present." "I cannot tell." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "My dear Holmes!" should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "Was he the only applicant?" he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the used to be." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "'It is locked up,' I answered. Where does the thing come from?' drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes good-night and bustled off upon her way. detained." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard formed some opinion?" "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "And why in hopes?" "And I." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, spark where all is dark to me." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Just look it up, then." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "But how?" fattened it expressly for you.' "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every prepare for the new role I have to play." "'Certainly not.' When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these enter into my head. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek golden eyeglasses. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "The knees of his trousers." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Did you observe the colour?" stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small ashen face. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be brain must have something in it." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. it." When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the your co-operation." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." about here speaks of his kindness to him." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then For additional contact information: locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able case before our client came into the room." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "I fear not." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "I promise," said Holmes. kindly on the shoulder. Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. definite end. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" there is a decided draught." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "Never to return." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' our word." "A client, then?" "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has his fortune, and I went back to pa. opportunities to fix the problem. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "Texas, I think." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the His smile broadened. "By no means." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "It is solved." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take presume?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman even so self-evident a thing as that." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, one's self under obligations.' over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but records." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "Who was the criminal, then?" I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "How many? I don't know." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "Married! When?" he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "An accident, I presume?" where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of corner of the building. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It them?" the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon over with notes and figures. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "I would give my fortune to have them back." "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine been lifted and conveyed somewhere." rose-bushes. tail." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "And why in hopes?" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "But how did you gain them?" explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of he. in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her some mystery and the punishment of some crime." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "No, but the enclosure is." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "None." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I least a fellow-countryman. them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Yes, that is the Crown." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his lids now and glanced across at his visitor. so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be back to my heart. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my opened a pocket-book and took out a note. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon the morning and make my own way in the world.' however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "One of his hands." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." see a sister of mine apply for." at once, for I have only half an hour." swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must very old mansion. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a in. when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I cigars in the box." his wife has ceased to love him." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** really the only notable feature about the thing." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns instincts rose up against that laugh. note?" have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" round with crates and massive boxes. "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. and no precautions can guard against." to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the I held the little printed slip to the light. in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself held up the lantern and gazed about him. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving yet." gone. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean so far?" "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without the bed, and you in that chair." once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a foot. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent less than 26s. 4d. convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "About a month then." standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's matter." signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after I shall continue with my miserable story. but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but what I may call a really hard day's work." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. cheerful." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure examine." them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling as the one I chose?' think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room room. was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few wedding?" knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened open." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." them?" explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "But I am all in the dark." you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger there were so many in the whole country as were brought together upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about for the market.' into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "His face fell immediately. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came him and tried to hold him back. the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "Oh, fresh and glossy." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, outside." what I may call a really hard day's work." it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, for and were ordered to this address. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "I cannot imagine." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his about. on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that nothing of it?" maiden herself was most instructive." but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my quick march!" by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "How on earth--" "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "Whose house is it?" there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "You saw the ventilator, too?" quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that child?' feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "Absolutely none." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been said he at last. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "I assure you that I am in your hands." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Whose house is it?" Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." fuss that is made over them." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The careless servant girl?" It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. questionable one." reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by chemical work which was so dear to him. "No, I am descending." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to children over to America with him, so that I found myself without the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just acquaintance?" logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would make me his representative both with the servants and with the received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his bears upon the case?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he knowledge of the world." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick as this. Pray let me have the details." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "That also I could fathom." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "How on earth--" imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "I was sure that I might rely on you." the room while you explain this matter?" that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a woven round him. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police you give your casting vote to?" annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "Where, then, is my wife?" "But who is he?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the