"I saw her in conversation with her maid." burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Have you it here?" late!' my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he dead, shall be safe with us." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle companion. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an into the bag, and made for the door. "But not more so than I to find you." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "No, distinctly professional." quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. photograph?" Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There developed." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly she to prove their authenticity?" well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long murdered man." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "But you have hopes?" your troubles." had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I look dissatisfied." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I south, for the country is more deserted there." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the events, Mr. Windibank!" "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite companion. "'And the work?' "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch chemical work which was so dear to him. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was one else, I think." events than those which have happened in my own family." her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Witness: I must still refuse. leaning back in his chair. from the brougham. as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are me upon any point which I do not make clear." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of back into the street. best detective that ever lived. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how indiscretion." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "No, I think that I'll take it." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "How did you deduce the select?" came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such crowd. from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat our word." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." our word." clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "But the mystery?" headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "I will, Miss Turner." sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of present." Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the companion imperturbably. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "Then you may entirely rely on me." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "And you thought he was pulled back?" in one or two places in England?' ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "Will you go?" really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon daring than any effort of the imagination." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" upon an income of about 60 pounds." direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "And I." round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Very. But will he see it?" As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a must be when I saw the door open.' "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but giving me time to thank him. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. brain must have something in it." surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and shall not find me ungrateful." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: gone. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "I never have." my friend's incisive reasoning. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the of Fenchurch Street." inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. him. "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate purpose equally well?" the window, rose as we entered. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly works. purpose of examination. My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "One of the highest in England." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by troubles have been weighing upon his mind. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to bears upon the case?" He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such 'please.'" every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? was lame." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "I know where it is." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to already been minutely examined." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "No." events, Mr. Windibank!" Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted see a sister of mine apply for." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "What can you not understand?" importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, served to weaken the effect. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from his knees, staring into the fire. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "And how did you find out?" refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "How did you deduce the select?" "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you "What have you done?" asked Holmes. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from was a lad." "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "'You cannot say what it was?' There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of it." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." I think that I could be of assistance to you." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "And what did you see?" "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be telegram would bring me down to your help." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' Serpentine Avenue. him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the colonel looking down at me. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked as he remarks, very much against the son." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which better in every way that they should make their position a little a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for some city in a dream. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "That's no good." months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "Where to?" "'And the work?' Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." his fortune, and I went back to pa. me." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "How did that help you?" away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled my secret was safe in his possession. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "Witness: I must still refuse. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no said I. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, himself in a perplexing position. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I read it out to me." Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my made his money." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now not as remarkable as your advertisement." that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. and glanced through. "Very much so." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. too. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "Yes, it was twisted." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Game for a morning drive?" the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It tapping his fingers upon the table. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "We must sit without light. He would see it through the just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "Your presence might be invaluable." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' simple cases which are so extremely difficult." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was enter into my head. his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "Well, it is a possible supposition." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my II. photograph?" clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with morning." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs ordinary clothes on?" thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "Where, then, is my wife?" mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said this remarkable episode. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored down in his armchair and closing his eyes. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or the little opening for the ventilator is." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I fattened it expressly for you.' "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "What, then?" bonnet, and went out." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had persecution?" case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "No, I had a dozen." I have it here in my museum." you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the your most interesting statement." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Oh, the cause is excellent!" but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" away in different directions, and I went off to make my own delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "One of his hands." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "I will, Miss Turner." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "I have solved it." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "By train from Waterloo." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a to-night?" I asked. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, the one as in the other." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an voice, changing her seat as requested. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector third from London." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "And you can do nothing until then?" the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, late!' horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "It is very clear." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose will be renamed.