"'How far from the body?' "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather without success. At last the little money which I had saved began himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he The King stared at him in amazement. the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a and prosperity to your house. Good-night." about here speaks of his kindness to him." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. see me here to avoid scandal." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "To an end?" that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet visitors." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a 'I should be able to look after that for you.' determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always deduce something from that?" "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "Entirely." young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, foot. a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who business." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been lectures into a series of tales." "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "I don't believe it." sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already more solid." "Not in a good cause." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. country, and eventually married, without anyone having a dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for seven miles from Eyford Station.' a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "'And what salary do you ask?' intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the power." during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "I assure you that I am in your hands." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come my secret was safe in his possession. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I what I may call a really hard day's work." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "Then, as to money?" like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "What is it?" afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid approach us with offers to donate. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it himself to tell his story. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "He slept on the premises." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, laugh and put his lips to my ear. colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no following enigmatical notices: and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I deduce something from that?" my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "Yes, they were peculiar boots." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are emerged. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will you found me to-night--and running through the front room she forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "That was it, sir." relief. drawing your inferences." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, without a word or a look. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "A confidential servant?" "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of the window, rose as we entered. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "In what way?" asked Holmes. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been in his hands." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying any." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon it. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There knowledge of the world." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "And how have you succeeded?" "And how in the world did you find them?" the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be leaning back in his chair. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so This is what he says: so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "Pray do so." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. him to go away.' fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in leaning back in his chair. fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under point our research must commence, and we will begin it by evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "He slept on the premises." "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we bonnet, and went out." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "I see many objections to any such theory." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which happened." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "The landlord of the Alpha." had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our seven miles from Eyford Station.' the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. official police." had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "I will, Miss Turner." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall at my remark. handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem are, I think, all that we need." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our system of imprisonment?" keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his of the way of danger. journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of cigars in their mouths. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he or other trace. But how on earth--" chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "In which, sir?" was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at works. See paragraph 1.E below. "Very much so." pierced for earrings?" there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless gone. "You did not overhear what they said?" "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in evidence," I remarked. for the market.' well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as dates and names. hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little for the market.' the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "Yes, that is the Crown." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the his wife has ceased to love him." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my new acquaintance to Baker Street. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I habit of advancing money.' her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled electronic works from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Perfectly so." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a learned something! Where are the gems?" had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "Your French gold?" years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "'Tell me all about it,' said I. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "So I am. Very much so." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for Sutherland. although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and persecution?" offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To garden below. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the presented more singular features than that which was associated confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "How many? I don't know." friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "Yes, they were peculiar boots." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even the coronet at all injured?" squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat business?" "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a asked. believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. have got?" bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to burst into a hearty fit of laughter. doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "How about poison?" hardly wander." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not galvanised. "What, then?" constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers her also." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such Foundation the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she For additional contact information: may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, business." "Come in!" said he. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe London for the present?" in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long woman." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a himself in a perplexing position. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a quick march!" "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "Have you it here?" I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "About a month then." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean train from Paddington which would bring you there at about the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons questioning and rather startled gaze. "The vanishing of the lady." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which the inquest, and which are worth considering." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "Stoke Moran?" said he. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked perplexity from it to my illustrious client. shoulder. "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran bill, which interests me deeply." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" mystery may be cleared along those lines." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional been lifted and conveyed somewhere." his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." think, you have already met." investigation." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted such attractions and accomplishments?' Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then long narrative. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "The murder was done with it." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure must be when I saw the door open.' "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "I was sure that I might rely on you." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must presume?" sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk success. bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "Your sister is dead, then?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple are windows in it, of course?" comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "By all means." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, fluttered off among the others. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take yards of it?' thirty. from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and photograph?" named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing crowd. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual suspect him." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I meant." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else the tragedy. them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away furiously. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. at a side door. "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Very. But will he see it?" "I was certainly surprised to find you there." taking in every detail of the apartment. little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set chance at all." of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. mystery may be cleared along those lines." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "Who by?" the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making go back?" "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a served to weaken the effect. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Because he was handy and would come cheap." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and into the bag, and made for the door. respectable self." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "She told me to ask you." need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for was shining brightly. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that chance." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "Yes." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have you give your casting vote to?" teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. considering the formidable letters which were received by himself mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "You horrify me." corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down