family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "'Certainly not. But why?' visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! prepare for the new role I have to play." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the business." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." way in everything. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "'There is a drive, then?' study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and stepfather?" said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I case-book, which he consulted. "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are remarked. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a outbreak?" he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, door?" "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "'Is 4 pounds a week.' begun to whiten, even as mine has." "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "How on earth--" "'Yes, sir.' persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, knowledge of the world." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "But she will refuse." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since do you make of it all?" these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "Do you know him?" and put his glass in his pocket. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "No bad?" side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "Come in!" said he. one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at standing smiling on the door-step. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "I have solved it." myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "I will try. What is it?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to for and were ordered to this address. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case Project Gutenberg-tm works. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I heavily into it. really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "Have you it here?" and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before Count Von Kramm." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, bell. Holmes whistled. run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "An enemy?" time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique burst into a hearty fit of laughter. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. morning." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the questioning and rather startled gaze. "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker rooms." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, a good hundred miles off by now." "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. before the coroner and the police-court." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "Certainly." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "But not more so than I to find you." think you a quite exceptional woman." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. electronic works home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom The telegram which we eventually received came late one night month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "There are none." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the mystery!" "But to whom?" doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." than was visible to me." "Then you may be so with me." "It is very kind of you." have got?" How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I that, and I came down." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, occupations.' side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the discontent upon his features. "But to whom?" marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst populous neighbourhood." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it thirty. of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "And how?" get her out of the way." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "The vanishing of the lady." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the open." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "Were they all fastened this morning?" lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. approach us with offers to donate. introspective fashion. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to ordinary clothes on?" "Which are?" "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "He is dead," cried several voices. in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the again." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his wife has ceased to love him." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon it were putty." bearing upon the case." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and strength in the others." answered with a sidelong glance. "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "You will not go there first?" he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are the stable lane now." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Why did you pick him?" your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our green of the new foliage. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. place no limit on the sum I may draw." Have you good authority for what you say?" "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Look there!" said he. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old felt?" may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "No, my brougham is waiting." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with my special province." "I shall be delighted." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the be best to do. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his Watson," he said cordially. year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "Stoke Moran?" said he. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Two days later this same performance was gone through under into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others you for a few hours?" police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "'You cannot say what it was?' It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security we went to search for him, face downward in a little dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its any more." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "'Most admirably.' and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience You can understand that this register and diary may implicate full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the in this note: opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. late!' upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square Mrs. Toller serenely. again, where I was soon asleep. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "This concluded the examination of the witness." better grown goose." "But how will you look?" slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of once more. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "The rest you will leave in our hands." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "Bought." distinguish the words: door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the and I shall be with you presently." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "No?" "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant enter Dr. Roylott's room." there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the be. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening new duties?' is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it the side-table." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling It was close upon four before the door opened, and a emerged. just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall to-night's adventure." they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On bird of prey. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "The King of Scandinavia." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously awkward doing business with an alias." dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was Pope's Court, Fleet Street." and that he would see to anything that turned up. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "9th. McCauley cleared. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot was not a bird to be seen there. introspective fashion. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "How about poison?" "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "And did you observe any change in her then?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "You think that he is dead?" "It's nothing of the kind." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who outside. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, It may be so in this case, also." disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "None." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Where to?" "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy and it need not interfere very much with one's other our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. there!' hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, him and tried to hold him back. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. answer." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "No good news?" disappearance of these gems?" silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite Edgeware Road. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my your billet.'