connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were prisoner's face. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall strong reason behind." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "And how did he make his money?" not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "The murder was done with it." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "This photograph!" responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one room. "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, disappearance of the bride.'" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew excitement. "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the of a light. crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was security.' year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "Will you bet, then?" "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the enter Dr. Roylott's room." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I waste of energy." You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other will he say when he returns?" and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "But how?" possible that we could bring him back to her? before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "'I am sure if I had known--' have an American origin." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so place of silver." had picked up in the wood. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the place of silver." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were heavily into it. into the bag, and made for the door. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, shag which I had seen upon the previous night. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and what I may call a really hard day's work." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Why did you beat the pavement?" foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is strength in the others." British peeress.'" find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with advice." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "'Ten to two.' and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "But I have heard all that you have heard." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in said I. union?" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" door?" reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "I am in hopes that she does." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of hurried by. "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, asked. The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink But Holmes shook his head gravely. during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was status with the IRS. right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and have an American origin." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know this poor creature." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and minor matters until to-morrow." tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand him to go away.' exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "It is half-past ten now." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "'Stolen!' he cried. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. are, I think, all that we need." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "None." towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "When did it break out?" roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, for securing the situation." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking II. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Why did you pick him?" age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "What! You do not mean bodies?" speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "You are hungry," I remarked. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this unclasping of his long thin hands. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. out of this horrible affair." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of in this way: individual and becomes the badge of a society." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which before, for it was considerably after midnight. in the dead of the night?' which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very I nodded to show that I had heard. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. that I am arrested." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. on in his house." and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary mystery!" wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his investigation." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally For additional contact information: hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several friends, not even his own brother. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, yards of it?' lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "'Tell me all about it,' said I. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "And I." upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came DAMAGE. generous with you in money matters.' go--none." bird I ate is country bred." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been forebodings. from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "My dear Holmes!" it." will he say when he returns?" such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "I will not look." are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport mysterious business." his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards But Holmes shook his head gravely. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason unclasping of his long thin hands. your sleep?' him to be an active member of the medical profession." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you I nodded again. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "I shall be delighted." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle I took the paper from him and read as follows: "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "In answer to an advertisement." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no companion imperturbably. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "What do you make of that, Watson?" '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the invisible to me," I remarked. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "I will try. What is it?" I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort "Not particularly." power." one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on foresight and the moral retrogression?" Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "Married! When?" should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "And it is--" the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say Eyford." outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A stepfather?" it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." quite distinctive." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "At the wedding breakfast." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few this man was intellectual?" Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "But the mystery?" "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Your sister is dead, then?" "Absolutely none." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a floor. tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "Very truly yours, the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, at home. You want to know what became of those geese?" and prosperity to your house. Good-night." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded them?" her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" easy-going way." quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this go--none." "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "It is half-past ten now." breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat should be so warm over such a trifle." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of became a certainty. 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong thought that she would have been so carried away." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Then what has happened to him?" "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project Dr. Gregory B. Newby "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "'Is purely nominal.' "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "Always." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Then he might have called to you?" the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. respectable self." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every about here speaks of his kindness to him." have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a to-night." Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "Your presence might be invaluable." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "'Ten to two.' swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me wedding?" "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "I am armed." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "Could he throw no light?" when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "What are they?" coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the photograph a cabinet?" nonsense.' prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "No." the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are other lovers by making love himself." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking perplexity from it to my illustrious client. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "One of the highest in England." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to allusion to a rat. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a his forehead." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It to affect your life." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little vault. "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls you." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "It is true that I have been generally successful." get her out of the way." "I will get her to show me." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a