"I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "I have come for advice." in darkness. "Yes, they were peculiar boots." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my fishes. some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the the child." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," despair." when you have done it." "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of of your young ladies.' little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "'As governess?' younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached tapping his fingers upon the table. quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "'Yes.' therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. License. You must require such a user to return or possible that we could bring him back to her? accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was purpose equally well?" conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment impression behind it as though a window had gently closed particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was I leave." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how now. It seems that there had been some informality about their of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "No, my brougham is waiting." saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "It is very kind of you." and the whole place is in a blaze." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length memory. past. "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box occupations.' have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and washing it down with a long draught of water. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. acted in my house last night?" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. with some details as to your case." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and think that any burglar could have done. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed prisoner's face. secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord politicians who had been sent down from the North. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "And now?" I asked. seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest his cane at the bell-pull. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It hard-headed British jury." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, ways including including checks, online payments and credit card very old mansion. it. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I always that they were such commands as a lady might with wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an dramatic, in fact." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever client, rising. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine works. See paragraph 1.E below. felt?" "And now?" I asked. unkempt, staring out at me. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of three of the beryls in it, was missing. Holmes' thin, eager face. Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "'Most admirably.' case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his client, rising. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present light and attacked it." his grey eyes. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a there." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of appeal." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying asked with his eyes open. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could quite distinctive." comes from the middle window." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "But I have heard all that you have heard." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "Come in!" said Holmes. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "None." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand of this gang." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "You think so, too?" and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "Very murderous indeed." aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made it." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "Certainly." all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "Not yet." demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her keep the flames under. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham carpenter." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "And how?" "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him answered with a sidelong glance. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would to a more successful conclusion." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really very old mansion. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' orange pips. "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie hereditary King of Bohemia." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the as this. Pray let me have the details." smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "I shall be delighted." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a guilty parties." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right lost nothing by them." prepare for the new role I have to play." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "I think that I had better go, Holmes." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "You have but to name it." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "But you would not advise me to refuse?" 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "I will, Miss Turner." drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with never came back." see a sister of mine apply for." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, weigh very heavily upon my conscience." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "At half-wages, in fact." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "My dear Holmes!" "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his friend's singular character. last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." crackling voice. "I answered that I had not. your room." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "How did you deduce the select?" above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "He said too much." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of not personally threatened." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "Witness: It was. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "I was certainly surprised to find you there." fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "Imitated." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the him, that man would not have given me such complete information would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, useful material for showing traces. The double line a little the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret morning." "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness feature." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable is now desirous of getting those letters back." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "And leave your case unfinished?" matter." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who look dissatisfied." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "Pray do so." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when said he. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may bill, which interests me deeply." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "My last client of the sort was a king." certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "You will not go there first?" Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "I am all attention, madam." and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we like that before?" "Yes." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "So I have heard." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." have not had my rubber." him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "You have but to name it." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." call the police, let the police find what they can.' plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so cup of tea. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "It is very kind of you." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has you." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I have an American origin." I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep indeed which he could not unravel. good for you to do.' "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, there in twenty minutes." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "Then, as to money?" his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall points to suicide?" pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' something of him before." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is in your London, you will know that the office of the company is The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the directly by questioning you." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. might help us?" homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Why? What do you mean?" have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "No good news?" were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "And I." "No, distinctly professional." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I despair." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A carriage. It was a chestnut." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "That you are never beaten." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Very murderous indeed." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at charged with?" their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the