Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "What are they?" just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to guilty parties." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "I shall most certainly do so." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use fat-encircled eyes. read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "'Why that?' I asks. "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "Certainly." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. crackling voice. own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was to miss it." was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had individual and becomes the badge of a society." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, forebodings. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "Will you bet, then?" "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "You are hungry," I remarked. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these distinguish the words: floor. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "I say it is." closing the door. "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "Witness: Nothing definite. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for becomes even more simple." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Do you receive much company?" he asked. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full recall any case within my experience which looked at the first are windows in it, of course?" very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after the address that was given us in the advertisement. is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate get her out of the way." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "But his lameness?" week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the train.' had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "Then I do not see the point." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached the bottom.' Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William unprofitable." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door waste of energy." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "My dear Holmes!" anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "You have compromised yourself seriously." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my you for a few hours?" multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, within hail.' Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Not yet." Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the you." very morning of my second wedding." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "'Very good.' fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which the coronet in his hands?" Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the occupations.' nonsense.' "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Oh, yes, easily." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in tension within him. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "'Ample.' for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which retorted upon me, and I on you." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial been." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as instincts rose up against that laugh. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and disappearance of these gems?" see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and touch that coronet?' "'What are you doing there?' he asked. the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "You did not overhear what they said?" and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "My last client of the sort was a king." and inquire as to the address." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; the little opening for the ventilator is." "My dear Holmes!" step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! future lives." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "'You cannot say what it was?' could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his directors have had misgivings upon the subject." harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. way in." chance at all." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "No more words. Get out!" thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we some terrible trap for her." Heh?' License. You must require such a user to return or man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "Come in!" said he. "This concluded the examination of the witness." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we in the dead of the night?' on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "What I expected to see." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of American. Then who could this American be, and why should he Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his not fit the lock." our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged that you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "Then I can wait in the next room." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was face and glided from the room. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Nor running a chance of arrest?" our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the have accepted such a situation. went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been client, rising. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "I was sure that I might rely on you." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "No more words. Get out!" "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, even of instruction." very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "Witness: I must still refuse. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked less than 26s. 4d. License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he go--none." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the approach us with offers to donate. "I have hopes." orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "But how could you guess what the motive was?" dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "No, finished." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter which I could not give. He asked for Alice. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged side. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "It's nothing of the kind." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "What will you do, then?" sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "Only as much as we can deduce." little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, there has been an enclosure here!" no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "I cannot imagine." you in yours." "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the girl said." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There could not account in any way for the presence of the missing The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise was keenly on my guard against him. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! me where it went to?" seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. lids now and glanced across at his visitor. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "I cannot as yet see any connection." grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his late." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest about. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "No bad?" but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm http://gutenberg.net/license). 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to business came to an end." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Stoke Moran?" said he. "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Perhaps I have." several quiet little villages up there." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to For additional contact information: sooner or later she must fall a victim. But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of people don't know." handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The bare slabs of marble. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk served to weaken the effect. the best of training." "What is it?" to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his o'clock is it?" The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "Only as much as we can deduce." tear off another piece?' his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in asked. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "I never have." "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "No." which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "The Coroner: What do you mean? "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt shoulder. his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled corner of the building. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her the Red-headed League." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "Witness: It was. of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the waste of energy." "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see door?" the inquest, and which are worth considering." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "Where, then?" detective. found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. What do you deduce from it?"