Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys standing smiling on the door-step. without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little to go into your room and bar your shutters?" for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his like that before?" should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again again, where I was soon asleep. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And again before evening." cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in which we had just quitted. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which held up the lantern and gazed about him. "One of the highest in England." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss envelope. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the some mystery and the punishment of some crime." it." "How did he come?" the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and indeed which he could not unravel. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Absolutely?" "And why in hopes?" downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "It looks newer than the other things?" Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." as noiselessly as she had come. was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "I guessed as much." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was enter Dr. Roylott's room." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Of Friday, June 19th." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. writing, and yet I know it well." "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "Nothing." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of eat it." to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal will take you up to see the machine.' "Of what day?" it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked shaken than I had ever seen him. "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "But not more so than I to find you." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "Was your sister dressed?" stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and behind me. Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Because he was handy and would come cheap." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "By no means." shall not find me ungrateful." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, before, for it was considerably after midnight. have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Frequently." the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of your sleep?' and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key with the outside air!" "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "You are all wrong." Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the chance at all." signal between you and your father? "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then vague figure huddled up in the darkness. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the case-book, which he consulted. writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be least a fellow-countryman. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "I say that I have solved it." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting yards of it?' best detective that ever lived. my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at said he. Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or of a light. year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Yes, that is the Crown." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "I fear not." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a considering the formidable letters which were received by himself yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope question," said Holmes, smiling. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "It is a murder, then?" girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Your presence might be invaluable." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "He is still with you, I presume?" "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who cigars in their mouths. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little of them has the shutters up.' yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO is now desirous of getting those letters back." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a was already answered. were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let business in the City. She little knew what. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were lectures into a series of tales." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his upon a handsome competence. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "My Mary? Impossible!" "And why?" isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "What of the rat, then?" that I may have something better before very many minutes are The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, he died? I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had the matter?" deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "And did you observe any change in her then?" How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw strength." confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "Always." pierced for earrings?" work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her Sutherland. "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no chance at all." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I fishes. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "'What are you doing there?' he asked. exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet outside. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son putting in the horse. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "How do you know, then?" himself to tell his story. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. voice, changing her seat as requested. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." the devil!" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "One?" Pool. "My dear Holmes!" "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "The best possible." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "And how did you find out?" lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in washing it down with a long draught of water. "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "Nearly eleven." "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and His smile broadened. other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four What do you deduce from it?" "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled swore that no one else had been in the front room during the I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, was shining brightly. has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort himself. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the less than 26s. 4d. Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "He is dead," cried several voices. grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "'I am sure that I do not know.' two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us straightened it out again. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Yes. He waved his hands." "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and character. photograph?" herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I gone. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and shaken than I had ever seen him. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" wedding?" he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for call for protection in the marriage market, for the present laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "I saw her in conversation with her maid." forehead. I. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, which our visitor detailed to us. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." the Assizes." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt John Swain, of St. Augustine. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "I shall most certainly do so." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "It is to him that this trophy belongs." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come strength in the others." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "No, I think that I'll take it." morning." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Pray be precise as to details," said he. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten it with his own hands." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "And you don't know his address?" permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was sofa. This way, please!" papers." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." had died away into the silence from which it rose. new duties?' homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then the very morning of the wedding." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day down in his armchair and closing his eyes. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and power." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions ashen face. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." detained." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" begin with, and I had not got mine yet." maid will bring up your coffee." every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot rooms." was it brought him the coronet? acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is you came in." police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "But we can't all be." looking up at the numbers of the houses." "I beg pardon." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for could not have written that. It is the German who is so for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for carriage. It was a chestnut." "That is unusual in a young girl." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I visitors." scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By the morning and make my own way in the world.' "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand extraordinary contortions. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "Why did you pick him?" "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable keep the flames under. village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had one of the states of the Union." black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "She told me to ask you." questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I pound a week." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. would apply.' With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes impression behind it as though a window had gently closed blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at province." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder For additional contact information: respectable self." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of the coronet at all injured?" stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and