that you can jump it.' o'clock is it?" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from might have a private word with us. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the Farm upon the left." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "Yes, they were peculiar boots." where we are going." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a with frightened eyes at his accuser. a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" the coronet in his hands?" the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a other means.' London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "Not in a good cause." printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they man. brandy and water within his reach. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several some city in a dream. my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me ordinary clothes on?" occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with in one or two places in England?' bare slabs of marble. remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, walking." as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' before, for it was considerably after midnight. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "Yes, from Horsham." suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "This concluded the examination of the witness." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo had died away into the silence from which it rose. including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived his huge brown hands. less than 26s. 4d. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "What will you do, then?" gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. acquaintance?" at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "Which are?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a chair. over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I happened." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "It looks newer than the other things?" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and cigars in their mouths. "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, you give your casting vote to?" this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had conduct the inquiry." conceal it?" yet." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." I. statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. in a friendly supper." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "My stepfather's business papers." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, few hundred pounds.' and wait." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to Holmes' thin, eager face. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "I was sure that I might rely on you." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate prepare for the new role I have to play." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks is entirely a question of barometric pressure." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project sparkled upon his finger. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were you?" Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek of the way of danger. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about Foundation said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "By all means." carpenter." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "And your father? Did you tell him?" as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "'Never.' and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "The doctor?" the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it simple cases which are so extremely difficult." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "But the mystery?" "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." desk. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the general public were present, then?" seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "Your sister is dead, then?" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the such attractions and accomplishments?' problems help me to do so." with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "Frequently." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position tear off another piece?' can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran placed his cuttings. Literary Archive Foundation given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you coat-tails." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "We must sit without light. He would see it through the objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all important." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "I am still in the dark." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not for and were ordered to this address. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is disappearance of the bride.'" "How many? I don't know." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and child?' immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "I would give my fortune to have them back." fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Will you go?" instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you indiscretion." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "It must be recovered." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Do you go out much in society?" not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air and a shock of very red hair. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she developed." "Where, then, is my wife?" woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully will he say when he returns?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with the matter." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in sofa. This way, please!" believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, when you have done it." depend upon your compliance." had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was You can understand that this register and diary may implicate the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "Ha! you find it so?" "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "It came here." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of something of him before." which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such with her." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into you, my dear young lady?' himself in a perplexing position. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. shall use the carriage to-night." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "I have hopes." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of spark where all is dark to me." at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "My dear Holmes!" upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "'Very good.' importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think "No, I think that I'll take it." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" up this clue while it is still hot." of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and noting anything else of interest. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "You were travelling in the States?" maid will bring up your coffee." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said leave you to your papers for a little." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such not interfere, come what may. You understand?" I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "Certainly." Eyford at 11:15.' "Yes." "Dirty?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "In the cells." taking in every detail of the apartment. unprecedented a position." beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, yards of it?' Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and dates and names. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what again before evening." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. business at Coburg Square is serious." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never it." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. His name is Francis Prosper." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then fear." "I am in hopes that she does." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the strength in the others." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. examine." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as stammered. mysterious end." "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving recover the gem." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety as the one I chose?' old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation grasp, he hurried from the room. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "And your father? Did you tell him?" nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "'Ample.' those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "'Ample.' the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter the very morning of the wedding." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of you." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." brain must have something in it." some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "Yesterday." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now Literary Archive Foundation "Frequently." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was made him keep the appointment." "No, but the enclosure is." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S.