me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "And the cigar-holder?" when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the II. "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." Pope's Court. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "I will, Miss Turner." eavesdroppers?' would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "You have carte blanche." spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and fluttered off among the others. "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "'In my own bureau.' They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "Who was the criminal, then?" so far?" as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "I cannot as yet see any connection." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall Have you good authority for what you say?" Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not kind enough to tell me what I should do." "The doctor?" you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing this man was intellectual?" it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear where she found matters as described by the last witness. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "BALLARAT." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a down. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from peculiar to him. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I she slowly sank and died without having recovered her dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a infinite languor in his face. play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such third from London." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at like that before?" "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left again." said he. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Then you may entirely rely on me." while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest maid will bring up your coffee." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a your equipment. season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised the very letters. But what is this written above them?' of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the into the bag, and made for the door. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, ordinary clothes on?" To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "I came to find a friend." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "But how?" which it had come upon my father." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the and no precautions can guard against." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to bears upon the case?" "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." to surprise her." against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "Where did he live, then?" said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa it? Did I buy the geese off you?" too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness nights." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow since then to throw any light upon what became of him." were new raised from a basin. anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." the coroner come to?" "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the to his chemical studies. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove my former friend and companion. "None." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "I guessed as much." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for the bottom.' a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. late." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "He might." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom four million human beings all jostling each other within the We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "'Very good.' nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Have you her photograph?" nonsense.' to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort the ceiling. the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an humiliation." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the orange pips. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." back alive. in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "Then he might have called to you?" cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to it right.' someone who had been in Australia." that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered in one or two places in England?' "'What do you call purely nominal?' "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him he bowed and left the room without another word. was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be British peeress.'" "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, of Mr. Rucastle's." society." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." the stable lane now." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. delirious. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing generous with you in money matters.' to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see least a most suspicious remark." "Very well, sir. And this stone?" chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," at once, for I have only half an hour." "Dirty?" unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my begin with, and I had not got mine yet." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay to that open window." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, have an American origin." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in with you?" (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you room?" chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "And I say east," said my patient. and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he was it brought him the coronet? "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Not I." of this gang." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and article?" overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that had no one to advise her at such a crisis." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action this poor creature." go back?" to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very experiences." and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there place, I think that there is good ground to think that the out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing indeed which he could not unravel. corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very Leadenhall Street--and--" "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "But how?" if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple During two years I have had three consultations and one small a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "Thank you. Pray proceed." your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a a little more before I quite committed myself. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the British peeress.'" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be cheerful." "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "Where, then?" in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for that I am arrested." fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect chamber." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no it were putty." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the information in his hands the value of which he did not himself after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "You'll never persuade me to believe that." neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards his face which made him a very different person to the round, suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your and the whole place is in a blaze." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned dates and names. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then some water from a caraffe. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. chair. against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture to arrive at through this?" doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but grasp, he hurried from the room. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the whether it answered to the description of any of their sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the main points of my analysis." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he my former friend and companion. pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between qualifications. 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