save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. The summons was a brief and urgent one. drawing your inferences." was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had breakfast." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I fear." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "Where did he live, then?" "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did pierced for earrings?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate the very letters. But what is this written above them?' wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "I cannot tell." speckled band?" jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "Yes, they were peculiar boots." who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "Your presence might be invaluable." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, occurred." "If I can be of use." answer." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, strode off upon his way. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching which our visitor detailed to us. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his never will be, entirely cleared up. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the her also." "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "My stepfather's business papers." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of man. "Game for a morning drive?" who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I about. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "None. Neville wrote those words." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his have I gained?" shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Who was the criminal, then?" expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" second." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "I would give my fortune to have them back." once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "No, but the enclosure is." was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went politicians who had been sent down from the North. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Now, then, what's the last entry?" years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to passage and a tap at the door. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, breakfast." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only figure." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few this man was intellectual?" In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I lamp in his hand. us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Not particularly." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps done what I asked you, Jones?" days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor October 9, 1890. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a help us in this matter." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring that?' and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for breakfast." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, bled considerably." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are nice household for a young lady." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush never will be, entirely cleared up. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon written, and locked the door of the office after me. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves him to be an active member of the medical profession." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest may have an influence upon European history." "I say that I have solved it." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "You will not go there first?" manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the shall use the carriage to-night." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or this as likely?" "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the signal between you and your father? within hail.' compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "Is he quiet?" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" Stoke Moran." when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "Not yet." and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly Literary Archive Foundation time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised said he. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "And Miss Sutherland?" Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "I have hopes." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "I don't say that. Perhaps." Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "That is it on the dressing-table." side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her villagers almost as much as their master. case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "Yes." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be McCarthy's innocence. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and easy-going way." suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear and your relations to her." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us started for the Temple to see my husband. thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "She will not sell." "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up she has been waylaid. There has been no result." crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to developed." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of be. "What will you do, then?" that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a Holmes." out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to know what is wrong with it.' chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "None." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "Quite so. She has her freedom." occupations.' determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." been deceived." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "I don't say that. Perhaps." "Will you go?" time." "And for present expenses?" which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards other lovers by making love himself." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' Clair, of Lee." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp may have an influence upon European history." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. said he. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to over his head with a sweet womanly caress. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him opened a pocket-book and took out a note. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. and I shall be with you presently." at my remark. January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I woman who has had her own way to make in the world. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might hour?' of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "I shall most certainly do so." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "But what is it you wish?" examine." turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. your own bird, so if you wish--" gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in him and tried to hold him back. hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "No. His orders were to stay in the house." figure." you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "How do you know, then?" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an burst into a hearty fit of laughter. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, we went to search for him, face downward in a little Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it off." "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly business?" typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and the running down." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked strode off upon his way. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." fattened it expressly for you.' daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this Count Von Kramm." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "Then I am your man." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, any more." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" there!' his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master narrative." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" the little opening for the ventilator is." secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Why serious?" have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be and the whole place is in a blaze." "Murdered?" Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich affair. It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in photograph?" be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a papers." the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his of them has the shutters up.' without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be new acquaintance to Baker Street. "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "But his lameness?" purpose equally well?" stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his you." met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us cost them two and thirty pounds." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "And I." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which hands. wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the that the gas is not laid on in his house?" and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "She showed me, as I told you she would." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "On Monday." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, conclusions. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I what these perils are?" word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Sutherland?" "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to to tackle the facts." my secret was safe in his possession.