prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered weary and pale-looking. "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned Holmes." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "But I am all in the dark." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "But she will refuse." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, investigation." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the brandy and water within his reach. "What is it?" with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." them?" an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' me have 200 pounds?' "None." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting Count Von Kramm." "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as before, for it was considerably after midnight. villagers almost as much as their master. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side evidence," I remarked. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP might have a private word with us. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "I have hopes." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "How did you trace it, then?" Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. child?' quickly through a disagreeable task. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where way in everything. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an could not have written that. It is the German who is so investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is details should find their way into the papers. Inspector calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his quickly through a disagreeable task. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare figure." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other business?" "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "No more words. Get out!" foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "And how did you find out?" had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom me what he had done with the three missing stones. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Was the window open?" half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "Tired-looking or fresh?" professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" room had already been engaged for us. "Yes, certainly." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the charged with?" red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "I was sure that I might rely on you." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. detective. scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until was feeling which was the fattest.' "'And the work?' the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a papers must be those that are destroyed.' and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place know all about it," he snarled. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "Nothing." presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "I was mad--insane." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her main points of my analysis." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to purpose equally well?" my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "I don't believe it." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." nothing with him." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and woman." "What! a murderous attack?" whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" door?" from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning outsides of the windows. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "And when will you call?" danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips highly," said Holmes. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "There are none." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could and put his glass in his pocket. that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "Never." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I crowd. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. promised to bring home. will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just formed some opinion?" on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down foresight and the moral retrogression?" "Do you receive much company?" he asked. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the ashen face. manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "Have you her photograph?" any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' do you make of it all?" companion quietly. But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any the side-table." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling guilty parties." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "Could he throw no light?" coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "Then, as to money?" examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." interested in these little problems, and since you are good "So I heard. You have him here?" hour." confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "I shall most certainly do so." which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present appeared upon the scene." are, I think, all that we need." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser since then to throw any light upon what became of him." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine wedding?" stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "'Tell me all about it,' said I. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance the Friday. Was it to be in church?" be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence down. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "Yes, sir." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "But it has twice been burgled." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely union?" thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a my secret was safe in his possession. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "'Is 4 pounds a week.' eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at heavy and sharp instrument." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "But how will you look?" a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "I was sure that I might rely on you." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb tell me that you intended to go into harness." "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** one else, I think." called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I learned something! Where are the gems?" know what is wrong with it.' halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "And the murderer?" When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "Well." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was "I see many objections to any such theory." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Street. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." and that he would see to anything that turned up. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the of campaign. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed even so self-evident a thing as that." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a became a certainty. "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "It missed him, then?" "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the it." round with crates and massive boxes. through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "'Very good.' "I beg pardon." he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "But you can know nothing of this?" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." of receipt of the work. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "This concluded the examination of the witness." of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "It is very kind of you." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At the salesman. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my and capable of preserving a secret.' receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the coroner's jury." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "In answer to an advertisement." across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with I nodded to show that I had heard. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "Where, then?" home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "But we can't all be." back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "This photograph!" there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "'It is locked up,' I answered. "Absolutely?" "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "But to whom?" should be taken.' begin with, and I had not got mine yet." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran past. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and never came back." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give Countess of Morcar's?" well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "I am armed." bell. Holmes whistled. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the which was all perfectly true. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery was a loud and authoritative tap. occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Tired-looking or fresh?" very old mansion. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "But his left-handedness." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "I have seen the police." ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his reach." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "Yes. He waved his hands." for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of believe that I should never have any practice at all. of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "And leave your case unfinished?" "I have my revolver," said I. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his