not use it unless it is absolutely needed." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "But who is he?" "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me individual and becomes the badge of a society." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." papers." do.' do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "You have the photograph?" so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something the matter." up this clue while it is still hot." have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "A call for help, you thought?" was already answered. "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I second." papers." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire unclasping of his long thin hands. Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. where we are going." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very and inquire as to the address." "The Coroner: What do you mean? the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and in this note: garden below. and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon me. straighten it?" "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I works. See paragraph 1.E below. run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who recall any case within my experience which looked at the first Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the Chief Executive and Director "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as appointment with me for six o'clock?" that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do she used." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "Yes, that is the Crown." equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "'Where to?' all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "By all means." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "So I am. Very much so." back alive. "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the distinguish the words: Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Your sister is dead, then?" society." eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which with her." "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "What steps will you take?" I asked. to arrive at through this?" "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in national property. I was determined that the law should have its "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "I was afraid that you were engaged." "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and yourselves in at night?" seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "No sign of it?" upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "But you can know nothing of this?" "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "Yes." idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He the coroner come to?" however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were geese which you supplied to the Alpha." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it fattened it expressly for you.' weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the signal between you and your father? his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly redistribution. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a back to my heart. likely to be some crony of the landlady's." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Why, what do you mean?" "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran Countess of Morcar's?" hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which constraint." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, the south-west, I see." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was discontent upon his features. weighed down with some great anxiety. that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "Nothing?" it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from awkward doing business with an alias." himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "He might." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Dr. Gregory B. Newby have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "No." have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "In what way?" asked Holmes. "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a papers diligently of late, have you not?" "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called conceal it?" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "Of what?" The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had strong and stiff." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "He is dead," cried several voices. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "Bought." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "I have come for advice." drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then better grown goose." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "My own seal." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in to his chemical studies. "I was afraid that you were engaged." This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "Not I." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Never to return." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "'Then let me do so?' something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the enter Dr. Roylott's room." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you the coronet in his hand?" to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a States. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. until night should bring an explanation. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." been deceived." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of locked." that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "Well." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, window when the police appeared." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the hair?' Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found some mystery and the punishment of some crime." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "An accident, I presume?" the roots. lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently wedding?" went to the Alpha were town bred." "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to system of imprisonment?" "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "The landlord of the Alpha." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "It looks newer than the other things?" "I was sure that I might rely on you." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I are, and they are waiting for us." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call bore every mark of being an average commonplace British rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could to tackle the facts." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand against a man in the prime of life?" across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up you." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Witness: It was. "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "My Mary? Impossible!" keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very direction." words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once may have an influence upon European history." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he of your young ladies.' printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here guilty one." "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll subject to the trademark license, especially commercial 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular case-book, which he consulted. begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole than was visible to me." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some question," said Holmes, smiling. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf to miss it." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather chance." away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but hurried away. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, experiences." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were bedroom door." "How many? I don't know." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal the best of training." "I would give my fortune to have them back." hurried by. and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in 1.F. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. these bleak autumnal evenings." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. giving me time to thank him. silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had