desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these key turn in the lock." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "'What, the red-headed man?' "I never have." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a outside. "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is round and wave him away like that.' need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable our word." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "Oh, fresh and glossy." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "I cannot think." used to be." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a that before taking the final step I should like to submit the everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my whole matter to your consideration." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "What I expected to see." bird I ate is country bred." four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "I have my revolver," said I. the side-table." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "Witness: It was. "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed where we are going." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "Where, then, is my wife?" straighten it?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do face and glided from the room. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very yards of it?' repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, the ceiling. "No, distinctly professional." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in which our visitor detailed to us. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Was the window open?" conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began to tackle the facts." "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Texas, I think." the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. careless servant girl?" "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "'And what are they worth?' I asked. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary even so self-evident a thing as that." the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of might have a private word with us. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the all-comprehensive glances. and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a pierced for earrings?" Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was and the colonel ushered me in. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Come in!" said Holmes. Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I am all attention, madam." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly his eyes and forehead. robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then three of the beryls in it, was missing. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "But what harm can there be in that?" all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a lamp in his hand. works. See paragraph 1.E below. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the my special province." doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would London for the present?" ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a girl said." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, could not account in any way for the presence of the missing presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. instituted." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this will take you up to see the machine.' "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and records." out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "Yes, there are nearly always some there." serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "No, I think that I'll take it." "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of even so self-evident a thing as that." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to http://www.gutenberg.net mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be cigars in their mouths. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak it." dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat few hundred pounds.' little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "'Tell me all about it,' said I. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "I was certainly surprised to find you there." fled together." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into and I shall be with you presently." "Quite so. She has her freedom." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." bonnet, and went out." cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must chair. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off have got?" hereditary King of Bohemia." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed past. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on said I. that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I system of imprisonment?" "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "'Quite sure, dad.' appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the of the way of danger. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, intimate personal affairs in this public manner." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "What?" "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "Is he quiet?" very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my strength in the others." front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now The telegram which we eventually received came late one night world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "It is very clear." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "If I can be of use." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "I am in hopes that she does." exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I only touch the interest." and all of them with the keenest interest. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "'Which dealer's?' "Where, then, is my wife?" "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are congenial hunt. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs we went to search for him, face downward in a little "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "'And the work?' passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm do.' that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, presented more singular features than that which was associated why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well forecastle of an emigrant ship. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. pictures, libraries, or plate. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be points in connection with it which never have been, and probably be. have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and and prosperity to your house. Good-night." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to forehead. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. of." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his posted to-day." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his when your master had gone out." It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his suddenly upon us." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Here?" absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "A greater distance to travel." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Yes. He waved his hands." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It evidence," I remarked. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe my little problems." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as The telegram which we eventually received came late one night will find little credit to be gained out of this case." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary client, rising. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. foot. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his Does that suggest anything?" fear." much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I gbnewby@pglaf.org 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. conversation I have gathered that they have been married about do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "Oh, fresh and glossy." observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" never came back." "On your arm?" has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "And why in hopes?" just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, him. "Then I do not see the point." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there of your young ladies.' you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I key of the affair now." the Assizes." gbnewby@pglaf.org mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. people in all walks of life. which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "What then?" A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were conduct the inquiry." the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous row." "At what time?" foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in of them has the shutters up.' we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" than was visible to me." relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. the so-precious time, but come!' contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "'Never.' from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the other, as fresh and trim as possible. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as tell him that I know him to be innocent." the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he outside." their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, along the entire front of the house, with three long windows your troubles." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "No?" "What have you done?" asked Holmes. the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw