gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than the nursery. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard what do you think they found in the pockets?" nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose who was a member of your goose club." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from lids now and glanced across at his visitor. my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "At what time?" It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried hopeless attempt at recovering them." may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each Pope's Court. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need this remarkable episode. surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry and that he would see to anything that turned up. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my article?" believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. astonishment. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. will take you up to see the machine.' from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated your bag." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not success. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "'And what are they worth?' I asked. prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "How about poison?" ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when Foundation like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar mysterious end." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the even so self-evident a thing as that." "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. fact, we may call it conclusive." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe but preventing her from injuring another. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" face and glided from the room. newspaper selections." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "Yes." "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature your Highness to the police-station?" It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "I am armed." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself lost his Christmas dinner." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a It was close upon four before the door opened, and a Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "It is his hat." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." when you have done it." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "'Ample.' "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things which our visitor detailed to us. "9th. McCauley cleared. "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own when you have done it." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Then, as to money?" through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt his grey eyes. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country to talk it over. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" are windows in it, of course?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "Yes, all." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, one of them." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "'You cannot say what it was?' hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. to take care of herself." which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden to tackle the facts." "We must have a cab." practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, there." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, you in yours." "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by searched, without anything being found which could incriminate The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water know what is wrong with it.' "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to McCarthy." you." south, for the country is more deserted there." "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Yes, certainly." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was his eyes and forehead. The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and direction." London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or rat could hardly pass through." Holmes' thin, eager face. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he Cross for the Continent." not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary occupations.' it. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it weigh very heavily upon my conscience." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with thirty. band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "10th. John Swain cleared. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself already been minutely examined." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by families. Now for the facts. side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he "You horrify me!" girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they little trying to do so much typewriting?" the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he breakfast." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian nonsense.' I took the paper from him and read as follows: in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, Again Holmes raved in the air. For additional contact information: down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "And your father? Did you tell him?" coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "Very murderous indeed." "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No friend's singular character. when you have done it." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of interests were the same as his." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was just ask you whether you had heard it.' showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight threw himself down with his face to the pillow. soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. to tackle the facts." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is gentleman's clothes. unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "But it has twice been burgled." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "Always." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really invisible to me," I remarked. "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to had died away into the silence from which it rose. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between again, where I was soon asleep. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just father's young wife. was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger shag which I had seen upon the previous night. stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon threw himself down with his face to the pillow. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate been able to understand it, in a very few words. "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "You did not overhear what they said?" to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making miles off. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing in my life." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were enter Dr. Roylott's room." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "About a month then." vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, out of this horrible affair." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "I was afraid that you were engaged." is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be go from here to the Strand." forecastle of an emigrant ship. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may answered with a sidelong glance. erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "His face fell immediately. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an one or two very singular points about this room. For example, faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway I think that I could be of assistance to you." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he felt the room to be a little close.' "Yes." him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." Sutherland. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "In what way?" asked Holmes. window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. seven miles from Eyford Station.' one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was mystery!" am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was of." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came the window, rose as we entered. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every that sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was presume?" How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "Stolen, then." of receipt of the work. in this note: trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the which should have the effect of calling the attention of the toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few it means?" when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore and wait." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and charged with?" and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that breakfast." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste recover the gem." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given ill-usage at the hands of fortune. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 the very morning of the wedding." fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "And the cigar-holder?" business matters.' opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual in one or two places in England?' "Not social, then?" to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We of." eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of the so-precious time, but come!' "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite persecution?" not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the What do you deduce from it?" Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I