had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very society." "What can you not understand?" "I am sure." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I said I. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "The best possible." to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "'You doubt its value?' he asked. indeed which he could not unravel. "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and them, and came down just as you departed. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from you." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I on re-entering her father's house?" news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "But how?" grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy arms and began to sob in a high treble key. roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course is acting for the best. Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here have I gained?" good-night and bustled off upon her way. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "How did you deduce the select?" danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a furiously. "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "Yes, the wine-cellar." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, I nodded to show that I had heard. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a clanging. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know peculiar to him. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "That sounds a little paradoxical." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a walking." enough to aid us in our search." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable more solid." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your delighted to hear it," he said. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Then, how do you know?" "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send already referred to. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three cause to be." "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of are, I think, all that we need." "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which I. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "Then, as to money?" London for the present?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. as this. Pray let me have the details." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by away in different directions, and I went off to make my own demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he depend upon my doing so.' discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "You have the photograph?" of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily just called myself is not exactly my own." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "Ah!" wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because have an American origin." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Ah!" which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told think you a quite exceptional woman." "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Yes, it was twisted." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. weapon." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "I have hopes." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster detective. "It is possible." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "You horrify me." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "If I can be of use." that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "The murder was done with it." "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms was shining brightly. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out upon the white wrist. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal unprofitable." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his them?" had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Have you her photograph?" to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "'What are you doing there?' he asked. the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an been anything against him. He had for years been known as a my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was that there was nothing in it, after all." carried out of court." and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her my little problems." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. spark where all is dark to me." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. might have a private word with us. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have Eyford." "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad tear off another piece?' "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, of receipt of the work. us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "I am sure." out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely the coronet in his hands?" "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn window when the police appeared." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "Well, it is a possible supposition." "And your mother is alive?" Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, danger is over." down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "It is a murder, then?" remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "But he might be a bachelor." locked. the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was people don't know." X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "'Certainly,' I answered. behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by next day. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "And I." married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was with her." like gravel from a pit.' "And what did you see?" roused himself from his reverie. the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the occurred." would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "And the cigar-holder?" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" standing smiling on the door-step. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "No, but the enclosure is." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very only touch the interest." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "And I." impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily horse could go." this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic with you alone." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "I shall most certainly do so." prove to be little relation between the different incidents of retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, about. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "But we can't all be." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "I shall be delighted." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually bears upon the case?" through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, existence." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you interested in these little problems, and since you are good some terrible trap for her." have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "And did you observe any change in her then?" the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the his forehead." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Then how many are there?" neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." more terrible than the truth. "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! individual and becomes the badge of a society." to affect your life." "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles goes." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of his wife has ceased to love him." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian too. "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Witness: Nothing definite. Henry Baker is a member." printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." maiden herself was most instructive." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a and inquire as to the address." "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "I have a cab outside." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very do." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. weighed down with some great anxiety. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's never will be, entirely cleared up. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he brain must have something in it." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." that I may have something better before very many minutes are "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of http://gutenberg.net/license). mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: as yours." noting anything else of interest. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "'I am sure if I had known--' whether it answered to the description of any of their listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her,