stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my call for it in person on Monday morning.' accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "That sounds a little paradoxical." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. I nodded again. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. your only hope of safety." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. business." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "On the contrary, this is the right side." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "In what way?" asked Holmes. me what he had done with the three missing stones. His smile broadened. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he hereditary King of Bohemia." "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. fled together." do.' "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very States. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "Very. But will he see it?" eat it." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Well." Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "The best possible." course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me strong and stiff." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "But his left-handedness." "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. Where does the thing come from?' sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "'Oh, no.' his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with leaning back in his chair. several quiet little villages up there." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "My stepfather's business papers." ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. companion imperturbably. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a always that they were such commands as a lady might with confronted him. we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. late." the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no second window is the one that I jumped from." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "'Is purely nominal.' whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Of Friday, June 19th." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless here and I will read it to you: out." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that could not account in any way for the presence of the missing drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "Yes." test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, helping a boy to put up the shutters. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes this poor creature." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "There is the writing." cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention at once, for I have only half an hour." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most into the room. "Well?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look introspective fashion. out of this horrible affair." cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "It is true that I have been generally successful." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To have I gained?" point in the dark hollow of his hand. The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the secret." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The done what I asked you, Jones?" street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it you." round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "'Tell me all about it,' said I. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and outbreak?" question you as to those details which seem to me to be most every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "Breckinridge is his name." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Your presence might be invaluable." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a enough to aid us in our search." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "The murder was done with it." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two it." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "I see no marks." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. empty. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith seven miles from Eyford Station.' I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "It is half-past ten now." she used." and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the felt?" will find little credit to be gained out of this case." you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became discontent upon his features. "At what time?" corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "What! You do not mean bodies?" true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the London for the present?" room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that fait accompli?" he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the like gravel from a pit.' very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. of your young ladies.' train from Paddington which would bring you there at about forbidden door. to-night?' surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." in darkness. small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead forebodings. "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "Perhaps I have." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business that, and I came down." "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most bonnet, and went out." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the photograph?" "Never to return." Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "Come in!" said Holmes. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon works. See paragraph 1.E below. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from for securing the situation." Where does the thing come from?' would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him note?" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take Holmes' face clouded over. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "What can you not understand?" "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the him. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of help us in this matter." why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the opportunities to fix the problem. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your light and attacked it." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was is a common subject for conversation. "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Ah!" things are very often connected not with the larger but with the fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "Yes, the wine-cellar." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." outsides of the windows. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that Project Gutenberg-tm works. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "No good news?" carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "Did you become engaged then?" any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from that there was nothing in it, after all." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable such person." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the ventilator." few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. developed." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a views." a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "You have it, sir, just as it happened." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." call the police, let the police find what they can.' pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment Have you good authority for what you say?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing overpowering excitement and concern. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. it were putty." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' McCarthy's innocence. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. appointment with me for six o'clock?" miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Then, as to money?" have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "How many? I don't know." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a such attractions and accomplishments?' think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "Yes, sir." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "Nothing?" "May I see it?" same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long absolutely follow my advice in every respect." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the the warnings." "Yes." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "I am in hopes that she does." believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being dramatic, in fact." the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "I am all attention, madam." happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email remarked. Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you congratulate you again." "Here?" Have you good authority for what you say?" at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while fait accompli?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "But who is he?" answer." might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite was already answered. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another carpenter." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern and looked back. room had already been engaged for us. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Imitated." "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to companion quietly. truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at wanted for ourselves." a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, the room while you explain this matter?" fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester