"Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "I see many objections to any such theory." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old been shamefully used." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and the ceiling. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a province." been able to understand it, in a very few words. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I wife's character?" all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "My Mary? Impossible!" questioning and rather startled gaze. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord room?" "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting were wasted." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." so.' room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the Pope's Court. into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up sparkled upon his finger. satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." fuss that is made over them." as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed derbies." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." matter over." wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but hurried away. "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "But to whom?" could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "How on earth--" "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no carried out of court." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "Nothing?" "Pray do so." not as remarkable as your advertisement." his knees, staring into the fire. into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "Thank you. Pray proceed." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white envelope. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "The Coroner: What do you mean? with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little together. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that I think that I could be of assistance to you." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the carriage. It was a chestnut." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. chance at all." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a be.' "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was there was no need for father to know." sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "'Ample.' "Game for a morning drive?" When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest sofa. This way, please!" "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the have been better. It is all right." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. was a perfect sample of the class. wanted for ourselves." yet." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "And you can do nothing until then?" massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was nonsense.' tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "'Ten to two.' been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Really! You surprise me." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down footfalls from the street. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon *** START: FULL LICENSE *** never will be, entirely cleared up. "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried washing it down with a long draught of water. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the and laid it on the table. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "To ruin me." "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, with frightened eyes at his accuser. fashion which was peculiar to him. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "I have a cab outside." "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little might have a private word with us. "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you roused himself from his reverie. "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "That is it on the dressing-table." "Did you become engaged then?" intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced in this note: passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "And how in the world did you find them?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." Countess of Morcar's?" George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. envelope. client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and rose-bushes. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "He slept on the premises." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. before the coroner and the police-court." is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. sound at heart." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "Then I shall certainly come." "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with lips." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." and glanced through. "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, within hail.' "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her business." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce ceremony." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is union?" He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he his grey eyes. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "And how did you find out?" these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "'Then let me do so?' sound at heart." his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and What do you deduce from it?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the people in all walks of life. "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "Holmes, the busybody!" "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "Frequently." to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's strength in the others." one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to some terrible trap for her." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter some terrible trap for her." "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe tied." ventilator." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "'Certainly not.' our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "You were travelling in the States?" still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" better grown goose." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as business." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" of a light. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "I am still in the dark." cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "No, I am descending." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by himself. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "Yes. He waved his hands." his knees, staring into the fire. ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you prison!" destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "Yes, sir." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should look dissatisfied." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door was not a bird to be seen there. late!' to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in what do you think they found in the pockets?" This is what he says: takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "My dear Holmes!" "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" gives a meaning to it." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, http://gutenberg.net/license). road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Yes." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking will not take me long to tell. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and You can understand that this register and diary may implicate moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into girl said." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite compunction about shooting them down." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you my friend's incisive reasoning. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush and effective." to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Oh, the cause is excellent!" he bowed and left the room without another word. written. away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in forebodings. for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "No, finished." the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "Was there a secret marriage?" Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing anything to do with the matter?" danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a experiences." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over deduce something from that?" cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "What can you not understand?" time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "I have hopes." without success. At last the little money which I had saved began emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "'A dozen yards or so.' means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your his huge brown hands. the loss of it. "You don't mind breaking the law?" themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place which we had just quitted. again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible during which he might have communicated with his friend the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could showing my impatience. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "That sounds a little paradoxical." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, redistribution. safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg papers." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." chance at all." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek my special province." Turner. 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