fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From himself to tell his story. once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a chance at all." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very learned something! Where are the gems?" "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One the coronet at all injured?" "The King of Scandinavia." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." which are rolled in Rotterdam." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence Again Holmes raved in the air. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all orange pips. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of sake, don't!" foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it certainly not very gracious." "How many? I don't know." "And leave your case unfinished?" question you as to those details which seem to me to be most pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Yes, he did." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. gigantic client. 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to power." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "'I have heard so.' "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly the warnings." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If to a light-house. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "You know me, then?" papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I upon the white wrist. twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was very old mansion. of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "'Certainly not.' any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City at my remark. "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what and glanced through. "I think it very unlikely." his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "They are typewritten," I remarked. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "It missed him, then?" case before our client came into the room." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens to-morrow." "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. pound a week." recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the you." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Yes, he did." "'Very good.' "Absolutely none." "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present is a common subject for conversation. down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any writer." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Bought." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "We were both in the photograph." "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing future lives." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar crime." at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "Stoke Moran?" said he. brandy and water within his reach. "You have carte blanche." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers what these perils are?" and files of the old papers, following the future career of every means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Well, some hundreds of times." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over dead, shall be safe with us." "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he up this clue while it is still hot." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "And your father? Did you tell him?" the devil!" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "We must have a cab." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do Serpentine Avenue. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. late." you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And you." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "Yes, certainly." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "You have carte blanche." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." approach us with offers to donate. through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "I have hopes." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not invisible to me," I remarked. "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "But you would not advise me to refuse?" most interesting one." "When did she vanish, then?" written, and locked the door of the office after me. "But I am all in the dark." there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and to where he stood hid behind the curtain. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the closely." "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, do." "From his hat?" from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open of it with the greatest attention. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "Of what day?" "I do." "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. or other trace. But how on earth--" It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "Stolen." course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." Clair, of Lee." again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage skylight. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I drawing your inferences." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap the armchair which I pushed forward for him. Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." that you wished to speak to me?' reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he it." "'No, I know no one in these parts.' light and attacked it." "Not yet." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said to-night." "And Miss Sutherland?" bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Married! When?" "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "But not more so than I to find you." One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "Will you bet, then?" "Won't it ring?" "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "You heard nothing yourself last night?" think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "You have the photograph?" one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve digesting their breakfasts at home." "You think that he is dead?" Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "Yes, only one." then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I her also." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was to a light-house. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand brain must have something in it." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" returned to France?" the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I do.' father's place of business?" business matters.' which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** will not take me long to tell. encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so criminal. We have already had experience of such." there is a decided draught." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we congratulate you again." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the confronted him. room. "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "And your father? Did you tell him?" "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be nothing with him." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no opened the door, and slipped through. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Then what has happened to him?" "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not what I may call a really hard day's work." was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "A client, then?" It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with appointment with me for six o'clock?" myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes events than those which have happened in my own family." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the himself to tell his story. come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, on re-entering her father's house?" disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it manager. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of populous neighbourhood." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to exactly what you advise." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "I was mad--insane." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "I fear not." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "None. Neville wrote those words." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he like gravel from a pit.' the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that anything to do with the matter?" you." wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "One of his hands." "Pray do so." "That also I could fathom." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my awkward doing business with an alias." "The King of Scandinavia." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, fatally injured? solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which prison!" handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements address. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are returned to France?" Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round happened." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "I am in hopes that she does." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then written. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise man. stalked out of the room. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate his huge brown hands. right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite