think, you have already met." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "Her father is very rich?" who was a member of your goose club." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" most interesting one." sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, laugh and put his lips to my ear. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo room. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are pound a week." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "I was afraid that you were engaged." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and room. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a correct than the official force." that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two results." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is telegram would bring me down to your help." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "His face fell immediately. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of not as remarkable as your advertisement." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "Very truly yours, washing it down with a long draught of water. expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of system of imprisonment?" deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just triumphant cloud from his cigarette. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Very. But will he see it?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account front of the hall door has given its name to the place. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. straightened it out again. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." you?' "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, could gather together that I was able to avert another public lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "I guessed as much." again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "What do you mean?" and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you business." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, appointment with me for six o'clock?" eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, papers must be those that are destroyed.' "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "I have seen the police." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "But how?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You entirely devoid of interest." "And what did you learn from him?" suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "My own seal." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "That you are never beaten." believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Ten will be early enough." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know His smile broadened. speckled band?" this man was intellectual?" grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which once more to my work. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, to some other building. no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "How about poison?" continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "Yes, sir." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from upon an income of about 60 pounds." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, as yours." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon know that the truth is known." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in coroner's jury." better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs round with crates and massive boxes. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "Have you her photograph?" all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and chambers. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated written. instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for gone before you can get him to hospital." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my could go. St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand John Swain, of St. Augustine. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of happened." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking have not had my rubber." sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "How do you know, then?" down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "'I have heard so.' The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I so.' "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always been." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even to that open window." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got noise which awoke you from your sleep?" which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Then I can wait in the next room." disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "Yes, it was twisted." hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "How did you deduce the select?" would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder forecastle of an emigrant ship. "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "If I can be of use." "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" I held the little printed slip to the light. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" crime." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped will be renamed. "How on earth--" teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it himself to hunt down. The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the case-book, which he consulted. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "What I expected to see." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect wedding?" premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' Leave Paddington by the 11:15." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "Yes, sir." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "It came here." maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say words came to my lips. "Your sister is dead, then?" weary and pale-looking. "You think so, too?" as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that locked." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us the side-table." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found front of the hall door has given its name to the place. not come at once?" "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it His smile broadened. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be door?" "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven have got?" "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I again on its way. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "The rest you will leave in our hands." copied or distributed: "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "My dear Holmes!" "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I would give my fortune to have them back." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and fact, we may call it conclusive." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "'Certainly not.' the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "I cannot tell." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of the Friday. Was it to be in church?" morning." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in again." sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court Miss Holder?" broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "I should like to see him very much." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" maiden herself was most instructive." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which me upon any point which I do not make clear." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "What then?" "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "That is not always so easy." the little figure of the lad who drove him. 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I call him father, though it sounds funny, "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in I was concerned in it." his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one cigars in their mouths. "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the question you as to those details which seem to me to be most had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen Foundation Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He disappearance of the bride.'" too. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "Nothing." least a fellow-countryman. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an of fine shops and stately business premises that they really discontent upon his features. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George time." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two dramatic, in fact." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." astonishment. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. lamp. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt morning." itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that front of the hall door has given its name to the place. edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "I know where it is." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "I fear not." day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all asked. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and voice. stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is have not had my rubber." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence delirious. "VIOLET HUNTER." found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery 1.E.9. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "What, then, did Peterson do?" green of the new foliage. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK it means?" answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "Just look it up, then." your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our DISSOLVED. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am been deceived." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. side. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his been shamefully used." that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called DAMAGE. "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. call it cruel." sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just lectures into a series of tales." before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever