By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she that there was nothing in it, after all." hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in tear off another piece?' "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. character. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you experiences." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into works. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the note?" while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in out of this horrible affair." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." rose-bushes. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Ten will be early enough." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "So I have heard." stepfather?" "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "'What do you call purely nominal?' had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the bachelor.' photograph?" assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the at home. breakfast." only touch the interest." presume?" "I was sure that I might rely on you." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small License. You must require such a user to return or "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is the roots. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that Henry Baker is a member." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire bled considerably." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes sparkled upon his finger. to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right key of the affair now." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "I cannot tell." I. mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Nearly eleven." "Then I shall certainly come." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an that you saw all that I did." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat something of him before." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you ran thus: street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend the stable lane now." his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the up this clue while it is still hot." me." Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of seem to you to be relevant or not." vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "My dear Holmes!" Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you to surprise her." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "But not more so than I to find you." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "Yesterday." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, article?" quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my go--none." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his extraordinary contortions. slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded galvanised. unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy the very letters. But what is this written above them?' them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." had formerly been in part my own. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend against a man in the prime of life?" "What?" The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and interested in these little problems, and since you are good trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "Imitated." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am row." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "There is the writing." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and before the coroner and the police-court." The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, night.' said he. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "Yes. He waved his hands." success. things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "That's no good." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone from you?" the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." it with his own hands." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No best detective that ever lived. entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly the nursery. hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round seven miles from Eyford Station.' "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "That is possible." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." important." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "And Irene Adler?" "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch brandy and water within his reach. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from begun to whiten, even as mine has." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "ARAT," I read. latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about looking up at the numbers of the houses." It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too his cane at the bell-pull. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Texas, I think." London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "'Yes, it was gone.' We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "But I am all in the dark." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without voice, changing her seat as requested. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these gbnewby@pglaf.org right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "You are hungry," I remarked. where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "I think that I had better go, Holmes." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a really the only notable feature about the thing." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in wife's character?" indeed which he could not unravel. help us in this matter." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting spare." disappearance of the bride.'" "Very well, sir. And this stone?" makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. society." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "I was mad--insane." seen the man in the road." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "I assure you that I am in your hands." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it cigars in the box." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. was keenly on my guard against him. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the at home. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel a suggestive one." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which dead, shall be safe with us." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot had a long day." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our as he folded up the epistle. that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of few hundred pounds.' introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and companion. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not see a sister of mine apply for." "'About the same.' "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' Lee, in the county of Kent." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter hopeless attempt at recovering them." "I came to find a friend." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he minor matters until to-morrow." shoulder. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "Quite so. She has her freedom." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Ah, but I was recommended to you." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "What!" he roared. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her showing my impatience. nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "But of what society?" I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "My last client of the sort was a king." excitement. of the efforts of the United States government and of the better connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" the coronet in his hand?" 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand 11:15.' "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Then he might have called to you?" Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met these bleak autumnal evenings." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my persecution?" "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Yes, all." Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in never will be, entirely cleared up. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, my little problems." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "Entirely." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Yes." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about the bed, and you in that chair." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It open." Eyford at 11:15.' the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated extraordinary contortions. admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good and have this put in the evening papers." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He his knees, staring into the fire. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to in your London, you will know that the office of the company is and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters crackling voice. opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. unprecedented a position." "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight wife's character?" against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, one of the states of the Union." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside one of them." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he she slowly sank and died without having recovered her was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in