visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "But how could you guess what the motive was?" crime. music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more closing the door. "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "No, finished." that the gas is not laid on in his house?" away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step means taking possession of that which another person has a prior took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "Well, some hundreds of times." fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our be sorry for having acted so harshly." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "No. What a strange idea!" in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch 'please.'" be best to do. Holmes rather sternly. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is held up the lantern and gazed about him. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "And from a noble client?" rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "Then I do not see the point." tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, laugh and put his lips to my ear. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, have not had my rubber." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "It is a murder, then?" mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One soul! here is her carriage at the door." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "Holmes, the busybody!" there were so many in the whole country as were brought together me upon any point which I do not make clear." "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and his face. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and at my remark. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." charge against him will break down." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a orange pips. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm enough to aid us in our search." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "An accident, I presume?" whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' which was all perfectly true. rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps easy-going way." "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "Well, but China?" "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but the Friday. Was it to be in church?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "And I say east," said my patient. swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's again, where I was soon asleep. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by affair. "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "How many? I don't know." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out not interfere, come what may. You understand?" was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, just ask you whether you had heard it.' flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Oh, yes, easily." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the Street. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "So I have heard." from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "And the cigar-holder?" "Stolen, then." facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you dead, shall be safe with us." to have that photograph." zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "If I can be of use." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey chair. furiously. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to flock.' and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them whole matter to your consideration." what do you think they found in the pockets?" sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before intrusion of other matters." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at roused himself from his reverie. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote it." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Henry Baker is a member." "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My if only as a check to my own memory." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Two days later this same performance was gone through under for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter views." "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the three fields round his house, and there he would take his adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found Street. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of your room." it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Entirely." freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit and your relations to her." "'What then?' I asked. say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Yes?" purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Yes, I have one waiting." enter into my head. "You have carte blanche." "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and gentleman's clothes. "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort or in danger--" "It is possible." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. what I may call a really hard day's work." "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the strange features which were associated with the two crimes which upon a handsome competence. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the himself. leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time bird of prey. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of ordinary clothes on?" upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There wedding?" of the way of danger. "By all means." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he crime. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and beyond words. attention." second." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." once more. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "Your French gold?" Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious his cane at the bell-pull. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "Yes, sir." Sutherland?" 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "Yes." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "And what did you see?" of them has the shutters up.' as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple I. disturbance in my wife." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself ways including including checks, online payments and credit card details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your said he at last. put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had past. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the nice household for a young lady." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the the general public were present, then?" "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would guilty parties." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "I am sure." "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow rooms." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was rat could hardly pass through." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our fait accompli?" table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "In answer to an advertisement." the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "No, thank goodness, she did not." eavesdroppers?' downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Very murderous indeed." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms said he. He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some place of silver." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "My Mary? Impossible!" said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black you in yours." man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the once more on the important position which you have been fortunate forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a despaired of." "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "But you have hopes?" memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "'It is locked up,' I answered. sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It Dr. Gregory B. Newby Young McCarthy must be got off, however." shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "You are hungry," I remarked. Farm upon the left." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which back to my heart. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are I approached. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with one of the states of the Union." as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." upon the sideboard." "From his hat?" has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and to have been novel and of interest." night.' said he. "I am in hopes that she does." half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "I answered that I had not. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "What then?" relation between them, and what the object of his repeated provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." hurried away. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "It was a confession," I ejaculated. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow heavily into it. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "I think that it is very probable." Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the with you?" and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said dates and names. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear obstinate." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note such person." "Nearly eleven." voice, changing her seat as requested. your equipment. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my me where it went to?" in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "He disappeared so suddenly." from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "And how did you find out?" cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" shadow pass over his face as I spoke. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Thank you. And your address?" - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "What?" possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own "I was mad--insane." past. death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester,