opened a pocket-book and took out a note. o'clock is it?" to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "Who was the criminal, then?" strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle disturbance in my wife." wedding?" look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face breakfast?" was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl the running down." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in villagers almost as much as their master. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of showing my impatience. peculiar to him. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can that you wished to speak to me?' "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing behind me. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Do you know him?" his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper good-night and bustled off upon her way. spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "How about poison?" "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him I have it here in my museum." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the you understand?" Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I manager. outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "How did you deduce the select?" "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become whether it answered to the description of any of their again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." outside. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "No, my brougham is waiting." extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have returning from some small jollification and was making his way doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with I shall communicate with you." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, sake, don't!" than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but ways including including checks, online payments and credit card like gravel from a pit.' work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "Very well, sir. And this stone?" incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside village inn over there?" their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the situation." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn I. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were province." "Imitated." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to during that time.' Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Did you observe the colour?" to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. father's young wife. "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Which surely he restored to their owner?" this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "What! You do not mean bodies?" solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his recall any case within my experience which looked at the first If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "And what did you learn from him?" off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. to me. "And help." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, upon a handsome competence. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "'Yes, sir.' Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an You want to know what became of those geese?" "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And night.' said he. events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has handed it to him. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have as this. Pray let me have the details." handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my of." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and behind me. window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a me what he had done with the three missing stones. the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he future lives." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon again." we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. imbecility!" he cried. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He hour." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I foot. trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "You are certainly joking, Holmes." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds humiliation." him and tried to hold him back. after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were was the fact that his father should, according to his account, the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came him!" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it Miss Holder?" streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before the one as in the other." I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "Was your sister dressed?" - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture four million human beings all jostling each other within the cigars in their mouths. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the points to suicide?" as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess friend's singular character. breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "'What then?' I asked. and the church but not where the lady lived." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt Miss Holder?" address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Certainly." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." six. Come in!" he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not hands. to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to amused." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "The King of Scandinavia." "May I see it?" very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "Yes." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a residence of the great financier. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another were unconscious?" "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "Come in!" said Holmes. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "I was mad--insane." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third ourselves in the office." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was conclusions. "Witness: Nothing definite. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that was used.' red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "Yes." like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "In heaven's name, what for?" hour?' connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is could not have written that. It is the German who is so "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "None." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "You think so, too?" Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "If I can be of use." "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my hard-headed British jury." thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and III. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the status with the IRS. of Mr. Rucastle's." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of experiences." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it mystery may be cleared along those lines." it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Yesterday." vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that you came in." "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, The King stared at him in amazement. every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely held up the lantern and gazed about him. the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "Well, but China?" his face which made him a very different person to the round, To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are of it with the greatest attention. "Only as much as we can deduce." if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose what these perils are?" back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if long narrative. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "It is very kind of you." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the shag which I had seen upon the previous night. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the know that the truth is known." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered three fields round his house, and there he would take his impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every ways of our fellow-men." mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed to me. that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "You are hungry," I remarked. and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." is now desirous of getting those letters back." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' three fields round his house, and there he would take his "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "ARAT," I read. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Pray let us have it, for all that." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a for and were ordered to this address. of the vacancies.' out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "I saw her in conversation with her maid." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into conversation I have gathered that they have been married about then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose disappearance of these gems?" came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some is acting for the best. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are for its centre. her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had take the flies, but not before." "The rest you will leave in our hands." "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "You did not overhear what they said?" has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert man. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was It may be so in this case, also." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" I took the paper from him and read as follows: place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "How about poison?" himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle absorbing." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll look dissatisfied." "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step you." forebodings. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His interest. They are important, you understand, without being to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where