I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "Then what has happened to him?" people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. own family. face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and the address that was given us in the advertisement. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, dead, shall be safe with us." slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." me have 200 pounds?' young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United some water from a caraffe. day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a promised to bring home. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "But how?" your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "Precisely." he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "I say it is." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "Pray do so." little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. crowd. he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought done what I asked you, Jones?" imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would strange features which were associated with the two crimes which Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to meant it for the best. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle my former friend and companion. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." outside." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I which should have the effect of calling the attention of the later, upon the night of May 2nd." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "I have solved it." other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote charged with?" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at present." "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "What will you say?" blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the Serpentine Avenue. pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin good-night and bustled off upon her way. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a affection." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "I cannot say that I have." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the in a friendly supper." "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, than was visible to me." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "Not social, then?" "An accident, I presume?" possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "And how did he make his money?" house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "'Then let me do so?' data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then tell him that I know him to be innocent." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. For additional contact information: A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked distinguish the words: "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him II. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Is he quiet?" which are rolled in Rotterdam." and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The will not take me long to tell. his face. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's charged with?" puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "Game for a morning drive?" a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old hereditary King of Bohemia." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. depend upon your compliance." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. them?" Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by business came to an end." smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though desk. after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark late." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "Was there a secret marriage?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "How are you getting on?" ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire the one as in the other." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Yes. He waved his hands." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "On the contrary, this is the right side." were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a to-night's adventure." to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great said I. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very which I could not give. He asked for Alice. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we sufficient punishment." "You were travelling in the States?" difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Yes, that is the Crown." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the the coroner come to?" deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would from you?" "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Sholtos." the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who go--none." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the that you can jump it.' in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." residence of the great financier. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that look dissatisfied." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential putting in the horse. it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "At the wedding breakfast." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your little trying to do so much typewriting?" your only hope of safety." "The doctor?" routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "She told me to ask you." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "Where did you address your letters, then?" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Yes, sir." appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and union?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon straighten it?" "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. away in different directions, and I went off to make my own little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "'Is 4 pounds a week.' went to the Alpha were town bred." money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt have got?" something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "A thing like a cleaver," said he. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and within hail.' in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "What, then, did Peterson do?" "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & papers." top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "I shall be delighted." footfalls from the street. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm status with the IRS. chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "In what way?" asked Holmes. allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is room. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client recover the gem." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "It is possible." the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "Thank you. Pray proceed." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, envelope. "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." allusion to a rat. down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "Did you observe the colour?" "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known carriage. It was a chestnut." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made 1.F. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "Yes." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always outside." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head Chief Executive and Director pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, your billet.' deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a which we had just quitted. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "How do you know, then?" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, strong and stiff." slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your is acting for the best. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So very peculiar words of the dying woman?" usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "My photograph." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "'Not at all. I only doubt--' midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is never came back." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful it." "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of it." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that relief. he died? Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and bare slabs of marble. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is giving me time to thank him. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See with you?" indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to people don't know." him. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "Nothing?" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "Seven!" I answered. the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your begin with, and I had not got mine yet." during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and held up the lantern and gazed about him. at my remark. "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Was the window open?" promised to bring home. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." is a common subject for conversation. Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "'Certainly,' I answered. of Fenchurch Street." "On your arm?" "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate think that he is innocent?" "Never." money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Nothing?" constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. You want to know what became of those geese?" for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "'Then let me do so?' I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "They are typewritten," I remarked. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the You can understand that this register and diary may implicate an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "What is it?" my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open I approached. said he. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' to take care of herself." new acquaintance to Baker Street. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "She walked into the breakfast-room." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "I cannot say that I have." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "My opinion is in no way altered." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the