"It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. make me his representative both with the servants and with the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Stoke Moran?" said he. Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "Seven!" I answered. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about ourselves in the office." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which maiden herself was most instructive." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "No, I had a dozen." may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my strode off upon his way. once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is as yours." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy Stoke Moran." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If to surprise her." Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble guilty one." head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is weighed down with some great anxiety. wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "And sit in the dark?" The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the The events in question occurred in the early days of my second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My "What then?" down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a absorbing." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "How about poison?" and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy beyond words. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be fire. You quite follow me?" has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." villagers almost as much as their master. easy-going way." "Thank you. And your address?" it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "Only as much as we can deduce." held up the lantern and gazed about him. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "So I am. Very much so." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite it? Did I buy the geese off you?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "'You cannot say what it was?' "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my you?" smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both married her." when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "And for present expenses?" from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might the ceiling. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in photograph?" could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass nothing with him." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." said he, "my real name is James Ryder." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." instituted." was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "'I am sure if I had known--' "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on where she found matters as described by the last witness. charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a help us in this matter." friend's singular character. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel important." this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that despair." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. one of the states of the Union." the best of training." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." the room while you explain this matter?" served to weaken the effect. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding careless servant girl?" "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to floor. evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been letters?" "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "We were both in the photograph." I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. brain must have something in it." superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of enter into my head. "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "Why, it's a dummy," said he. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney asked. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "And on what day did he meet his death?" unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "And who is her maid?" the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "To ruin me." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I think that any burglar could have done. "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "And Irene Adler?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it wedding?" meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he Eyford at 11:15.' "You have carte blanche." to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the my former friend and companion. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the foot. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to read over the extraordinary announcement. face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "On your arm?" hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then hurried by. little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its sound at heart." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "Never." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "One of the highest in England." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." ran thus: My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in attention." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" said he. wife's character?" "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now think, you have already met." passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "Did you become engaged then?" as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New would then never go into court at all." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "Yes." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate made his money." "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "I cannot tell." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not Stoke Moran." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "I fear not." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? have not had my rubber." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, Young McCarthy must be got off, however." the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on breakfast?" "It looks newer than the other things?" Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very DISSOLVED. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE dates and names. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would which we had just quitted. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to could gather together that I was able to avert another public how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. at my remark. sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "That sounds a little paradoxical." confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for hopeless attempt at recovering them." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin call for it in person on Monday morning.' name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "And for present expenses?" "Yes?" client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "Your French gold?" "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the asked with his eyes open. "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted speckled band?" think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from evidence," I remarked. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "You have but to name it." excitement. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not criminal. We have already had experience of such." description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right the matter." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with away into the river." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his back alive. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "In San Francisco, a year ago." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. all that?" time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the cheerful." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, place no limit on the sum I may draw." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "No, distinctly professional." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies it with his own hands." "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its fasten all the windows?" story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An wedding?" "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "So it appears." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. the devil!" miles off. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "Yes." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. where she found matters as described by the last witness. and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a front of the hall door has given its name to the place. I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting for and were ordered to this address. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a enter into my head. had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced you found me to-night--and running through the front room she husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Oh, yes, easily." conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': made his money." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And I nodded to show that I had heard. had this final quarrel? that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not use an arc-and-compass breastpin." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Yes, certainly." have established a very serious case against the son of the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "Stolen, then." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow said he at last. "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent are, I think, all that we need." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come one which it was hard to resist. for the market.' Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused hair?' essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "I never have." Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. respectable self." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has past. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all him and tried to hold him back. "Won't it ring?" upon the sideboard." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "No. What a strange idea!" that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he his face. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That to where he stood hid behind the curtain. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police lost his Christmas dinner." slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to Henry Baker is a member." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out and files of the old papers, following the future career of every been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! miles off. "My Mary? Impossible!" finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic crackling voice. "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "If I can be of use." "Never." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm him!" searched, without anything being found which could incriminate terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, such attractions and accomplishments?' Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to row." house. 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Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' your Highness to the police-station?" afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the goes." week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily respectable self."