inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "Absolutely none." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and the best of training." like gravel from a pit.' of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "When did she vanish, then?" determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, it. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "About a month then." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots fishes. "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but national property. I was determined that the law should have its "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "Nor running a chance of arrest?" about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "None. Neville wrote those words." "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "When did it break out?" train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be fire. You quite follow me?" "But the mystery?" permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the 1.E.9. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss the ceiling. "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "Dirty?" "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "'Then let me do so?' corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "What is it?" lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "I have seen the police." regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As a very grave face. there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy it." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have for the market.' you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Yes, sir." bare slabs of marble. up this clue while it is still hot." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned problems help me to do so." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has This is what he says: bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her investigation." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have criminal. We have already had experience of such." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Very truly yours, "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at some place of shelter and let the county police know what has which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the to affect your life." "Yesterday." "And on what day did he meet his death?" pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United again, where I was soon asleep. "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "And how did he make his money?" three fields round his house, and there he would take his disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church read it out to me." simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each to have been novel and of interest." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I I am not easy in my mind about them." character. feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey less than 26s. 4d. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager man. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of help us in this matter." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has and your relations to her." "It certainly sounds feasible." something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "But you have hopes?" massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence secret." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All a monotonous occupation." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." returning from some small jollification and was making his way caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden heavy and sharp instrument." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect bore every mark of being an average commonplace British memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "VIOLET HUNTER." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "But she will refuse." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "Ah, but I was recommended to you." see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried crowd. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "'Yes, sir.' incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough narrative." copied or distributed: observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "When did she vanish, then?" morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his room had already been engaged for us. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "You horrify me." "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, sooner or later she must fall a victim. confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' that there was nothing in it, after all." "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were quick march!" hour?' "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "And sit in the dark?" request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the had died away into the silence from which it rose. carried out of court." success. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm back alive. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a appointment with me for six o'clock?" minor matters until to-morrow." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. security.' seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut What do you deduce from it?" some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the maiden herself was most instructive." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the public press." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came business matters.' "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed your equipment. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as placed his cuttings. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "You don't mind breaking the law?" change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "Here?" you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Entirely." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having chill to my heart. weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "What! Had he lost his wife?" "And your mother is alive?" detained." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at someone who had been in Australia." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "Then I can wait in the next room." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. for securing the situation." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Well." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of gone. "Ha! you find it so?" front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have him. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. affection." with some details as to your case." you give your casting vote to?" slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated business?" his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Nothing." one of them." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "Game for a morning drive?" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire she has been waylaid. There has been no result." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "I answered that I had not. "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning in. time." if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." fatally injured? last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. only touch the interest." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "No more words. Get out!" could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "Nothing." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "None." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, telegram would bring me down to your help." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she main points of my analysis." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given his fortune, and I went back to pa. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a trifles." what do you think they found in the pockets?" "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "It missed him, then?" ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can our word." within hail.' arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, the loss of it. happened." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been and all of them with the keenest interest. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "This photograph!" man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "Can I be of assistance?" Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put go from here to the Strand." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of been deceived." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence to affect your life." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "Why, what do you mean?" trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Yes." this unhappy family?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "'Which dealer's?' noting anything else of interest. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those emerged. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of examination of the premises, but without finding anything which dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo house for five minutes.' vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your carriage. It was a chestnut." thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "I cannot tell." could gather together that I was able to avert another public entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. lost nothing by them." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here recover the gem." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his recover the gem." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "You think so, too?" the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these place, I think that there is good ground to think that the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "It came here." tail." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Yes, that is the Crown." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Very truly yours, pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "You are certainly joking, Holmes."