window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the License. You must require such a user to return or Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, back to my heart. tell them apart.' "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in nice household for a young lady." Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "I never have." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. I shall communicate with you." Countess of Morcar's?" Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be secret." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the things are very often connected not with the larger but with the dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend said Mr. Holder. http://www.gutenberg.net a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. this as likely?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been opportunities to fix the problem. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my skylight. allusion to a rat. the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "Then I do not see the point." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "So I heard. You have him here?" ourselves in the office." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his the inner apartment." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is case-book, which he consulted. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg have accepted such a situation. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger it." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "No, but the enclosure is." with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you the very morning of the wedding." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "Only as much as we can deduce." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Really! You surprise me." turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." there was no need for father to know." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "And your mother is alive?" postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the chamber." "I am in hopes that she does." "Thank you. And your address?" behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Foundation shoulder; "he's all right." or other trace. But how on earth--" "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, he bowed and left the room without another word. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to anything to a woman, for she would have her way." of them has the shutters up.' on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "Proceed, then." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the Sutherland?" however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed six. Come in!" "Murdered?" placed his cuttings. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how with some details as to your case." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone likely to be some crony of the landlady's." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "I am in hopes that she does." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "Of what day?" approach us with offers to donate. "Your presence might be invaluable." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the this Miss Turner." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his you?' End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He Holmes rather sternly. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "On the contrary, this is the right side." "In which, sir?" knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she I leave." opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for I shall communicate with you." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in standing smiling on the door-step. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an detained." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see tell me that you intended to go into harness." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "Yes. He waved his hands." already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to do.' sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "I will get her to show me." here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "To an English lawyer named Norton." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right key turn in the lock." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, walking." she to prove their authenticity?" always that they were such commands as a lady might with explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of gentleman's clothes. "'Very good.' will not take me long to tell. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "What shall I do?" the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "Pray be precise as to details," said he. without a word or a look. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." helping a boy to put up the shutters. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the out of this horrible affair." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still crowd. volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that room. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Of what day?" seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "I cannot as yet see any connection." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' kind enough to tell me what I should do." seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could forehead. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so villagers almost as much as their master. "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, the salesman. usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement and a shock of very red hair. "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that about here speaks of his kindness to him." "It's nothing of the kind." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "But you were on a friendly footing?" chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in your most interesting statement." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us and no precautions can guard against." "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," thought that she would have been so carried away." sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "The murder was done with it." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "He might." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his night.' said he. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the once more. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what interest. They are important, you understand, without being clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful particular state visit http://pglaf.org "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "'I am sure if I had known--' The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." you." access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "'Quite sure, dad.' "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are will not take me long to tell. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" Count Von Kramm." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the that you saw all that I did." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir not interfere, come what may. You understand?" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "You have it, sir, just as it happened." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir geese which you supplied to the Alpha." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "He said that you could solve anything." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich at a side door. "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. prisoner's face. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is was it brought him the coronet? had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no married her." It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were in his power. common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. and the colonel ushered me in. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a the night.' business at Coburg Square is serious." "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, writing, and yet I know it well." "She showed me, as I told you she would." customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. out." too. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. to tell." system of imprisonment?" perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over your only hope of safety." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, the south-west, I see." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I him nearly every evening." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we minor matters until to-morrow." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "'Entirely.' watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "And it is--" "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she prison!" reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very the King without delay." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry existence." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to knowledge of the world." "'How far from the body?' should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the seen the man in the road." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "'Certainly,' I answered. remarked. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Will you go?" company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was light and attacked it." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "It was an hour's good drive." when you have done it." "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a but preventing her from injuring another. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the dear old homesteads?" "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "Here?" "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was