is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Yes." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest been lifted and conveyed somewhere." who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, this truth that in these little records of our cases which you shoulder; "he's all right." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "Did you become engaged then?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, go back?" "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. the best of training." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was sparkled upon his finger. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." most interesting one." than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "Never to return." beyond words. instituted." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "But you have hopes?" Serpentine Avenue. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson danger is over." money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what is a common subject for conversation. transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he is acting for the best. secret." "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "I promise," said Holmes. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad letters?" Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when DAMAGE. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "Dirty?" however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is walking." "I have my revolver," said I. is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that or in danger--" instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of States. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "Who by?" the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up "So I heard. You have him here?" I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the system of imprisonment?" showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a held up the lantern and gazed about him. were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "Not in a good cause." first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even night.' said he. corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was certainly not very gracious." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, key of the affair now." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no place no limit on the sum I may draw." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Where to?" "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing wife's character?" "'Which dealer's?' applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the observed. "A call for help, you thought?" providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "Not I." Leadenhall Street--and--" admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in your equipment. reach." long narrative. more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner round and wave him away like that.' "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a question. "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "Which are?" miles off. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend pierced for earrings?" will take you up to see the machine.' well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that which our visitor detailed to us. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small redistribution. which our visitor detailed to us. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney narrative." tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was forbidden door. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "Yes." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the passage and a tap at the door. "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, strong reason behind." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "And your father? Did you tell him?" we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden his grey eyes. his fortune, and I went back to pa. I was concerned in it." "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you records." up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been cause to be." in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish the driver. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon brought there to personate someone, and the real person is and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "No. What a strange idea!" him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the at a side door. Count Von Kramm." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his row." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, entirely lost his self-respect." morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Yes, that is the Crown." up this clue while it is still hot." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through yet." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. as he folded up the epistle. savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Your French gold?" Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very and it need not interfere very much with one's other "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "This photograph!" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, emerged. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "I came to find a friend." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." Countess of Morcar's?" and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Very. But will he see it?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring noting anything else of interest. "You saw the ventilator, too?" the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of been lifted and conveyed somewhere." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before of fine shops and stately business premises that they really whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. charge against him will break down." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which interested in these little problems, and since you are good "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You present." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "I think that it is very probable." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, any little problem which you may submit to me." that threaten you." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass intrusion of other matters." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "May I see it?" really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get criminal. We have already had experience of such." worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me developed." others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "That was it, sir." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "'Where to?' that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with prison!" "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Certainly." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard wanted for ourselves." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She key of the affair now." "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." would apply.' Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our October 9, 1890. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "How many? I don't know." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "Could he throw no light?" which was all perfectly true. balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "10th. John Swain cleared. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "It is possible." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." of his shoulders. the window, rose as we entered. the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the Henry Baker is a member." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to once more on the important position which you have been fortunate strode off upon his way. me have 200 pounds?' "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that some city in a dream. conceal it?" very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Heh?' He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "In what way?" asked Holmes. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt http://www.gutenberg.net "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "What I expected to see." constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you once more to my work. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I his huge brown hands. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were extraordinary contortions. memory. black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, me upon any point which I do not make clear." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in I approached. the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my window when the police appeared." "No, but the enclosure is." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits easy-going way." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an written, and locked the door of the office after me. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry forehead. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced child?' livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "It is true that I have been generally successful." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards several quiet little villages up there." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious until night should bring an explanation. "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but arrangements." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken down from London to inquire more deeply into it." grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to bearing upon the case." swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "No." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. Edgeware Road. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, the general public were present, then?" was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where towards the blaze. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "Dr. Becher's." and no precautions can guard against." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "He is still with you, I presume?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and could gather together that I was able to avert another public have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. danger is over." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." to his chemical studies. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must writers could invent nothing more crude." and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "The King of Scandinavia." "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "Entirely." him!"