fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "But how could you guess what the motive was?" four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through with her." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his not as remarkable as your advertisement." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time could gather together that I was able to avert another public time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an brain must have something in it." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at all that?" "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, thought that she would have been so carried away." well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a was once confined in the cab my mission was practically village inn over there?" the devil!" think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it lamp. however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "And your mother is alive?" all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "And sit in the dark?" my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, to some other building. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in conduct the inquiry." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would is entirely a question of barometric pressure." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of him." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed invisible to me," I remarked. without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Eh? What was that?" quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "'Very good.' which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "You have compromised yourself seriously." specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." foot. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to fuss that is made over them." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" photograph a cabinet?" animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "Why did you pick him?" information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there sit on the left-hand side of the driver." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that just called myself is not exactly my own." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a like gravel from a pit.' the nursery. License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "You have it, sir, just as it happened." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "None." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." made his money." and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice For additional contact information: "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy you give your casting vote to?" since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. other, as fresh and trim as possible. "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "Dirty?" postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Have you her photograph?" some water from a caraffe. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "To an English lawyer named Norton." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and McCarthy's innocence. Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug to-night?' We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the acquaintance?" he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for not use it unless it is absolutely needed." him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I not use it unless it is absolutely needed." very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "Not in the least." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, photograph?" shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "It is no ordinary one." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both bonnet, and went out." remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen away to you." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more seen the man in the road." and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on most interesting one." handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a sufficient punishment." appeared upon the scene." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we advice." were unconscious?" rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm the general public were present, then?" had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "By no means." miles off. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. ventilator." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "I assure you that I am in your hands." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the him nearly every evening." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "On the contrary, this is the right side." as noiselessly as she had come. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying your room." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, once more. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some of his shoulders. so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought tension within him. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "And you don't know his address?" spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "But who is he?" "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "Dr. Becher's." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop call for protection in the marriage market, for the present and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the comes from the middle window." "I am sure." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea were wasted." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole if she died from some sudden fright." "Quite so." quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes miles off. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth it." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that had died away into the silence from which it rose. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect trying to your nerves." "He is dead," cried several voices. then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside already referred to. danger is over." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to 1.E.9. his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. recover the gem." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "But it has twice been burgled." "Imitated." daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He in the hope of finding them." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion companion. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "But his left-handedness." existence." on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and closely." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "But how did you gain them?" coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, works. See paragraph 1.E below. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more present strange and interesting features that it is no easy never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a quite distinctive." "There is the writing." compunction about shooting them down." "It is no ordinary one." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the it." "If I can be of use." having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your tassel actually lying upon the pillow. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the back alive. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "No good news?" strong reason behind." the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' minor matters until to-morrow." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion rat could hardly pass through." enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the child?' wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage made his money." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" already been minutely examined." Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." of receipt of the work. an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "Entirely." "You are all wrong." room had already been engaged for us. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, said Mr. Holder. that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they intrusion of other matters." call it cruel." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "He disappeared so suddenly." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on emerged. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of with you alone." charge against him will break down." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "Yes." once more. "My dear Holmes!" determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies seen the man in the road." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger.