'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be direction." at a side door. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt his grey eyes. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he sufficient punishment." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was burst into a hearty fit of laughter. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. from you?" we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the up this clue while it is still hot." and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only new duties?' this man was intellectual?" with the outside air!" "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' conversation I have gathered that they have been married about There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "And I say east," said my patient. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had bare slabs of marble. "On Monday." "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "Which surely he restored to their owner?" The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to I nodded again. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture do you make of it all?" cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel daring than any effort of the imagination." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his someone who had been in Australia." "Yes, certainly." had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she your sleep?' prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, friends, not even his own brother. charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are delighted to hear it," he said. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Now, then, what's the last entry?" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will despaired of." fasten all the windows?" even so self-evident a thing as that." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "But how?" or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "No, I think that I'll take it." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be go--none." standing smiling on the door-step. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us said he. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of his face which made him a very different person to the round, Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "It is no ordinary one." "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "And you thought he was pulled back?" absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Then how many are there?" round and wave him away like that.' quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them that he has suffered." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he the very morning of the wedding." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "How did you deduce the select?" pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and your only hope of safety." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "You saw the ventilator, too?" feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "The decline of his fortunes, then?" even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "And I to find an enemy." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar his face. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason wall." some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the problems help me to do so." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any asked with his eyes open. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "That you are never beaten." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." which I could not give. He asked for Alice. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "I know where it is." that before taking the final step I should like to submit the through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon the salesman. most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a status with the IRS. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another acquaintance?" Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his green of the new foliage. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Nothing." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no directly by questioning you." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to results." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part for securing the situation." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose future lives." when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down certainly do as you advise." platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. there!' firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed humiliation." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be the Red-headed League." prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable what do you think they found in the pockets?" contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as footfalls from the street. feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the Edgeware Road. whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "It is solved." from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Yes." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. into the room. cost them two and thirty pounds." the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not nice household for a young lady." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "Absolutely?" out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I suddenly upon us." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "Thank you. And your address?" him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very Street. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this desk. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his cost them two and thirty pounds." there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." your only hope of safety." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a yourselves in at night?" several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little burst out into a roar of laughter. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily residence of the great financier. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "But how did you gain them?" with you?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "'You cannot say what it was?' too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." later, upon the night of May 2nd." were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the you." down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper depend upon my doing so.' them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely window when the police appeared." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "Then the page we have seen--" had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "I think it very unlikely." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all residence of the great financier. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "That is possible." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On that you saw all that I did." London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "Ten will be early enough." might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "His face fell immediately. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob nice household for a young lady." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "BALLARAT." a little more before I quite committed myself. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "You horrify me." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "Why did you beat the pavement?" The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "Really! You surprise me." business?" stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "Quite so. She has her freedom." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "'I shall certainly be there.' "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I respectable self." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "Yes, sir." father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. been able to understand it, in a very few words. Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." maiden herself was most instructive." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an that you can jump it.' The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "Imitated." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "Nothing?" few hundred pounds.' For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "Yes, from Horsham." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush public press." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now interest. They are important, you understand, without being India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "By all means." should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest for its centre. floor. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in green of the new foliage. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "To the police?" seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "You think that he is dead?" difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. cigars in their mouths. had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "What do you mean?" The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "'What do you call purely nominal?' uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of front of the hall door has given its name to the place. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his his knees, staring into the fire. upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite carriage. It was a chestnut." "He might." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you occupations.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country companion. He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in official police." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Quite so. She has her freedom." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point the coroner come to?" would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this families. Now for the facts. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "Witness: I must still refuse. "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it photograph a cabinet?" We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." do you make of it all?" coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "A thing like a cleaver," said he. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "That sounds a little paradoxical." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then all-comprehensive glances. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted during that time.'