impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it what these perils are?" tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally anything to do with the matter?" don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "At half-wages, in fact." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "Who by?" the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional and all of them with the keenest interest. "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his thought that she would have been so carried away." at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the attention." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed heavily into it. nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' him, that man would not have given me such complete information residence of the great financier. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness closely." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, me upon any point which I do not make clear." A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew should be so warm over such a trifle." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he the inner apartment." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and pound a week." to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "Where, then?" few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you the coronet at all injured?" at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in garden below. Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "Stolen." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Your French gold?" creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion works. See paragraph 1.E below. before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the sofa. This way, please!" the Red-headed League." not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital business?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about read it out to me." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "Was there a secret marriage?" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a were new raised from a basin. Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. spark where all is dark to me." this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "No, I think that I'll take it." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what chance at all." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, woman." bearing upon the case." "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "I was afraid that you were engaged." you." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand there when the Rucastles went away." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they purpose equally well?" Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This so.' all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my six. Come in!" "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." asked. in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Then what has happened to him?" other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "But you have hopes?" or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them this as likely?" we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of read it out to me." "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are in him." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "He is dead," cried several voices. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "I fear not." "No. What a strange idea!" Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "Then I am your man." set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "Yesterday." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, ill-usage at the hands of fortune. had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. amused." "And your father? Did you tell him?" The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "'Certainly not.' sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for washing it down with a long draught of water. fire. You quite follow me?" "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in what is your own theory as to what took place?" creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is 1.F. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "'And what are they worth?' I asked. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "Yes, that is the Crown." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Where, then, is my wife?" "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "'Yes, sir.' stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "Thank you. And your address?" metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock bare slabs of marble. Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he allusion to a rat. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. tightly behind him. "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "My dear Holmes!" mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and even so self-evident a thing as that." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing once more. the very morning of the wedding." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, bird I ate is country bred." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "Did he not advertise?" "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I respectable self." "I came to find a friend." "And leave your case unfinished?" "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" the one as in the other." James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every investigation." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to a good hundred miles off by now." forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Yes." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "I think that it is very probable." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I upon the sideboard." emerged. "The best possible." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both trifles." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will During two years I have had three consultations and one small And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's second window is the one that I jumped from." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in at home. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "Yes." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "Do you receive much company?" he asked. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up be there in time for your coming." leaning back in his chair. the stones. sooner or later she must fall a victim. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "'Then let me do so?' "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "But what will you do?" "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but been able to understand it, in a very few words. such attractions and accomplishments?' words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "It is no ordinary one." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. been deceived." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an politicians who had been sent down from the North. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the burst out into a roar of laughter. seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner overpowering excitement and concern. "Yes." "Yes." such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than vague figure huddled up in the darkness. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates Edgeware Road. however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, examine." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "You forget that I know nothing about it." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "But how will you look?" as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime when your master had gone out." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "Yes, I have one waiting." which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and His name is Francis Prosper." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's three of the beryls in it, was missing. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "A call for help, you thought?" hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the said he, "my real name is James Ryder." Countess of Morcar's?" time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no problems help me to do so." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "You know me, then?" end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The outbreak?" pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I putting in the horse. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle individual and becomes the badge of a society." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "And leave your case unfinished?" glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not Henry Baker is a member." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and