"This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have begin with, and I had not got mine yet." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang was shining brightly. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had felt the room to be a little close.' bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, shoulder; "he's all right." instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in considering the formidable letters which were received by himself geese which you supplied to the Alpha." you in your example." relation between them, and what the object of his repeated it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the Clair, of Lee." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my strange features which were associated with the two crimes which Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "No." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came disappearance of the bride.'" "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "But she could not love him." paper in the air. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from enter into my head. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having said I. "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at "None." and put his glass in his pocket. dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its what I may call a really hard day's work." her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every be sorry for having acted so harshly." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, fire. You quite follow me?" the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his knowledge of the world." both be extremely obliged.' the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "My own seal." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, recall any case within my experience which looked at the first unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "Come in!" said he. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go about. character. strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low done what I asked you, Jones?" was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would to tell." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "Was he the only applicant?" "Of what day?" you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "Just look it up, then." paper in the air. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both murdered man." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The seem to you to be relevant or not." of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "It's nothing of the kind." it. "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small lumber-room." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, any." brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "But who is he?" my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." to me. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without approach us with offers to donate. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always your billet.' At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and made him keep the appointment." union?" "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, But Holmes shook his head gravely. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "I say it is." strode off upon his way. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a problems help me to do so." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "I was sure that I might rely on you." "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "But your client--" Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." tear off another piece?' populous neighbourhood." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, rat could hardly pass through." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "In heaven's name, what for?" "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but at home. door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the shall use the carriage to-night." companion quietly. whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, the coronet in his hands?" At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Yes." wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An directors have had misgivings upon the subject." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his "When did she vanish, then?" http://www.gutenberg.net that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for papers must be those that are destroyed.' grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses tell him that I know him to be innocent." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Yes." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "Has he come with you to-night?" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in held up the lantern and gazed about him. "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "Quite so. She has her freedom." my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "'What are you doing there?' he asked. Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical ways including including checks, online payments and credit card adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it here." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most said I. disturbance in my wife." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "On Monday." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A upon an income of about 60 pounds." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties himself. There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as might have a private word with us. Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to approach us with offers to donate. case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save you, my dear young lady?' when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. past. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether main points of my analysis." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had dear old homesteads?" I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. brandy and water within his reach. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "I see many objections to any such theory." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to nothing with him." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow invisible to me," I remarked. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once closing the door. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his my secret was safe in his possession. however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, conversation I have gathered that they have been married about pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the it means?" happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his evidence," I remarked. "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my I shall communicate with you." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "'And the work?' our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a may have an influence upon European history." supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water events than those which have happened in my own family." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "What have you done?" asked Holmes. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "She showed me, as I told you she would." the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a redistribution. were new raised from a basin. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and of his shoulders. "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I where we are going." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "The landlord of the Alpha." wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that said he. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little look upon these things in a different way." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found overpowering excitement and concern. in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all walking." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I away to you." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and of a light. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, disturbance in my wife." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have infinite languor in his face. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There all that?" was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Then he might have called to you?" twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this Lee, in the county of Kent." often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Do you know him?" Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to question," said Holmes, smiling. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The I nodded to show that I had heard. "But who is he?" us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice silent! Oh, he will be silent!' one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since relation between them, and what the object of his repeated strength of mind to control. in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous 1.E.9. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side DISSOLVED. cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "Here?" "And how did he make his money?" Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "You have compromised yourself seriously." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are Miss Holder?" would then never go into court at all." Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "What then?" rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door you give your casting vote to?" the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen joking. news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in fattened it expressly for you.' "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, country, and eventually married, without anyone having a foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be few hundred pounds.' where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "I will try. What is it?" The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "Certainly, madam." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Well." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "Very much so." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, side. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, prison!" applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. where she found matters as described by the last witness. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for Leadenhall Street--and--" As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do just called myself is not exactly my own." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As excitement. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just system of imprisonment?" behind me. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at just called myself is not exactly my own." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." morning." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who here and I will read it to you: "Imitated." not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round closing the door. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been you."