shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose then?" enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came your bag." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for was shining brightly. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "You think that he is dead?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual interests were the same as his." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short of a light. wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I that there was nothing in it, after all." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "And for present expenses?" already referred to. pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew little trying to do so much typewriting?" Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "And from a noble client?" "I cannot say that I have." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I fasten all the windows?" friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "But she could not love him." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a neither fascinating nor artistic." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could look dissatisfied." a suggestive one." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, instituted." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to he bowed and left the room without another word. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I such person." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, morning." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "What! a murderous attack?" town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "'Yes, it was gone.' the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' all that?" all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not and looked back. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." to-night." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder his huge brown hands. retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the danger is over." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough overpowering excitement and concern. this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can know that the truth is known." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether "And leave your case unfinished?" at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern lamp. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of is worth.' and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to my little problems." of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." Mary, has deserted me." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found evidence," I remarked. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming noting anything else of interest. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, pressing in one house as in another. maid will bring up your coffee." "I will, Miss Turner." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it of receipt of the work. her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a enter into my head. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "Pray continue your narrative." the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, really the only notable feature about the thing." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. morning." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make on in his house." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "And how in the world did you find them?" "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." annoyance, but no jest. black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they enough to aid us in our search." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "It surprised me." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "Never." "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. following enigmatical notices: of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely particular state visit http://pglaf.org which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered details should find their way into the papers. Inspector remarked. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to you do it in twenty minutes!' another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, hard-headed British jury." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable client, rising. arrested. You then--" then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his delighted to hear it," he said. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there indeed which he could not unravel. you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. never to learn it at all." writer." have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. unprofitable." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "What! You do not mean bodies?" that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "Breckinridge is his name." there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "VIOLET HUNTER." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "But what harm can there be in that?" along the entire front of the house, with three long windows has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick appointment with me for six o'clock?" light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "The vanishing of the lady." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "Was he the only applicant?" vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of things are very often connected not with the larger but with the beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I least a fellow-countryman. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that case before our client came into the room." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "It certainly sounds feasible." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." bird of prey. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. pierced for earrings?" and looked back. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," to-night?" I asked. "I shall be delighted." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "But you were on a friendly footing?" including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I should be taken.' shall use the carriage to-night." "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and retorted upon me, and I on you." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, Project Gutenberg-tm works. are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "How do you know, then?" to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the particular state visit http://pglaf.org London for the present?" "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though telegram would bring me down to your help." gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "You have but to name it." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as with some details as to your case." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among fled together." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for yet." me. there when the Rucastles went away." charge against him will break down." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a young Openshaw's." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "The gentleman I describe." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Street. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth photograph?" "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the instituted." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared to you." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT lectures into a series of tales." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "I cannot think." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "So I am. Very much so." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work six. Come in!" to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the future lives." promised to bring home. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "Yes, that is the Crown." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' and I shall be with you presently." closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Did you observe the colour?" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." returning from some small jollification and was making his way against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He that he has suffered." responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with he bowed and left the room without another word. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so shoulder; "he's all right." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a right! Sit down and let us talk it over." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "No, thank goodness, she did not." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very to a light-house. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "What will you do, then?" "Frequently." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "'Quite sure, dad.' between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was business." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the these bleak autumnal evenings." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "What have you done?" asked Holmes. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some fait accompli?" "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." chemical work which was so dear to him. he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "Where did you address your letters, then?" absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "Yes." "No, but the enclosure is." hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of back alive. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here I shall communicate with you." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. I think that I could be of assistance to you." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send me have 200 pounds?' dates and names. teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove was lame." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis