"So I have heard." we went to search for him, face downward in a little open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." this as likely?" What do you deduce from it?" was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been few hundred pounds.' "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "And I say east," said my patient. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous triumphant cloud from his cigarette. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would Cross for the Continent." Heh?' nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "But what harm can there be in that?" understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few Arthur Conan Doyle it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to laugh and put his lips to my ear. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With his wife has ceased to love him." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "None. Neville wrote those words." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "I was mad--insane." seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press before, for it was considerably after midnight. Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "A thing like a cleaver," said he. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of invisible to me," I remarked. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "No, I think that I'll take it." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire never to learn it at all." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, directors, with the result that you have seen." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Here?" "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of cost them two and thirty pounds." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "Very much so." the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with said I. already been minutely examined." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical sit on the left-hand side of the driver." Doctor, of the paper and the date." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "And the murderer?" expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of bedroom door." dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "The doctor?" protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend question," said Holmes, smiling. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "'Entirely.' full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. point in the dark hollow of his hand. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could other, as fresh and trim as possible. insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of everything which you would wish to know." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." papers must be those that are destroyed.' conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I bell. Holmes whistled. from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "'Yes, it was gone.' meant it for the best. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "And why?" "We were both in the photograph." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. certainly not very gracious." "No, my brougham is waiting." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. in this note: be sorry for having acted so harshly." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, or other trace. But how on earth--" fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." Sutherland?" ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy presented which may be striking and bizarre without being the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to introspective fashion. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up gone. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best the King without delay." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and voice. "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "Yes, at the mines." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" room. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Certainly." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Perhaps I have." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church During two years I have had three consultations and one small sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "May I see it?" cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do it means?" stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that it were putty." and put his glass in his pocket. outside. qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Yes." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and something of him before." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or you, my dear young lady?' Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be it." outside." "How often?" absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "Yes, at the mines." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for fear." been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of woman who has had her own way to make in the world. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all crackling voice. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "Then how many are there?" and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new to arrive at through this?" out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I you found me to-night--and running through the front room she highly," said Holmes. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. with some details as to your case." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the charged with?" "Here?" answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you enter into my head. The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Dirty?" unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One looking up at the numbers of the houses." to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "'Yes, sir.' This is what he says: tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "Only as much as we can deduce." over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the speckled band?" his knees, staring into the fire. comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between always that they were such commands as a lady might with gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "I never have." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we note?" Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very Street. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the both be extremely obliged.' sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Awake, Watson?" he asked. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "'There is a drive, then?' in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "Yes, it was twisted." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have had this final quarrel? were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. suggested at once that there must be a communication between the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps held up the lantern and gazed about him. in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings not as remarkable as your advertisement." of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "But what harm can there be in that?" the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "The rest you will leave in our hands." spark where all is dark to me." "Whose house is it?" younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had hurried by. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "I will not look." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed coat-tails." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered direction." wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "I have hopes." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, asked. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out and prosperity to your house. Good-night." me what he had done with the three missing stones. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "I beg pardon." here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven seem to you to be relevant or not." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one that he has suffered." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To everything which you would wish to know." near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Come in!" said Holmes. "How did that help you?" "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon of the vacancies.' "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a this remarkable episode. wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "No, I think that I'll take it." some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he a very grave face. of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and him, that man would not have given me such complete information trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone mystery." morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen was a lad." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob carried out of court." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Then, how do you know?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. 1.E.9. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our Does that suggest anything?" be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in distance from the station, and there we found the young lady photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone been able to understand it, in a very few words. bird I ate is country bred."