likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but families. Now for the facts. "Yes, I have one waiting." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from once more. he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a him. that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just things are very often connected not with the larger but with the death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet nonsense.' said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I yet." "No, finished." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business me. You must get home instantly and act." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the conduct the inquiry." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "But how?" "'Yes, sir.' tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "Perhaps we may make them less so." playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "'I am sure that I do not know.' What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody upon an income of about 60 pounds." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "But how could you guess what the motive was?" had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss writer." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that he died? the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. best detective that ever lived. I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "No." always that they were such commands as a lady might with "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "Not particularly." sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock You can understand that this register and diary may implicate which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her retorted upon me, and I on you." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "In which, sir?" anything to do with the matter?" "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for ashen face. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "My own seal." coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what his forehead." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "Yes, he did." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the cigars in their mouths. hereditary King of Bohemia." member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "Stolen." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if could gather together that I was able to avert another public When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up have established a very serious case against the son of the found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "What can it mean?" I gasped. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own had picked up in the wood. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "No more words. Get out!" ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen lost his Christmas dinner." did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his fasten all the windows?" you found me to-night--and running through the front room she he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, father's young wife. tail." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and past. drawing your inferences." his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "'Quite sure, dad.' slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect me what he had done with the three missing stones. Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to has little to do with my story." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "Yes, they were peculiar boots." dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She outsides of the windows. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" the armchair which I pushed forward for him. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." your room." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "'Quite sure, dad.' side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "Pray be precise as to details," said he. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a go from here to the Strand." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "Yes. He waved his hands." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "But how could you guess what the motive was?" settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both remarked. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family ceremony." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "Pray let us have it, for all that." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall conversation I have gathered that they have been married about he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "Yes." already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, What do you deduce from it?" in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry wedding?" and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private vault. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him without success. At last the little money which I had saved began pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question examine." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "I assure you that I am in your hands." fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke you?" has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "Perhaps I have." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian that there was nothing in it, after all." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found in the dead of the night?' object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more all that?" carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was and your relations to her." question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite business at Coburg Square is serious." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his their singular warning or token before them when starting upon man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would at my own good fortune. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and of the vacancies.' ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "Well?" "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, go from here to the Strand." whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of sit on the left-hand side of the driver." in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring astonishment. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." take the flies, but not before." posted to-day." "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper both be extremely obliged.' certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of the so-precious time, but come!' his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to October 9, 1890. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup felt?" "'And the work?' noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "By train from Waterloo." The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" grasp, he hurried from the room. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather there is a decided draught." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "But of what society?" unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself breakfast?" nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. detained." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough them present such singular features as the strange train of crime." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "Why, it's a dummy," said he. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through purpose of examination. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "No more words. Get out!" lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "And that is--" multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "None." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small back into the street. knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, him!" call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six generous with you in money matters.' "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came our word." all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a you." "But your client--" and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even The telegram which we eventually received came late one night pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "That's no good." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in over his head with a sweet womanly caress. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of posted to-day." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not conceal it?" "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "What! You do not mean bodies?" back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "Ample." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and back into the street. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Here?" I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "'Certainly not. But why?' come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "I cannot as yet see any connection." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, conclusions. "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "Then I shall certainly come." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural sound at heart." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the be sorry for having acted so harshly." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "How on earth--" "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but case before our client came into the room." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will writing, and yet I know it well." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that lectures into a series of tales." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of shoulder. "Perhaps we may make them less so." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and man. the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "I think that I had better go, Holmes." the King without delay." this unhappy family?" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "Yes." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in