closely." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "And now?" He raised his hand. the side-table." spark where all is dark to me." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. lost his Christmas dinner." the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, husband's writing, madam." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can newspaper selections." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "I would pay ten." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "Did you become engaged then?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for and glanced through. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "That is possible." contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some have not had my rubber." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "Entirely." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced she to prove their authenticity?" "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "But you would not advise me to refuse?" travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I detained." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had strength in the others." collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in observed. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "Will you go?" purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, could not account in any way for the presence of the missing employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "Ah, but I was recommended to you." for its centre. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other sofa. This way, please!" "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." bears upon the case?" trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." so.' listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the what I may call a really hard day's work." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "'What then?' I asked. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "No. His orders were to stay in the house." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was Henry Baker is a member." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to rose-bushes. "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements likely to be some crony of the landlady's." that the gas is not laid on in his house?" have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we some water from a caraffe. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon the iron safe, which he closed upon it. examine." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you his face which made him a very different person to the round, the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "Of what day?" his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and during which he might have communicated with his friend the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "Certainly." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "Nothing." "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the in the hope of finding them." should be taken.' "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "And on what day did he meet his death?" the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. The events in question occurred in the early days of my whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce records." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Texas, I think." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "The Coroner: What do you mean? still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Then I shall certainly come." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too envelope. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "That is unusual in a young girl." taking in every detail of the apartment. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "Yes." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It begin with, and I had not got mine yet." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people morning." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' there." that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which always that they were such commands as a lady might with habit of advancing money.' say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such go from here to the Strand." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose Leadenhall Street--and--" the coronet in his hands?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom The King stared at him in amazement. "They are typewritten," I remarked. both be extremely obliged.' aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, impression behind it as though a window had gently closed may have an influence upon European history." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' passage and a tap at the door. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. upon the white wrist. "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his and it need not interfere very much with one's other "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The maiden herself was most instructive." "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was clanging. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "I should like to see him very much." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "The decline of his fortunes, then?" necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Then you may be so with me." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "And why?" unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon which are rolled in Rotterdam." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's in. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "Precisely." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to easy-going way." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "I cannot imagine." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who even so self-evident a thing as that." "The best possible." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic Lestrade of Scotland Yard." thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see means taking possession of that which another person has a prior top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "You were travelling in the States?" with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the 1.E.9. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "He said too much." "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Were they all fastened this morning?" the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which been shamefully used." with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was trifles." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "'As governess?' husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "And you thought he was pulled back?" Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his have an American origin." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without Surrey." "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs something of him before." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "'Most admirably.' are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to down in his armchair and closing his eyes. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and Leadenhall Street--and--" journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same colour had been driven from his face. was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." said I. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so question," said Holmes, smiling. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the matter." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." photograph a cabinet?" "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "But how?" impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My begun to whiten, even as mine has." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their into the bag, and made for the door. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a behind me. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "Which surely he restored to their owner?" without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance breakfast?" when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly colonel looking down at me. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly of your young ladies.' upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows to tackle the facts." separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "She showed me, as I told you she would." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at to some other building. reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "In heaven's name, what for?" "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "'Then let me do so?' with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "I cannot as yet see any connection." terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or joking. is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "How do you know, then?" to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what my special province." relation between them, and what the object of his repeated and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "One of the highest in England." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When strong and stiff." news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "No." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a