upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "Look there!" said he. the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "No. What a strange idea!" anything to do with the matter?" sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his note?" his huge brown hands. ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, careless servant girl?" information in his hands the value of which he did not himself With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "You think so, too?" hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in foot. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered visitors." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a in the hope of finding them." Munro.' bachelor.' been with you?" wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long never came back." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his soul! here is her carriage at the door." "Yes." bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to the station." them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "VIOLET HUNTER." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker disturbance in my wife." "Whose house is it?" "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "It certainly sounds feasible." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built sneer upon his pale face. However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying side. with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a be there in time for your coming." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "I came to find a friend." "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "That is not always so easy." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I someone who had been in Australia." and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "But his left-handedness." my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our good-night and bustled off upon her way. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the national property. I was determined that the law should have its round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be frequently gained my first real insight into the character of surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs whether it answered to the description of any of their "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler signal between you and your father? was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, weapon." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "ARAT," I read. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Countess of Morcar's?" crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "'How far from the body?' "By no means." "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered you." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "It is no ordinary one." "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple During two years I have had three consultations and one small could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business used to be." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off presented more singular features than that which was associated the side-table." through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard fishes. quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." Cross for the Continent." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "Bought." play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man not fit the lock." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." him and tried to hold him back. analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "The Coroner: What do you mean? who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "To ruin me." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. your own bird, so if you wish--" gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." Street. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the was a lad." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" It may be so in this case, also." fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do *** START: FULL LICENSE *** If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project than was visible to me." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "BALLARAT." Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of daring than any effort of the imagination." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "Of what?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the good for you to do.' received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "The best possible." "You saw the ventilator, too?" which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose our word." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "That is it on the dressing-table." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. dead, shall be safe with us." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "Then he might have called to you?" thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of may never be exposed to such a temptation." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a know all about it," he snarled. and prosperity to your house. Good-night." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may question," said Holmes, smiling. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "A greater distance to travel." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my despair." had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "What! You do not mean bodies?" his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the stood on the top of it. "Always." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at coroner's jury." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the get her out of the way." residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "Very much so." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Yes?" enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "No, distinctly professional." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever you?' Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of security.' "How did he come?" "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "It's nothing of the kind." "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "At the wedding breakfast." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a unclasping of his long thin hands. hereditary King of Bohemia." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Yes, he did." From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting amused." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the outbreak?" side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back sneer upon his pale face. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable handed it to him. "To an English lawyer named Norton." the so-precious time, but come!' companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "And I say east," said my patient. "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the three of the beryls in it, was missing. rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "My private note-paper." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. "It is a murder, then?" was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "The best possible." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That call it cruel." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used affection." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the me what he had done with the three missing stones. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done III. "BALLARAT." "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," about here speaks of his kindness to him." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "I have hopes." and it need not interfere very much with one's other "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "ARAT," I read. betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "Ah!" "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "This concluded the examination of the witness." "Why did you beat the pavement?" shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to the inner apartment." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing suspect him." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "9th. McCauley cleared. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at case-book, which he consulted. Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those acquaintance?" woman." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing he died? "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your papers." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Was there a secret marriage?" myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Perhaps I have." that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an asked with his eyes open. the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "You think so, too?" Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Miss Holder?" real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. must compliment you." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "We must sit without light. He would see it through the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "It came here." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been to where he stood hid behind the curtain. burst out into a roar of laughter. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the Dr. Gregory B. Newby Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had a little more before I quite committed myself. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "To ruin me." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave room?" shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I never came back." his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. of his shoulders. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a returned to France?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for point our research must commence, and we will begin it by photograph?" smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "You horrify me!" pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "It is solved." ceremony." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." taking in every detail of the apartment. a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and them, and came down just as you departed. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "On your arm?" "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I tell him that I know him to be innocent." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback himself to tell his story. the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." clanging. it." desk. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and to surprise her." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less companion. of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "He said that you could solve anything." sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon affection." enough to aid us in our search." street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society my little problems." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me.