business matters.' not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "ARAT," I read. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a to talk it over. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "I have a cab outside." thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend to some other building. along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly trifles." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge ceremony." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror your equipment. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a go from here to the Strand." uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle main points of my analysis." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "He is dead," cried several voices. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "So I heard. You have him here?" bears upon the case?" future lives." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was house for five minutes.' do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," own family. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It national property. I was determined that the law should have its Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it But Holmes shook his head gravely. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "So I am. Very much so." "It is half-past ten now." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "And Miss Sutherland?" being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "How about poison?" Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my shall not find me ungrateful." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be in the dead of the night?' "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "'A dozen yards or so.' my little problems." asked with his eyes open. "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, I nodded again. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "Yes, from Horsham." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves the ceiling. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are your room." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Project Gutenberg-tm works. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "Where is it, then?" was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile late!' gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises to change my dress. "Bought." "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "To the police?" dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "And why?" prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Why? What do you mean?" at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg ways of our fellow-men." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. long narrative. cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this whether it answered to the description of any of their observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "It certainly sounds feasible." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Ten will be early enough." the general public were present, then?" "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend crackling voice. to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "He is dead," cried several voices. some city in a dream. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." clanging. remarked. sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time and have this put in the evening papers." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed leave you to your papers for a little." including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary the roots. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Henry Baker is a member." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we the general public were present, then?" isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin becomes even more simple." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, your equipment. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "Then you may be so with me." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. name is different." "I beg pardon." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, trying to your nerves." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which read it out to me." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded would apply.' I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear past. remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Stoke Moran?" said he. "I will do it." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "When did it break out?" it." "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." when you have done it." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "Never." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "It must be recovered." A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." from you?" to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very maid will bring up your coffee." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "The decline of his fortunes, then?" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate cheerful." The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and that I can to serve you." and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off hurried away. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may hour?' started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds tightly behind him. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "And you don't know his address?" a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "We must have a cab." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were side. then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and heavily into it. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "You have it, sir, just as it happened." I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "That sounds a little paradoxical." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert woman." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards outbreak?" say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until later, upon the night of May 2nd." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "What I expected to see." even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If acquaintance?" "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the of them has the shutters up.' outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson despaired of." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his and your relations to her." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or was a perfect sample of the class. "'What do you call purely nominal?' north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "It is half-past ten now." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "But it has twice been burgled." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "And how?" behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when in this note: a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning intrusion of other matters." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "Well, some hundreds of times." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been burst out into a roar of laughter. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, our word." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking address. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' to take care of herself." most interesting one." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "ARAT," I read. what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "Witness: I must still refuse. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady your Highness to the police-station?" "And the murderer?" was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when orange pips. and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with John Swain, of St. Augustine. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was matter." advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, appointment with me for six o'clock?" tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "What of the rat, then?" learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the again on its way. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The the coronet at all injured?" object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he fattened it expressly for you.' that, and I came down." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most written. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "I will get her to show me." "To an end?" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! to have that photograph." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to fasten all the windows?" stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the some terrible trap for her." smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock south, for the country is more deserted there." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which strength." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six in him." "I say that I have solved it." as the one I chose?' named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that bare slabs of marble. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not threw himself down with his face to the pillow. wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." or other trace. But how on earth--" "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the is," said he presently: "Then, as to money?" conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' said I. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I laugh and put his lips to my ear. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the