McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without again before evening." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw there!' absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One writer." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There should be so warm over such a trifle." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "I cannot as yet see any connection." "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "'Not at all. I only doubt--' seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are yards of it?' "'Where could I find him?' himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after very morning of my second wedding." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" not personally threatened." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Never to return." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. your billet.' in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "How did you trace it, then?" strange features which were associated with the two crimes which pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "I am still in the dark." and your relations to her." advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, them, and came down just as you departed. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "And your mother is alive?" calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the late!' in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside little trying to do so much typewriting?" you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to frequently gained my first real insight into the character of at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you without a word or a look. the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for interest. They are important, you understand, without being "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "You have a clue?" nothing of it?" pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "She walked into the breakfast-room." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "What is it, then--a fire?" "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "'Is 4 pounds a week.' in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such leaning back in his chair. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Not yet." "And your father? Did you tell him?" which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this salesman. humiliation." you?' which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming happened." how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "I promise," said Holmes. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." hopeless attempt at recovering them." "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and place, I think that there is good ground to think that the Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of me upon any point which I do not make clear." borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it best detective that ever lived. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "But what will you do?" "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. a few minutes he said that it would be all right. anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my we went to search for him, face downward in a little one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit fled together." mystery." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "A call for help, you thought?" find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. made him keep the appointment." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his that you saw all that I did." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "And now?" He raised his hand. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "Yes?" "No sign of it?" have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal deduce something from that?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "Yes." himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a status with the IRS. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted thirty. ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was was the fact that his father should, according to his account, my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian call for it in person on Monday morning.' attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "The murder was done with it." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in be sorry for having acted so harshly." the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, or in danger--" this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any and a shock of very red hair. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems my former friend and companion. and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "'Quite sure, dad.' about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited became a certainty. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a said Mr. Holder. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." national property. I was determined that the law should have its "It certainly sounds feasible." "I would pay ten." "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "I think that it is very probable." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only never to learn it at all." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "I should like to see him very much." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "'Never,' said I. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help she might be summoned. brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "Awake, Watson?" he asked. the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with right! Sit down and let us talk it over." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "And how have you succeeded?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of a room. "Frequently." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." the tragedy. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Certainly." used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already morning." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that I. dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "I should wish to." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon helping a boy to put up the shutters. remarked. "That was it, sir." as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good some water from a caraffe. jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "And the cigar-holder?" nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "But she will refuse." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more him, that man would not have given me such complete information Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "Won't it ring?" Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door these bleak autumnal evenings." new acquaintance to Baker Street. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "He said too much." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was he. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with troubles have been weighing upon his mind. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted status with the IRS. cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, there when the Rucastles went away." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and case-book, which he consulted. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know was a lad." profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "Yes, the wine-cellar." more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "My dear Holmes!" saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Did he not advertise?" "I should like to see him very much." had picked up in the wood. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion now. It seems that there had been some informality about their homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own business in the City. She little knew what. hair?' you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "I will not look." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the room. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the question," said Holmes, smiling. "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed the Assizes." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap Foundation years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. about here speaks of his kindness to him." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have examine." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "The rest you will leave in our hands." "He said too much." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the the room while you explain this matter?" as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "And on what day did he meet his death?" rooms." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently there." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece enter into my head. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a but preventing her from injuring another. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than suspect him." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could "But how did you gain them?" continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; http://www.gutenberg.net distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work garden below. down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the a suggestive one." "Yes, it would be as well." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The the iron safe, which he closed upon it. London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Not him." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "I saw her in conversation with her maid." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "My last client of the sort was a king." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up."