walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in What do you deduce from it?" her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Holmes." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to there was no need for father to know." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits examination of the premises, but without finding anything which and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a Holmes' thin, eager face. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of unkempt, staring out at me. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I What do you deduce from it?" "How did he come?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind ordinary clothes on?" filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then there were one or two details which were new to me. But the matter over." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "'And the work?' my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a electronic works at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as humiliation." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "Very well, sir. And this stone?" trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Nothing?" letters?" "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Perhaps I have." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "'I am sure that I do not know.' it." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought as he remarks, very much against the son." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "My opinion is in no way altered." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers "What have you to say now?" business matters.' "Indeed! Whose, then?" "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good what do you think they found in the pockets?" Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers indeed happy." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" cigars in their mouths. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. morning." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" train.' piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband conclusions. where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was residence of the great financier. I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Come in!" said he. about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you used to be." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the ourselves in the office." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." remarked. usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "The King of Scandinavia." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "It was." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each entirely devoid of interest." Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded the very morning of the wedding." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, be best to do. part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if IS work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the problems help me to do so." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind distinguish the words: in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "Perfectly so." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his examine." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "I don't say that. Perhaps." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "And how did you verify them?" "The landlord of the Alpha." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see the roots. little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I lips." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon everything which you would wish to know." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "It is solved." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a door?" assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a situation." "None. Neville wrote those words." father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without notes," he said. "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." easy-going way." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices door?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "It is very kind of you." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table miles off. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable is now desirous of getting those letters back." precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "To ruin me." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of stammered. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my very morning of my second wedding." unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed which I could not give. He asked for Alice. IS "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I or other trace. But how on earth--" twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred particular state visit http://pglaf.org brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "Very truly yours, its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "So I have heard." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small touch that coronet?' have got?" bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. done what I asked you, Jones?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much paper in the air. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. again on its way. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this not fit the lock." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "No, I am descending." that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had address. colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Come in!" said he. over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "Well, some hundreds of times." but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these outbreak?" see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine correct than the official force." was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "She walked into the breakfast-room." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his the Red-headed League." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "No, I am descending." go from here to the Strand." the room while you explain this matter?" here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to It was close upon four before the door opened, and a permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the this Miss Turner." product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "And is that all?" not interfere, come what may. You understand?" wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a telegram would bring me down to your help." "I am armed." his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest look upon these things in a different way." "Absolutely none." fatally injured? with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Certainly." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "You don't mind breaking the law?" We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about danger is over." it." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "And I." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "But how did you gain them?" "I will not look." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was silent! Oh, he will be silent!' He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "What! a murderous attack?" miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate Countess of Morcar's?" absorbing." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. hour." and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever you in your example." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He together. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building that the gas is not laid on in his house?" future lives." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back back into the street. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Certainly." will not take me long to tell. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs know all about it," he snarled. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "'Certainly,' I answered. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Not yet." forebodings. across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates sake, don't!" "The Coroner: What do you mean? ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, and effective." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up Doctor, of the paper and the date." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "How do you know, then?" He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Breckinridge is his name." Clair, of Lee." "Perhaps we may make them less so." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called existence." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has examine." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "'What then?' I asked. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "How can you tell that?" a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards Holmes' room. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "It missed him, then?" "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I opened the door, and slipped through. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "I don't say that. Perhaps." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "It came here." brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each very morning of my second wedding." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal within hail.' some city in a dream. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here woman who has had her own way to make in the world. memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "No, finished." "You forget that I know nothing about it." generous with you in money matters.' flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me you do it in twenty minutes!' much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, have accepted such a situation. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "One horse?" interjected Holmes. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, made him keep the appointment." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." approach us with offers to donate. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "And Miss Sutherland?" "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "'Most admirably.' have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before the dangers which encompass me." answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was