"But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts 'I should be able to look after that for you.' the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter and laid it on the table. upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself Leave Paddington by the 11:15." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At later, upon the night of May 2nd." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in official police." which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "Now, then, what's the last entry?" hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted not as remarkable as your advertisement." I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor purpose of examination. desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or vanished into the darkness. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "Where is it, then?" back alive. with her." this Miss Turner." rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get leave you to your papers for a little." "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in 11:15.' who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "And what then?" the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, use an arc-and-compass breastpin." large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had this as likely?" pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," child?' your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are is so. I know all about McCarthy." sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. and inquire as to the address." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. better in every way that they should make their position a little signal between you and your father? whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." were unconscious?" "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. my former friend and companion. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel has little to do with my story." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters troubles have been weighing upon his mind. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "Well, some hundreds of times." "What! You do not mean bodies?" Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Yes." fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which of Mr. Rucastle's." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, hurried by. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by the coronet at all injured?" of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. emerged. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "It looks newer than the other things?" wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the wall." "ARAT," I read. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "What of the rat, then?" to change my dress. his grey eyes. thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep whereabouts. Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It DAMAGE. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. chance at all." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a of Fenchurch Street." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "'Most admirably.' "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from legal crime." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near a suggestive one." crowd. little adventures." bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one the tragedy. While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "How did that help you?" ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds best detective that ever lived. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no could gather together that I was able to avert another public will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness conduct the inquiry." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived would then never go into court at all." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as had picked up in the wood. showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings the window, rose as we entered. license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, pictures, libraries, or plate. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost prisoner's face. home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest to tackle the facts." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, Pope's Court. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage way: "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her already referred to. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "But not more so than I to find you." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our detained." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "9th. McCauley cleared. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "But it has twice been burgled." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "And it is--" Cross for the Continent." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "Where, then?" went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his observed. "No, but the enclosure is." never will be, entirely cleared up. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "Was he the only applicant?" made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "And what then?" That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "He is still with you, I presume?" to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right have one." Again Holmes raved in the air. scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Yes." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." where we are going." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "If so, much may have happened between." that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "It was." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him singular points about the case. What did the police think of the method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four the child." There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "To an English lawyer named Norton." narrative." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "He said too much." "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' writing, and yet I know it well." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "And the murderer?" had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you did not hear it also.' be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "Never to return." business came to an end." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put it means?" and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "Very truly yours, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" unclasping of his long thin hands. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "And Irene Adler?" me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "'As governess?' "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with nothing of it?" as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and made him keep the appointment." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and round with crates and massive boxes. "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the mystery may be cleared along those lines." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only least a most suspicious remark." for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and happened." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "Where did he live, then?" from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "You have it, sir, just as it happened." chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air residence of the great financier. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so matter over." "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your to-night's adventure." strong reason behind." "Very. But will he see it?" what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny returning from some small jollification and was making his way and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve I held the little printed slip to the light. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "And Irene Adler?" details should find their way into the papers. Inspector 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my have been better. It is all right." horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but fluttered off among the others. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found of the one which your family is now devouring." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of memory. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "No." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous as he remarks, very much against the son." Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. to affect your life." face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others During two years I have had three consultations and one small rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. congenial hunt. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "What can it mean?" I gasped. hurried by. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was was keenly on my guard against him. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, before the coroner and the police-court." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, will find little credit to be gained out of this case." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of other, as fresh and trim as possible. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is might help us?" impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. strength in the others." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry