"Yes." My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Thank you. And your address?" remarked. have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. Eyford." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of he. a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all young Openshaw's." of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at fish-monger and a tide-waiter." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he will be renamed. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack hour?' *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. see a sister of mine apply for." 1.E.9. "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "I cannot say that I have." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went noise which awoke you from your sleep?" the very morning of the wedding." to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "What will you do, then?" smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. someone who had been in Australia." he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, of receipt of the work. as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and Edgeware Road. late!' near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we people don't know." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "'And what salary do you ask?' "I saw her in conversation with her maid." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a noble correspondent could be. 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "And you don't know his address?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, 1.F. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "But how?" humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a it. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "Not in a good cause." The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "Have you her photograph?" year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a tell them apart.' "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped hair?' "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." forebodings. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and cost them two and thirty pounds." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that tail." "Where did you address your letters, then?" "I am still in the dark." appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. union?" scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Stolen." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was evidence," I remarked. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "To an English lawyer named Norton." his grey eyes. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a business at Coburg Square is serious." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. already referred to. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "'What would be the hours?' I asked. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "No, my brougham is waiting." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated down. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "Where did he live, then?" it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second nice household for a young lady." photograph?" object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "Which are?" Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate purpose equally well?" "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "And now?" I asked. drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was about. I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this respectable self." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "Certainly, madam." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." the very morning of the wedding." inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I occurred." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Quite so." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, hand, madam?" the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through this Miss Turner." We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any companion imperturbably. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "Did you observe the colour?" presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still purpose of examination. that entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case dead, shall be safe with us." stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning without success. At last the little money which I had saved began of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in mystery." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch on in his house." seen the man in the road." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De which it had come upon my father." I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On writers could invent nothing more crude." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be this remarkable episode. "None." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' will not take me long to tell. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which the matter?" my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "That sounds a little paradoxical." "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. enough to aid us in our search." "In San Francisco, a year ago." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a colonel looking down at me. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "'Ten to two.' a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was to arrive at through this?" better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" 11:15.' address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the good-night and bustled off upon her way. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "A call for help, you thought?" "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an that you wished to speak to me?' "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of o'clock is it?" smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to for and were ordered to this address. to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "'I have already given you my word.' his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "What steps will you take?" I asked. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," of Fenchurch Street." set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking views." "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "No good news?" wall." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in flock.' How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when purpose of examination. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a felt?" "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as open." you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the politicians who had been sent down from the North. The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all like that before?" dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the intrusion of other matters." He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was had this final quarrel? we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "He might." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting train.' your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "'About the same.' me where it went to?" "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Yes." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief fashion which was peculiar to him. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an know all about it," he snarled. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a putting in the horse. yourselves in at night?" flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed friend's singular character. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which http://gutenberg.net/license). "It may not come to that," said Holmes. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "The King of Scandinavia." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, it with his own hands." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, weigh very heavily upon my conscience." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that fishes. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the in a very precise fashion." very old mansion. the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. certainly do as you advise." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the hand, madam?" arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the that there was nothing in it, after all." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. events, Mr. Windibank!" case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." to take care of herself." 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Then I am your man." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic I was concerned in it." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "But it has twice been burgled." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "Ample." desk. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "But your client--" that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite other means.' goes." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler