backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove you do it in twenty minutes!' anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through your room." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "9th. McCauley cleared. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and I have it here in my museum." very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," wanted for ourselves." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should of it with the greatest attention. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "'Ten to two.' pressing in one house as in another. some city in a dream. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. it." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. eat it." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, residence of the great financier. "'What do you call purely nominal?' uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "But not more so than I to find you." But Holmes shook his head gravely. anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck definite end. she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said it. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "What! Had he lost his wife?" of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "No, finished." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "Yes." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" to-night." "No." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. off." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If went to the Alpha were town bred." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to him nearly every evening." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The fasten all the windows?" feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "'Oh, no.' cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an promised to bring home. acquaintance?" such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a simple cases which are so extremely difficult." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "Did you observe the colour?" the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "'I shall certainly be there.' good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "I think that it is very probable." "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "'Where to?' me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project light and attacked it." dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very fish-monger and a tide-waiter." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter for the market.' explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of matter." row." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Yes, he did." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in them?" of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old Doctor, of the paper and the date." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are obstinate." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Precisely so. But how--" the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for call the police, let the police find what they can.' until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Nothing." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous amused." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between lectures into a series of tales." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who kindly on the shoulder. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set door?" of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties will find little credit to be gained out of this case." think that he is innocent?" Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to it." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done the Red-headed League." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his front of me. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which where she found matters as described by the last witness. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten the coronet in his hands?" building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. father's young wife. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old grasp, he hurried from the room. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "In which, sir?" read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the may have an influence upon European history." instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the lumber-room." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "None." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue You want to know what became of those geese?" Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Game for a morning drive?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. signal between you and your father? him nearly every evening." anything to do with the matter?" Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across union?" society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in beyond words. the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of passage and a tap at the door. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. him and tried to hold him back. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of you." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front for securing the situation." such person." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "'No, I know no one in these parts.' mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." direction." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, was shining brightly. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of American. Then who could this American be, and why should he grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "No, finished." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "I have solved it." from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for God! What an exposure! What can I do?" moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the locked." "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. thought that she would have been so carried away." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "I have my revolver," said I. had picked up in the wood. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who one else, I think." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "I am all attention, madam." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "By train from Waterloo." "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him crime." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was been shamefully used." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had me upon any point which I do not make clear." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to here." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. deduce something from that?" "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "Her father is very rich?" something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." giving me time to thank him. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" night.' said he. and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was the child." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you crime. "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very and it need not interfere very much with one's other third from London." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond his eyes and forehead. thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, John Swain, of St. Augustine. events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "Not social, then?" indeed happy." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole chance." moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." opportunities to fix the problem. advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary writers could invent nothing more crude." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the so-precious time, but come!' upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from and the colonel ushered me in. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "'What would be the hours?' I asked. yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "Awake, Watson?" he asked. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, habit of advancing money.' down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we salesman. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no lamp in his hand. justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "Nothing?" "I will do it." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of events than those which have happened in my own family." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "I will, Miss Turner." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I pressing in one house as in another. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set throat." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately place of silver." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just to miss it." beg that you will break it off." look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save overpowering excitement and concern. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather these bleak autumnal evenings." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional should be so warm over such a trifle." "The doctor?" and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property bears upon the case?" I shall communicate with you." "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' Pope's Court, Fleet Street." Surrey." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and Clair, of Lee." "Nothing." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, might have a private word with us. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how IS society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "You horrify me!" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Sholtos." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "It must be recovered." information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. you do it in twenty minutes!' "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "Never." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the certainly do as you advise." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "We were both in the photograph." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "'As governess?' "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded I. Pope's Court. St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting article?" stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "It is his hat." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "'What are you doing there?' he asked. conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Gutenberg-tm License. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, The events in question occurred in the early days of my plantation.' be best to do. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought there were so many in the whole country as were brought together gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise