this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far there." "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing room?" case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "Proceed, then." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "Nothing." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our made him keep the appointment." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. Have you good authority for what you say?" words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress forbidden door. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "Yes." customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," shaken than I had ever seen him. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. ventilator." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "One horse?" interjected Holmes. would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping come either from the window or the door. My attention was even so self-evident a thing as that." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "A confidential servant?" at a side door. "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "Why? What do you mean?" you found me to-night--and running through the front room she pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab was lame." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my have I gained?" to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right have an American origin." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the have got?" extraordinary contortions. "'Quite sure, dad.' traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "You think that he is dead?" to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the this poor creature." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "Can I be of assistance?" from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is himself to hunt down. That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of new duties?' taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction drove away. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my it? Did I buy the geese off you?" my room." results." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "Entirely." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance developed." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" within hail.' "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I him." there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me Where does the thing come from?' and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I coat-tails." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" future lives." did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "Yes." And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the nonsense.' you in your example." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "You horrify me." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "I say that I have solved it." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "'Quite sure, dad.' upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other any little problem which you may submit to me." been deceived." "I cannot as yet see any connection." you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle young Openshaw's." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "I am armed." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. I took the paper from him and read as follows: cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country disappearance of these gems?" "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "I would give my fortune to have them back." Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. License. You must require such a user to return or return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds "Always." is so. I know all about McCarthy." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and of the efforts of the United States government and of the better this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "Ah!" said I. "My photograph." "It is very clear." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. believe that I should never have any practice at all. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers distance from the station, and there we found the young lady What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and young Openshaw's." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of and inquire as to the address." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "No." or other trace. But how on earth--" I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "And who is her maid?" "Yes?" presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her which are rolled in Rotterdam." behind me. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her What do you deduce from it?" be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the unclasping of his long thin hands. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "You will not go there first?" that he has suffered." wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the was used.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be Street. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "I will, Miss Turner." it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "You have the photograph?" kindly on the shoulder. the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "Nothing." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, despair." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' this Miss Turner." a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "Always." it." "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" me, and I could not think that his explanation of the shag which I had seen upon the previous night. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle house for five minutes.' practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall I held the little printed slip to the light. "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. and glanced through. "Where, indeed?" "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking envelope. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "And did you observe any change in her then?" American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "Really! You surprise me." This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. The note was undated, and without either signature or address. wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously row." cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "My dear Holmes!" "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any country, and eventually married, without anyone having a newspaper selections." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to just called myself is not exactly my own." "What are they?" untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect when you have done it." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "This photograph!" there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is promised to bring home. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution other lovers by making love himself." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "And what did you learn from him?" even so self-evident a thing as that." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, Again Holmes raved in the air. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included chance at all." "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the DISSOLVED. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Stoke Moran?" said he. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the telegram would bring me down to your help." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "Ample." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. province." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which weigh very heavily upon my conscience." stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must despaired of." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a quickly through a disagreeable task. "Then, how do you know?" "So I have heard." were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "'And the work?' Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly with the outside air!" half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "Dark enough and sinister enough." be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "We must sit without light. He would see it through the a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were to a light-house. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, voice. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of the coronet in his hand?" 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "None." "That sounds a little paradoxical." other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "Yes, sir." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "So I am. Very much so." with her." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "Then I can wait in the next room." Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "The Cedars?" registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me do you make of it all?" or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, fattened it expressly for you.' painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are cause to be." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you in his hands." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son what these perils are?" sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "And how have you succeeded?" "What office?" "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "'Is 4 pounds a week.' and no precautions can guard against." stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the whole matter to your consideration." "Did you observe the colour?" way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a ashen face. "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes ventilator." "I cannot say that I have." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining