sit on the left-hand side of the driver." inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of approach us with offers to donate. indeed which he could not unravel. home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "Upon what point?" accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up residence of the great financier. employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." do.' he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo shoulder; "he's all right." Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "He said that you could solve anything." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were the inquest, and which are worth considering." "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to public press." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There are windows in it, of course?" he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "10th. John Swain cleared. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "And for present expenses?" knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I here and I will read it to you: enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your matters immensely." promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "And how?" and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this present." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "Pray tell us what has happened to you." Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then back to my heart. return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and see me here to avoid scandal." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable business." nonsense.' They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that residence of the great financier. "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "Your sister is dead, then?" saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must point in the dark hollow of his hand. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." the King without delay." your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in very old mansion. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "What!" he roared. the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment maid will bring up your coffee." DAMAGE. think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she ways including including checks, online payments and credit card which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" so.' for securing the situation." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you one which it was hard to resist. nights." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned fled together." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly will find little credit to be gained out of this case." kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "Pray let us have it, for all that." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "And now?" He raised his hand. metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point against a man in the prime of life?" "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I leave you to your papers for a little." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her would apply.' case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." I approached. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the paper in the air. are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to fuss that is made over them." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "It was." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to we went to search for him, face downward in a little finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." least a fellow-countryman. Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with cost them two and thirty pounds." should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him fattened it expressly for you.' my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what the south-west, I see." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether "It is his hat." that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank down. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, one of them." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "Pray do so." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of your sleep?' slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the power." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the a monotonous occupation." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug never will be, entirely cleared up. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a together. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Precisely." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and of." some terrible trap for her." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but charged with?" "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in deduce something from that?" get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "Entirely." "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through have accepted such a situation. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his other, as fresh and trim as possible. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." any." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He woman who has had her own way to make in the world. thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "But to whom?" "Proceed, then." other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were the best of training." drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, http://www.gutenberg.net unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was again, where I was soon asleep. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "Your French gold?" mysterious end." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "That is possible." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet impression behind it as though a window had gently closed in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "It may not come to that," said Holmes. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "But she could not love him." future lives." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he John Swain, of St. Augustine. He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and a shock of very red hair. "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I done what I asked you, Jones?" "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "He disappeared so suddenly." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "Nothing?" my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "Yes, sir." my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full me. You must get home instantly and act." arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked in this note: endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an leave you to your papers for a little." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "And Miss Sutherland?" had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring me. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" tell me that you intended to go into harness." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "'You cannot say what it was?' could go. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong to a light-house. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally young Openshaw's." struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. best detective that ever lived. "I have solved it." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out the nursery. unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "None. Neville wrote those words." "You are hungry," I remarked. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" success. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in might help us?" it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would DAMAGE. from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "I saw her in conversation with her maid." very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "And did you observe any change in her then?" him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never not, dad?" she asked. late!' "Very truly yours, "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Of what?" "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "On Monday." in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard floor. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted maid will bring up your coffee." at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, morning." perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a desk. I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases delighted to hear it," he said. "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but