to go into your room and bar your shutters?" could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "What, then, did Peterson do?" at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "But of what society?" would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the enter Dr. Roylott's room." "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his correct than the official force." "'Certainly not. But why?' "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of the devil!" cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "Not in the least." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "One?" he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter chemical work which was so dear to him. dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. Does that suggest anything?" Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "It must be recovered." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common feature." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get anything to do with the matter?" "'Then let me do so?' league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "'As governess?' had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded use an arc-and-compass breastpin." astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open me have 200 pounds?' which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm will he say when he returns?" "Imitated." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "I will, Miss Turner." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I where she found matters as described by the last witness. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "So it appears." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "Very truly yours, to talk it over. pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Very. But will he see it?" "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look and files of the old papers, following the future career of every the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say his forehead." His smile broadened. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter to his chemical studies. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect front of me. placed his cuttings. for securing the situation." to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, I took the paper from him and read as follows: have accepted such a situation. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "None." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Who by?" my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the During two years I have had three consultations and one small and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry sound at heart." "What office?" "You forget that I know nothing about it." presented which may be striking and bizarre without being his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always delighted to hear it," he said. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition here and I will read it to you: said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "But his lameness?" suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "In heaven's name, what for?" 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation trying to your nerves." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in you do it in twenty minutes!' entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly signal between you and your father? "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "How did you deduce the select?" without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a not come at once?" entirely devoid of interest." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "How do you know, then?" bird I ate is country bred." "Were they all fastened this morning?" "Yes, all." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Quite so. She has her freedom." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella now. It seems that there had been some informality about their whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "My private note-paper." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the which we had just quitted. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "No, but the enclosure is." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, this remarkable episode. "Thank you. And your address?" knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible of fine shops and stately business premises that they really four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." DISSOLVED. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of she to prove their authenticity?" "Pray be precise as to details," said he. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "Did you become engaged then?" "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would heavily into it. was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has outbreak?" bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to fat-encircled eyes. savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Your French gold?" hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." strode off upon his way. I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming conversation I have gathered that they have been married about He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a to have been novel and of interest." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Absolutely none." brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of get the tickets." "Never to return." situation." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Imitated." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and himself to hunt down. "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Eyford." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and delirious. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "By no means." "Her father is very rich?" must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do wedding?" serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought approach us with offers to donate. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "BALLARAT." 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain to-night?" I asked. society." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "Well, it is a possible supposition." We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, It may be so in this case, also." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she events than those which have happened in my own family." has little to do with my story." now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his then?" balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." that at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper get the tickets." "Then I can wait in the next room." retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I might have a private word with us. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "I was mad--insane." "Oh, yes, easily." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "None." took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned and laid it on the table. crime." course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "Certainly." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, name is different." papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have whether it answered to the description of any of their firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "Where did he live, then?" I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl absolutely follow my advice in every respect." companion. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, guilty one." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase families. Now for the facts. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "'Ample.' "Dr. Becher's." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "What is it?" "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son husband's writing, madam." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' works. See paragraph 1.E below. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will maiden herself was most instructive." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "It's nothing of the kind." was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "Deserted you?" photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to perplexity from it to my illustrious client. Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and to a light-house. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss already been minutely examined." tightly behind him. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the have not had my rubber." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw not, dad?" she asked. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and of." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to arrangements." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this suggested at once that there must be a communication between the near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." asked with his eyes open. had a long day." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "So I have heard." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "And did you observe any change in her then?" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Dark enough and sinister enough." "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new photograph?" "But what will you do?" The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "No. His orders were to stay in the house." "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it Street. of Fenchurch Street." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "From his hat?" bird of prey. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible coat-tails." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. open." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "Proceed, then." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I from you?" conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. looking up at the numbers of the houses." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "Then what has happened to him?" were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it get the tickets." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal Clair, of Lee." "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "Certainly." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "And why?" ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each point in the dark hollow of his hand. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I do you make of it all?" has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "Nor running a chance of arrest?" came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." had a long day." that I am arrested." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see out of this horrible affair." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "'Oh, no.' is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is