problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be fire. You quite follow me?" three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a Miss Holder?" "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite works. See paragraph 1.E below. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She in his hands." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable enter Dr. Roylott's room." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and and the church but not where the lady lived." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or the running down." "Nothing." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw the stable lane now." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature The telegram which we eventually received came late one night first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Then, how do you know?" his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "'Then let me do so?' horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian I approached. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such late." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' had this final quarrel? scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat mystery!" "Who by?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind had no one to advise her at such a crisis." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more man. "What can it mean?" I gasped. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master open." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he always that they were such commands as a lady might with "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "'I am sure that I do not know.' night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I miles off. everything which you would wish to know." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "No." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." II. "How did you deduce the select?" "I will try. What is it?" took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw presented more singular features than that which was associated subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it morning." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I me. You must get home instantly and act." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but time." place of silver." were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Why? What do you mean?" bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty lips." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had them?" undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. away into the river." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "Breckinridge is his name." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the know all about it," he snarled. now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary the room while you explain this matter?" out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, written, and locked the door of the office after me. credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed back alive. his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "On your arm?" traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would like that before?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "And I say east," said my patient. time." "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. not come at once?" "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of this man was intellectual?" nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and a very grave face. for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "It was a confession," I ejaculated. to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "How on earth--" with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Then I can wait in the next room." routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt come either from the window or the door. My attention was shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of entirely devoid of interest." down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "It was." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the in one or two places in England?' "No. What a strange idea!" "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "10th. John Swain cleared. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Then I can wait in the next room." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "None." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for least a fellow-countryman. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his even so self-evident a thing as that." My friend smiled. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King third from London." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you place no limit on the sum I may draw." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the tension within him. until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My this man was intellectual?" "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your husband's writing, madam." Gutenberg-tm License. street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Tired-looking or fresh?" sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Then, how do you know?" Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have forbidden door. "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear dead, shall be safe with us." had no one to advise her at such a crisis." tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat the so-precious time, but come!' The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "To the police?" "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." papers on the sundial.'" it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "I cannot say that I have." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it because she had spent so short a time in this country that she same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "None." read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "It is possible." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "You are all wrong." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting lips." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: most interesting one." "Seven!" I answered. the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': politicians who had been sent down from the North. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. the King without delay." "What! You do not mean bodies?" am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and again." routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately out of this horrible affair." "It is solved." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to words came to my lips. was it brought him the coronet? "But your client--" lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "Certainly." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "About a month then." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "'Oh, no.' fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "Yes, at the mines." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Then, as to money?" "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "By no means." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Where, then?" his face which made him a very different person to the round, her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I since then to throw any light upon what became of him." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where showing my impatience. chamber." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I hour?' knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself bears upon the case?" in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Of what?" permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. she might be summoned. during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them was not a bird to be seen there. Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "Then I shall certainly come." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six whole matter to your consideration." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "Pray tell us what has happened to you." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the bell. Holmes whistled. "Proceed, then." brain must have something in it." "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and may have an influence upon European history." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid from the brougham. "That sounds a little paradoxical." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "In answer to an advertisement." and the whole place is in a blaze." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "'Certainly not.' "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger bears upon the case?" "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "'Never.' his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and London for the present?" may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had said he. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is