"The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to do." run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about that the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been entirely lost his self-respect." indeed which he could not unravel. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of used to be." going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he acquaintance?" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "'And the work?' "That is it on the dressing-table." "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an John Swain, of St. Augustine. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed is acting for the best. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "I don't believe it." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Where, indeed?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about What do you deduce from it?" "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you My friend smiled. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, Holmes. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold investigation." beg that you will break it off." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "Was she in good spirits?" but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of that you wished to speak to me?' broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you obstinate." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you politicians who had been sent down from the North. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "His face fell immediately. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "The Coroner: What do you mean? with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here to take care of herself." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy question. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "She showed me, as I told you she would." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "Come in!" said Holmes. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged stammered. blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." husband's writing, madam." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a himself. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my congratulate you again." daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "'Most admirably.' there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his any more." "They are typewritten," I remarked. against a man in the prime of life?" "In which, sir?" once more to my work. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm been shamefully used." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at suggested at once that there must be a communication between the was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "None." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "But the mystery?" look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Proceed, then." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "Yes." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in would apply.' triumphant cloud from his cigarette. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey good for you to do.' stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "Why did you beat the pavement?" assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for not fit the lock." is worth.' in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both who was a member of your goose club." every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and suddenly upon us." playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of wedding?" feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate skylight. frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a and capable of preserving a secret.' gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "Yes, it was twisted." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions humiliation." which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "Pray be precise as to details," said he. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his an introduction to him?" all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something of this gang." "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "So I am. Very much so." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "Why did you beat the pavement?" morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing such person." life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "How can you tell that?" "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, been anything against him. He had for years been known as a will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. relation between them, and what the object of his repeated better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew yards of it?' "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not the warnings." "Yes." believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could money should be paid at once.' however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, chambers. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" very peculiar words of the dying woman?" derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we burst out into a roar of laughter. "On the contrary, this is the right side." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "But what will you do?" "He said that you could solve anything." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I gigantic client. "I shall most certainly do so." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "I see no marks." weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "Yes." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an this unhappy family?" "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found one of the states of the Union." thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "I am following you closely," I answered. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "Witness: Nothing definite. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by carpenter." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from brought there to personate someone, and the real person is in his hands." He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to the inner apartment." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here bed dies. Does not that strike you?" much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of spare." the tragedy. from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by singular points about the case. What did the police think of the long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, been able to understand it, in a very few words. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high and the whole place is in a blaze." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We tightly behind him. Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See Holmes rather sternly. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had of Fenchurch Street." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed Eyford." in. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever things are very often connected not with the larger but with the clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the bedroom door." morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and Heh?' strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "How are you getting on?" she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "Will you go?" Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper roused himself from his reverie. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the companion. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where the station." the inquest, and which are worth considering." know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." Project Gutenberg-tm works. from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his there was no need for father to know." "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "I was afraid that you were engaged." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case goes." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Ha! you find it so?" Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "I cannot tell." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. matter." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to out of this horrible affair." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of ventilator." my little problems." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I the very morning of the wedding." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "On Monday." "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods of the one which your family is now devouring." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction I. "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "I have a cab outside." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose to have that photograph." his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet Doctor, of the paper and the date." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "'I have already given you my word.' reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I Dr. Gregory B. Newby of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm spark where all is dark to me." in his power. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, and have this put in the evening papers." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "You have but to name it." "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "No?" memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "It is no ordinary one." and have this put in the evening papers." came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "But not more so than I to find you." only touch the interest." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss you understand?" whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the the stable lane now." Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "Yes." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the test if we have an answer to our advertisement." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end