"You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid hereditary King of Bohemia." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "Yes." of it with the greatest attention. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. of receipt of the work. "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and I was concerned in it." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "No sign of it?" to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you Holmes." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such yourselves in at night?" of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "No, distinctly professional." is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the emerged. and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned strong reason behind." he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Very. But will he see it?" with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not which it had come upon my father." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the Surrey." Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "On your arm?" conduct the inquiry." unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough never came back." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer to some other building. "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in lost his Christmas dinner." certainly not very gracious." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Yes, sir." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Here?" of it with the greatest attention. relief. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the strength of mind to control. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly morning." vault. room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "Well, it is a possible supposition." Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "'Ten to two.' "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "Her father is very rich?" "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and fled together." bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "I have hopes." was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the seen the man in the road." Henry Baker is a member." He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Did he not advertise?" lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of this man was intellectual?" I nodded to show that I had heard. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "He is still with you, I presume?" whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "But how did you gain them?" distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If him to go away.' research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the copied or distributed: on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John Young McCarthy must be got off, however." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of that you can jump it.' akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "You will not go there first?" of fine shops and stately business premises that they really is," said he presently: There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the business at Coburg Square is serious." "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "No." your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Very murderous indeed." editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the a few minutes he said that it would be all right. wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it there in twenty minutes." death." without success. At last the little money which I had saved began Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his head. So long, then!" "I fear not." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "What are they?" sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of were new raised from a basin. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Yes." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune legal crime." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "Witness: It was. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." had no one to advise her at such a crisis." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Pray be precise as to details," said he. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "Did you observe the colour?" one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At his cane at the bell-pull. crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he helping a boy to put up the shutters. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt pressing in one house as in another. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his I shall communicate with you." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he will not take me long to tell. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, subject to the trademark license, especially commercial feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "Do you receive much company?" he asked. unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his posted to-day." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Stoke Moran?" said he. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the will find little credit to be gained out of this case." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "Two days later this same performance was gone through under he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "Why did you beat the pavement?" back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, get her out of the way." "'Where to?' "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is for and were ordered to this address. o'clock is it?" wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each His name is Francis Prosper." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need it." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed Countess of Morcar's?" Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his you." crackling voice. "So I heard. You have him here?" "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of hands. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "What do you mean?" me. a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "And I say east," said my patient. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases have one." I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached fluttered off among the others. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you this remarkable episode. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "You horrify me!" such person." opened the door, and slipped through. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Perfectly so." business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began danger is over." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Do you receive much company?" he asked. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my that threaten you." in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "I say it is." character. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and in the hope of finding them." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "This concluded the examination of the witness." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would to Leatherhead. as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the criminal. We have already had experience of such." "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one that nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note the little opening for the ventilator is." "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own Street. the matter?" "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. jewels which you have stolen?' "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "Did you observe the colour?" comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "And Miss Sutherland?" how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner father's young wife. "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "And you don't know his address?" remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be I approached. foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the even so self-evident a thing as that." "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and delighted to hear it," he said. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But them?" Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her unkempt, staring out at me. "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in bears upon the case?" "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work during that time.' for its centre. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the lids now and glanced across at his visitor. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in true." works. A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Was there a secret marriage?" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have better in every way that they should make their position a little the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, Foundation Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Yes, he did." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "And how did he make his money?" was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no there has been an enclosure here!" breakfast?" village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the a room. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "I came to find a friend." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "She will not sell." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon of them has the shutters up.' his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he likely to be some crony of the landlady's." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the later, upon the night of May 2nd." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "In San Francisco, a year ago." Again Holmes raved in the air. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. spark where all is dark to me." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in Sutherland?" he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, awkward doing business with an alias." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third pierced for earrings?" strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "The vanishing of the lady." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous wedding?" he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few sofa. This way, please!" I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "Get out!" said he. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his come either from the window or the door. My attention was dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to photograph a cabinet?" "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." presume?" his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into