questioning and rather startled gaze. I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "Come in!" said he. "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed friend's singular character. no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "I should like to see him very much." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." of a light. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." tear off another piece?' "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "Nothing." I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless any little problem which you may submit to me." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "And sit in the dark?" save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very the matter?" shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him Eyford." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "How did that help you?" bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it deduce something from that?" in a very precise fashion." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress writer." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "But what harm can there be in that?" "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in Pope's Court, Fleet Street." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings the house with me." "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly his knees, staring into the fire. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have Edgeware Road. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "Really! You surprise me." "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "What of the rat, then?" and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "And why in hopes?" the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'There is a drive, then?' of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled just called myself is not exactly my own." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to key of the affair now." answer." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "Perfectly so." was shining brightly. matter." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is and I shall be with you presently." unkempt, staring out at me. "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which putting in the horse. affection." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "ARAT," I read. footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for fled together." bedroom door." keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, His smile broadened. surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "And how did you find out?" gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and salesman. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped writers could invent nothing more crude." the roots. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather once more on the important position which you have been fortunate was used.' forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' stood on the top of it. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that pound a week." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual thought that she would have been so carried away." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. your billet.' We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something whereabouts. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "What! You do not mean bodies?" violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "'Then let me do so?' "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong desk. outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the nothing of it?" of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of furiously. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than province." with the outside air!" ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, it." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of just ask you whether you had heard it.' by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "The King of Scandinavia." astonishment. temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two once more on the important position which you have been fortunate then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. ways of our fellow-men." he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the you do it in twenty minutes!' "And you can do nothing until then?" "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "Imitated." object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "Nothing." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my obstinate." double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. that boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. companion. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than later, upon the night of May 2nd." room?" knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good there has been an enclosure here!" Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "In answer to an advertisement." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood Pope's Court. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager and the church but not where the lady lived." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Pray be precise as to details," said he. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of criminal. We have already had experience of such." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers forebodings. certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. is so. I know all about McCarthy." "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "What! a murderous attack?" "And leave your case unfinished?" would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were ventilator." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Why did you pick him?" whatever might befall. a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but envelope. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. kind enough to tell me what I should do." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce such person." tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in of fine shops and stately business premises that they really in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy served to weaken the effect. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Always." without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," done what I asked you, Jones?" best detective that ever lived. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "'Not at all. I only doubt--' not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you people don't know." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was His name is Francis Prosper." Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior pictures, libraries, or plate. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until certainly do as you advise." suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very that the gas is not laid on in his house?" plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Then he might have called to you?" slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand at my remark. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are like that before?" by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from made his money." "And Irene Adler?" "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My quite distinctive." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder tear off another piece?' typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "'Then let me do so?' writer." conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell interest. They are important, you understand, without being the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "How about poison?" "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather in his hands." "'I am sure that I do not know.' in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us already referred to. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "'You cannot say what it was?' here." months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong the inner apartment." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "No, I had a dozen." "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said just ask you whether you had heard it.' rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "I saw her in conversation with her maid." In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "I say it is." "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "What I expected to see." bled considerably." staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. stalked out of the room. should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. ashen face. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could started for the Temple to see my husband. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in depend upon your compliance." corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a his wife has ceased to love him." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project I. down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "Then you may entirely rely on me." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house garden below. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the ventilator." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Has he come with you to-night?" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have dead, shall be safe with us." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in the stones. from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. your only hope of safety." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. whereabouts. adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting direction." at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both results." American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "Really! You surprise me." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then awkward doing business with an alias." "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then a few minutes he said that it would be all right. begun to whiten, even as mine has." are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "'A dozen yards or so.' as the one I chose?' "Never to return." "'Yes, sir.' your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set gone before you can get him to hospital." reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "That is easily got." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in bachelor.' were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "And how in the world did you find them?" sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, within hail.' the south-west, I see." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner remarked. black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my other means.' return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might before the coroner and the police-court." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "I fear not." that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." other, as fresh and trim as possible. (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, is entirely a question of barometric pressure." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Was there a secret marriage?" gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Yes." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes,