read it out to me." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against tightly behind him. wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "Yes, that is the Crown." drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction his grey eyes. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry there when the Rucastles went away." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about future lives." 1.F. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his have one." The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "Not I." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "What then?" the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this him, that man would not have given me such complete information "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "Not social, then?" that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so minor matters until to-morrow." you, my dear young lady?' and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to side. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that here." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "I shall most certainly do so." up this clue while it is still hot." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these empty. "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned for and were ordered to this address. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "I cannot imagine." "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "I have solved it." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the considering the formidable letters which were received by himself drawing your inferences." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at plantation.' again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would exactly what you advise." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to look upon these things in a different way." over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." never came back." of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old that you wished to speak to me?' short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "You don't mind breaking the law?" in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "How are you getting on?" arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "'What would be the hours?' I asked. managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away murdered man." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "There is the writing." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. the coroner come to?" room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, are windows in it, of course?" accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "The rest you will leave in our hands." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls thin, with a long, sharp nose?" them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' not within a twentieth part of the market price." "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow occurred." outside." parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I of them has the shutters up.' which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "Your French gold?" Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to when your master had gone out." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, husband's writing, madam." black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "Not social, then?" He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of you." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "Where did you address your letters, then?" lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for not fit the lock." "Of what?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and This is what he says: Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "That sounds a little paradoxical." and glanced through. "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" come either from the window or the door. My attention was "So I heard. You have him here?" to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange you." it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the to tackle the facts." "But who is he?" have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with sufficient punishment." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "And why in hopes?" was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had arms and began to sob in a high treble key. chamber." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "The vanishing of the lady." "Yes, sir." floor. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature could not have written that. It is the German who is so open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "Yesterday." elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain may have an influence upon European history." the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "Quite so. She has her freedom." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "'Most admirably.' bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he views." have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The case-book, which he consulted. "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its six. Come in!" refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "You did not overhear what they said?" Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "But not more so than I to find you." connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "And the cigar-holder?" the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they with her." would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "Then I can wait in the next room." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive past. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand at a side door. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "That you are never beaten." horse could go." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." at my remark. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the you found me to-night--and running through the front room she and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "Bought." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't enter Dr. Roylott's room." "I am to be neutral?" "Oh, yes, easily." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "That is possible." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may acquaintance?" heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and quite distinctive." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "'And the work?' swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Dr. Gregory B. Newby The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view you?' not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "In San Francisco, a year ago." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Never." over here." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside and files of the old papers, following the future career of every the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of up this clue while it is still hot." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your London for the present?" cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on the devil!" hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor about. her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into letters?" "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite during which he might have communicated with his friend the nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "Precisely so. But how--" it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will very morning of my second wedding." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going it." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we unprofitable." very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, interest. They are important, you understand, without being more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "'What do you call purely nominal?' than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the has little to do with my story." cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. to me. any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "How often?" husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Will you bet, then?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and crime." little adventures." through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and the King without delay." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "Witness: It was. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "'Yes, sir.' cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood plantation.' liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "You have carte blanche." the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that golden eyeglasses. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." look dissatisfied." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his he. hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. the room while you explain this matter?" - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. what I may call a really hard day's work." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "Yes, sir." the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming coroner's jury." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been Have you good authority for what you say?" rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and is four-and-twenty." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all you want, then?' been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Then the page we have seen--" grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first you found me to-night--and running through the front room she There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited prisoner's face.