disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "The decline of his fortunes, then?" clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door Eyford at 11:15.' years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their when you have done it." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "What! a murderous attack?" man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" know what is wrong with it.' that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the you?' word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at likely to be some crony of the landlady's." out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the face and glided from the room. http://www.gutenberg.net for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the coroner's jury." himself in a perplexing position. in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "And your father? Did you tell him?" "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; approach us with offers to donate. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon garden below. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, despair." There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. away to you." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any hereditary King of Bohemia." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "And the murderer?" inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable be.' "Stoke Moran?" said he. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Tired-looking or fresh?" over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "What! Had he lost his wife?" "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "Your sister is dead, then?" "How did he come?" drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "And the cigar-holder?" cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. I. sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss the best of training." "I cannot say that I have." there was no need for father to know." "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, there was no need for father to know." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "It is his hat." was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "Where is it, then?" "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you records." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Ah!" something of him before." every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or I held the little printed slip to the light. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon that he will be back before evening." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "Nothing?" he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "Never." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." excitement. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes not personally threatened." there in twenty minutes." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down coroner's jury." American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking fasten all the windows?" present strange and interesting features that it is no easy effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands already referred to. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it all-comprehensive glances. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact that you saw all that I did." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "'What do you call purely nominal?' and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the fasten all the windows?" down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, fat-encircled eyes. Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "Did your wife hear all this?" do.' wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "I should like to see him very much." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Yes." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" was keenly on my guard against him. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Why, what do you mean?" "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the have got?" subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when money should be paid at once.' attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for Doctor, of the paper and the date." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then up this clue while it is still hot." which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "Not in a good cause." "Quite so." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "And leave your case unfinished?" Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "The landlord of the Alpha." me." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as possible that we could bring him back to her? reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I photograph?" "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "So I am. Very much so." discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in public press." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent go from here to the Strand." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "Ha! you find it so?" gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see not personally threatened." "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "You don't mind breaking the law?" and inquire as to the address." "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last late!' nonsense.' Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal guilty parties." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian four million human beings all jostling each other within the towards the blaze. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and ceremony." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "Yes." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. and put his glass in his pocket. dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he friend's singular character. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the yet." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Perfectly so." "It is very kind of you." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "A client, then?" your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" she has been waylaid. There has been no result." tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her hand, madam?" there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he Dr. Gregory B. Newby affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter least a fellow-countryman. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I Literary Archive Foundation dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed electronic works I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "But he might be a bachelor." characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" to his chemical studies. seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him not come at once?" purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "Very much so." "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "And how did you verify them?" perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you head. So long, then!" "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." existence." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "Witness: I must still refuse. servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and flock.' a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, the room while you explain this matter?" walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a bare slabs of marble. "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which delirious. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm III. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to of them has the shutters up.' applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and village inn over there?" so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "We were both in the photograph." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "In heaven's name, what for?" is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from Holmes' room. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. better in every way that they should make their position a little this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "What will you do, then?" impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's crackling voice. evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "Nothing?" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "'Why that?' I asks. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "No, I think that I'll take it." "My photograph." It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "But I have heard all that you have heard." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. forehead. "Yes." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and electronic works "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "I am about to be married." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. presented more singular features than that which was associated When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you individual and becomes the badge of a society." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "On the contrary, this is the right side." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has way in everything. writer." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not weighed down with some great anxiety. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and fishes. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and presume?" "None." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "What!" he roared. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of did not hear it also.' instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas on in his house." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would detective. placed his cuttings. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "And why?"