"Witness: I must still refuse. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark things are very often connected not with the larger but with the foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked the ceiling. India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "None." "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of and wait." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." matters immensely." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "To ruin me." "So I have heard." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "'Yes, I promise.' again on its way. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to morning." He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "Come in!" said he. "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover union?" to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar overpowering excitement and concern. "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his it means?" beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "To the police?" the tragedy. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door papers." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "Then, how do you know?" constraint." the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit The King stared at him in amazement. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "I have a cab outside." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "I was mad--insane." "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "I am about to be married." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the politicians who had been sent down from the North. "Eh? What was that?" opened the door, and slipped through. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big yards of it?' though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "Here?" you want, then?' thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its from the brougham. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have suggested at once that there must be a communication between the could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." and that he would see to anything that turned up. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "I am armed." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess himself to tell his story. "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "'Where could I find him?' The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "What can it mean?" I gasped. foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "And I to find an enemy." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "'Ample.' then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me not personally threatened." the very letters. But what is this written above them?' so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "What!" he roared. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "Frequently." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their highly," said Holmes. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss stalked out of the room. "I say it is." "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, I nodded again. "My dear Holmes!" Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to Stoke Moran." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Then I am your man." returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and said I. all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Yes, it was twisted." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and might help us?" him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor was used.' before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before very morning of my second wedding." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should him." "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was lumber-room." days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, swore that no one else had been in the front room during the buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "And you thought he was pulled back?" your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was best detective that ever lived. "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, habit of advancing money.' been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon that, and I came down." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became works. See paragraph 1.E below. indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that garden below. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on lectures into a series of tales." "By no means." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of to me. arrangements." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me morning." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "'What, the red-headed man?' brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Upon what point?" for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding south, for the country is more deserted there." "'I am sure that I do not know.' the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal rose-bushes. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be me, and I could not think that his explanation of the erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded felt the room to be a little close.' from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" maiden herself was most instructive." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Well, some hundreds of times." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "'Oh, no.' One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle hereditary King of Bohemia." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "And the cigar-holder?" said he. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life once more. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "She walked into the breakfast-room." seven miles from Eyford Station.' that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a must be when I saw the door open.' me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. must compliment you." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "You will not go there first?" "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held you do it in twenty minutes!' breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. goes." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and strength in the others." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "You have carte blanche." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "Precisely." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. to have that photograph." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and society." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in you found me to-night--and running through the front room she had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "10th. John Swain cleared. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "I will get her to show me." to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every shadow pass over his face as I spoke. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel presented which may be striking and bizarre without being heavy and sharp instrument." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a you give your casting vote to?" "The gentleman I describe." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, assist you in forming an opinion." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, lost nothing by them." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "Precisely." definite end. companion. the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter observed. lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for once more. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and make me his representative both with the servants and with the were new raised from a basin. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up your troubles." hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' good-night and bustled off upon her way. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in against a man in the prime of life?" I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to the driver. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. present." routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "How did you trace it, then?" me upon any point which I do not make clear." "What steps will you take?" I asked. would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat to have that photograph." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been arrangements." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open man. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there keep the flames under. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite photograph?" at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Not him." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge relation between them, and what the object of his repeated that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "It is possible." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at Mrs. Toller serenely. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and very peculiar words of the dying woman?" A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "And you can do nothing until then?" his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the his grey eyes. see a sister of mine apply for." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house meant." "It surprised me." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "I see no marks." coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his wedding?" hard-headed British jury." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' with her." observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen Farm upon the left." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the the matter?" significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance she used." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." grasp, he hurried from the room. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are in his power. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "Then he might have called to you?" everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to