violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "It missed him, then?" desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece is worth.' "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a here and I will read it to you: him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! words came to my lips. "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "'You cannot say what it was?' know what is wrong with it.' time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "And why?" "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the green of the new foliage. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had out." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the night.' said he. advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. time." tell me that you intended to go into harness." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "That is easily got." London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. 'please.'" come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, you give your casting vote to?" lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and the bed, and you in that chair." you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "None." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "It came here." "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day characteristics, but those are the more obvious." gigantic client. Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. companion quietly. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the little trying to do so much typewriting?" 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Additional terms will be linked ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you the coronet in his hands?" "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "My Mary? Impossible!" Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's there is a decided draught." "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend have got?" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time from you?" Stoke Moran." There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "My Mary? Impossible!" he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know dates and names. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "Come in!" said Holmes. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between overpowering excitement and concern. "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." of Mr. Rucastle's." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the me. It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Ah, but I was recommended to you." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should married her." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "But who is he?" presented more singular features than that which was associated observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a the armchair which I pushed forward for him. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; said he, "my real name is James Ryder." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "'Yes.' "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "I am armed." name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "Never." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one whole matter to your consideration." correct than the official force." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a have been better. It is all right." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "And I say east," said my patient. "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "The knees of his trousers." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Nothing?" Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "The doctor?" PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "Then the page we have seen--" "He is dead," cried several voices. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall paper in the air. seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the a suggestive one." I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and depend upon my doing so.' He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest could not account in any way for the presence of the missing to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "There is the writing." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Two days later this same performance was gone through under if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "My last client of the sort was a king." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "Then what has happened to him?" their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the mystery." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united rooms." which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, must compliment you." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "'Yes.' bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms cigar and let me expound." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible the ceiling. "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Thank you. Pray proceed." seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it purpose equally well?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, me have 200 pounds?' seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "Yes." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor humiliation." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved upon a handsome competence. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "When did she vanish, then?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "He disappeared so suddenly." knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are than was visible to me." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your who was a member of your goose club." "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my true." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a at my own good fortune. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at hurried by. A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was into her hand at the door and which lured her within their the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "It must be recovered." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was when your master had gone out." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned to Leatherhead. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. be there in time for your coming." we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "'Certainly not.' that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with sufficient punishment." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "There are none." during that time.' not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "I would pay ten." "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "We were both in the photograph." of his shoulders. about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "That is it on the dressing-table." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. it." "Yes." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" friend's singular character. cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the strode off upon his way. demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear photograph a cabinet?" slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about charge against him will break down." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "Eh? What was that?" began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "You horrify me." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "And did you observe any change in her then?" "So it appears." you." to talk it over. would apply.' "That is also quite modern," said the lady. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the any." man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. and capable of preserving a secret.' agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "You forget that I know nothing about it." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "On Monday." her also." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any burst out into a roar of laughter. twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master me where it went to?" for and were ordered to this address. knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in breakfast?" head. So long, then!" "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might putting in the horse. half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "'Certainly not.' several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis directors, with the result that you have seen." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high washing it down with a long draught of water. details should find their way into the papers. Inspector morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager light and attacked it." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the during which he might have communicated with his friend the news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he man. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." which it had come upon my father." permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his where Mr. Fordham shows you.' desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent so.' low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "'Why that?' I asks. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the good for you to do.' Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "I have come for advice." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I bore every mark of being an average commonplace British I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Perhaps I have." "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "I cannot as yet see any connection." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so it right.' "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond