Edgeware Road. this man was intellectual?" furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the photograph?" Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Ample." "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for quick march!" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress prison!" the stable lane now." little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble know what is wrong with it.' the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "And now?" He raised his hand. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle children over to America with him, so that I found myself without have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "Why did you pick him?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have obstinate." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not ready to-morrow?' charged with?" expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under maid will bring up your coffee." "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, at once, for I have only half an hour." footfalls from the street. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him events than those which have happened in my own family." shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is and looked back. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its that there was nothing in it, after all." "What I expected to see." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "Then I am your man." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt jewels which you have stolen?' "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of conduct the inquiry." know that the truth is known." cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to orange pips. from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey Serpentine Avenue. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "I have my revolver," said I. and the whole place is in a blaze." England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then swore that no one else had been in the front room during the misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever nice household for a young lady." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "I don't believe it." large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "Did your wife hear all this?" very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in that I can to serve you." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper and have this put in the evening papers." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. have an American origin." It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely hour." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well seven miles from Eyford Station.' "Was he the only applicant?" It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the green of the new foliage. shall use the carriage to-night." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "What will you do, then?" "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the appeared upon the scene." would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "I am sure." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "I have my revolver," said I. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, strength." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for children over to America with him, so that I found myself without where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her that you saw all that I did." "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham until night should bring an explanation. "Then I can wait in the next room." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "You have the photograph?" errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "Certainly." The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Certainly." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from the coronet in his hands?" the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I it right.' which are rolled in Rotterdam." next day. valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. Munro.' "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Where did you address your letters, then?" "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in there." however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "'Never.' o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say public press." Chief Executive and Director you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw bled considerably." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Then the page we have seen--" effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar footfalls from the street. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, what I may call a really hard day's work." "It came here." Again Holmes raved in the air. crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from that I may have something better before very many minutes are the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "What of the rat, then?" collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them meant it for the best. have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend papers must be those that are destroyed.' seen the man in the road." of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself Holmes. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Nothing?" stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Come in!" said Holmes. was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "How on earth--" "And why?" paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, served to weaken the effect. know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "Then I can wait in the next room." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent taking in every detail of the apartment. you give your casting vote to?" ran thus: paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "You think so, too?" and the church but not where the lady lived." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly records." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this security.' is a common subject for conversation. himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in upon an income of about 60 pounds." clang of the bell. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the you in yours." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "No?" attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, tell them apart.' "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The husband's writing, madam." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "If so, much may have happened between." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "Your sister is dead, then?" street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." could gather together that I was able to avert another public "And is that all?" I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination his huge brown hands. "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "No, I think that I'll take it." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "Perfectly so." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. III. and looked back. case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute business at Coburg Square is serious." with some details as to your case." laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could upon the white wrist. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave think, you have already met." kindly on the shoulder. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of presume?" the coronet in his hand?" slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "'I have already given you my word.' immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this until night should bring an explanation. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that other means.' '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is I was concerned in it." set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and to go into your room and bar your shutters?" weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "And I." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of appeared upon the scene." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "'I am sure that I do not know.' connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the simple cases which are so extremely difficult." in a very precise fashion." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" certainly not very gracious." Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices certainly do as you advise." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Never." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new empty. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' directly by questioning you." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" views." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking meanly of me." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every garden below. continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line nothing of it?" at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both Lee, in the county of Kent." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "I am all attention, madam." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is said I. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the forehead. lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "Ah, but I was recommended to you." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his events than those which have happened in my own family." perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more breakfast." dead, shall be safe with us." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was confronted him. this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made constraint." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it