she used." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man wall." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "'Is 4 pounds a week.' Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon His name is Francis Prosper." of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these use an arc-and-compass breastpin." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing think that he is innocent?" Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at bird of prey. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come and that he would see to anything that turned up. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly sentimental considerations in the background which would induce face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "His face fell immediately. once more to my work. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little your own bird, so if you wish--" laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "10th. John Swain cleared. brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He than to us. "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of breakfast and whispered something to her husband. into her hand at the door and which lured her within their savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "How about poison?" "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "I think it very unlikely." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the some water from a caraffe. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my should be so warm over such a trifle." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "By no means." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "No." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. Literary Archive Foundation for the market.' "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining to his chemical studies. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish the Assizes." dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened hardly wander." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, bed dies. Does not that strike you?" locked. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She even so self-evident a thing as that." lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. individual and becomes the badge of a society." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the redistribution. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "It looks newer than the other things?" To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "What I expected to see." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a developed." country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a locked." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. guilty one." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new when your master had gone out." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and was once confined in the cab my mission was practically believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." most interesting one." "Get out!" said he. pierced for earrings?" dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was thought that she would have been so carried away." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just orange pips. and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do the roots. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I to some other building. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and question," said Holmes, smiling. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and so.' young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when arms and began to sob in a high treble key. she has been waylaid. There has been no result." lost his Christmas dinner." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "Quite so. She has her freedom." Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss kindly on the shoulder. is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged hopeless attempt at recovering them." conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "And what did you learn from him?" "I am sure." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "By no means." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "But what is it you wish?" why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "What are they?" always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker once more to my work. time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' Doctor, of the paper and the date." been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from of fine shops and stately business premises that they really in. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out during the last few years, and there are many noble families to leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had is a common subject for conversation. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I me upon any point which I do not make clear." my room." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, other lovers by making love himself." Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just a very grave face. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "No." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "'Oh, no.' "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. Stoke Moran." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "Witness: I must still refuse. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "And on what day did he meet his death?" The King stared at him in amazement. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any Henry Baker is a member." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "Yes." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "A call for help, you thought?" been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "'Ample.' with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "Why, what do you mean?" I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated take the flies, but not before." thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Murdered?" applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "Quite so. She has her freedom." was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, stalked out of the room. "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the waste of energy." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly some mystery and the punishment of some crime." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, disappearance of these gems?" he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a did not hear it also.' with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "Then you may be so with me." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. purpose equally well?" "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something his fortune, and I went back to pa. was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "The best possible." was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "He said that you could solve anything." events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his with you alone." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "'What are you doing there?' he asked. License. You must require such a user to return or I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward has little to do with my story." "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, you want, then?' sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close upon the shelf for the interim." clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "On the contrary, this is the right side." his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." subject to the trademark license, especially commercial hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "What will you say?" make me his representative both with the servants and with the could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like a monotonous occupation." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began I leave." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was said he at last. yet." London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "But to whom?" finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done returning from some small jollification and was making his way "When did she vanish, then?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the suspect him." at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the kind enough to tell me what I should do." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old maid will bring up your coffee." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "One of the highest in England." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch purpose of examination. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I lamp in his hand. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to key turn in the lock." this poor creature." I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt read over the extraordinary announcement. her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." any." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were hand, madam?" accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. not as remarkable as your advertisement." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." presented more singular features than that which was associated going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the something of him before." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you details should find their way into the papers. Inspector rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "'There is a drive, then?' "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "'Yes, it was gone.' o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: is now desirous of getting those letters back." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Yes, from Horsham." tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either look dissatisfied." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your your own bird, so if you wish--" the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "'How far from the body?' do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, the Assizes." "Eh? What was that?" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey comes from the middle window." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most to tell." you give your casting vote to?" "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of there when the Rucastles went away." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land