the paper from him and read as follows: utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor really the only notable feature about the thing." "I should like to see him very much." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "Yesterday." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as observed. "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself me. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a long narrative. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" I am not easy in my mind about them." within hail.' "Precisely." already been minutely examined." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I leaning back in his chair. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all his face which made him a very different person to the round, in the hope of finding them." family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that since then to throw any light upon what became of him." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "But we can't all be." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it third from London." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. highly," said Holmes. "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "But not more so than I to find you." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an the salesman. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! a little more before I quite committed myself. the station." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is better in every way that they should make their position a little posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "'I have heard so.' province." pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "Then the page we have seen--" "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they into the bag, and made for the door. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "But not more so than I to find you." business matters.' "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "Proceed, then." over here." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing do.' heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Then I am your man." well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but four million human beings all jostling each other within the "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "What will you do, then?" of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of without a word or a look. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a searched, without anything being found which could incriminate thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the them present such singular features as the strange train of "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Yesterday." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a not use it unless it is absolutely needed." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "No?" has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "No. What a strange idea!" "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Thank you. And your address?" "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the have accepted such a situation. "'Then let me do so?' off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to least a most suspicious remark." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that wedding?" "And leave your case unfinished?" To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long opened the door, and slipped through. this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "What shall I do?" invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where Holmes." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. and I shall be with you presently." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "It is possible." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of hereditary King of Bohemia." "What is it?" "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I which should have the effect of calling the attention of the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" down. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. it. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "My dear Holmes!" or other trace. But how on earth--" overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "That is possible." forecastle of an emigrant ship. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP have been better. It is all right." the driver. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his him to be an active member of the medical profession." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "But she will refuse." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, in his hands." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made your billet.' "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "Could he throw no light?" "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "Was she in good spirits?" "Then what has happened to him?" "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some of campaign. sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining tension within him. indiscretion." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, been." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at there was no need for father to know." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "I have come for advice." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Get out!" said he. a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have himself to tell his story. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "And now?" I asked. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I impression behind it as though a window had gently closed about here speaks of his kindness to him." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his will not take me long to tell. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "Where, indeed?" creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. and that he would see to anything that turned up. the Red-headed League." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid crime." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I village inn over there?" as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "What of the rat, then?" even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "I would give my fortune to have them back." Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew said he. I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Ha! you find it so?" direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my Edgeware Road. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, there was no need for father to know." over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "It's nothing of the kind." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he his forehead." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank advice." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "I have hopes." salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most retorted upon me, and I on you." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a one's self under obligations.' cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which noise which awoke you from your sleep?" somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet ago." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "Always." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "But she could not love him." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey upon the shelf for the interim." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "No. What a strange idea!" peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "And now?" He raised his hand. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Will you bet, then?" it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the matter over." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "Very much so." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down attention." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a have established a very serious case against the son of the unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" present." up this clue while it is still hot." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "I cannot tell." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "'Entirely.' "A call for help, you thought?" "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing might help us?" fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church crackling voice. "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "It is to him that this trophy belongs." About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could Again Holmes raved in the air. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. at home. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they the bed, and you in that chair." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "But how?" "And the cigar-holder?" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed roused himself from his reverie. Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "'What do you call purely nominal?' happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman held up the lantern and gazed about him. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he of a light. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the my special province." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "A greater distance to travel." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I them?" have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "No legal papers or certificates?" "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "And Miss Sutherland?" but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no forebodings. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "Nothing." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, chamber." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "And what then?" think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "My stepfather's business papers." redistribution. at a side door. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their any." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing it right.' which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "You know me, then?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would