"Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was more terrible than the truth. Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry Farm upon the left." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of criminal. We have already had experience of such." one which it was hard to resist. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to on re-entering her father's house?" was lame." never to learn it at all." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "Pray continue your narrative." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. information in his hands the value of which he did not himself the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "It certainly sounds feasible." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my him and tried to hold him back. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another figure." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell main points of my analysis." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "Her father is very rich?" point in the dark hollow of his hand. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid upon the white wrist. confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "Yes, sir." them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "So I am. Very much so." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out my secret was safe in his possession. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" fear." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried dramatic, in fact." horse could go." you." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once look dissatisfied." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the such attractions and accomplishments?' "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "Who was the criminal, then?" 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any appeared upon the scene." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner hardly wander." quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "Have you it here?" with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "'Yes, it was gone.' "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "But she will refuse." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of have got?" determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few himself. details." his forehead." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. hurried by. filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "In what way?" asked Holmes. orange pips. "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project key turn in the lock." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one strength of mind to control. "Won't it ring?" "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "In the cells." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "A call for help, you thought?" Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I correct than the official force." Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this bed dies. Does not that strike you?" maiden herself was most instructive." memory. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "An enemy?" view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' it." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, to Leatherhead. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." security.' "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in strength of mind to control. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "'A dozen yards or so.' "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "And how in the world did you find them?" peculiar to him. plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. thin legs towards the fire. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that any." dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would seem to you to be relevant or not." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my roused himself from his reverie. in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice strong and stiff." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "I should wish to." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke narrative." result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "Do you receive much company?" he asked. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand answer." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. your co-operation." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." them, and came down just as you departed. of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had formed some opinion?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was some water from a caraffe. "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "Was he the only applicant?" "You are all wrong." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "I shall be delighted." she used." "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark this as likely?" the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Nothing." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon must compliment you." "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came speckled band?" been anything against him. He had for years been known as a anything to do with the matter?" what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Entirely." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "I cannot think." feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his interest. They are important, you understand, without being was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of deduce something from that?" nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my father's young wife. the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of this truth that in these little records of our cases which you the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Yes, sir." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that miles off. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn in the hope of finding them." was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See arms and began to sob in a high treble key. money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a companion. national property. I was determined that the law should have its though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from look dissatisfied." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. the little opening for the ventilator is." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, second." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and breakfast and whispered something to her husband. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." back to my heart. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the him to be an active member of the medical profession." PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." habit of advancing money.' Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "Well, but China?" "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the woman who has had her own way to make in the world. cheerful." "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and are, I think, all that we need." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I forehead. absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely three of the beryls in it, was missing. how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "My own seal." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to are windows in it, of course?" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and about. chamber." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that him and tried to hold him back. careless servant girl?" "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." bedroom door." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. think that he is innocent?" upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, said Mr. Holder. "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel was once confined in the cab my mission was practically said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to right! Sit down and let us talk it over." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I do.' fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress address. "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been could gather together that I was able to avert another public pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he interest. They are important, you understand, without being Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the bearing upon the case." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "'Yes, sir.' road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set it." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a emerged. when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." your co-operation." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Very murderous indeed." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "You did not overhear what they said?" "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained call the police, let the police find what they can.' continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "In San Francisco, a year ago." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to of fine shops and stately business premises that they really from the brougham. I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. you." "But he might be a bachelor." "Yes." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "But to whom?" "I think it very unlikely." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Will you bet, then?" many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are weigh very heavily upon my conscience." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name address. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, yards of it?' point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are simple cases which are so extremely difficult." either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "Then I can wait in the next room." beyond words. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when yards of it?' over with notes and figures. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Then, as to money?" case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction it." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence answered with a sidelong glance. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "That sounds a little paradoxical." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the the King without delay." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to