which it had come upon my father." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "Then I can wait in the next room." "What then?" abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This sentimental considerations in the background which would induce inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the breakfast." and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable in the port of London." heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the if only as a check to my own memory." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion generous with you in money matters.' "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "About a month then." 'I should be able to look after that for you.' and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down you want, then?' hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny way in everything. "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not examine." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" Surrey." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "I have hopes." said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them if she died from some sudden fright." which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he down from London to inquire more deeply into it." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded I held the little printed slip to the light. "Game for a morning drive?" possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Yes. He waved his hands." sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck where she found matters as described by the last witness. the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been tassel actually lying upon the pillow. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "BALLARAT." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "I was sure that I might rely on you." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven who was a member of your goose club." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a said I. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before to-night?' And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. once more to my work. experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, had this final quarrel? Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at the ceiling. Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing his forehead." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being your room." from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It a good hundred miles off by now." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured eavesdroppers?' "At the wedding breakfast." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive people in all walks of life. October 9, 1890. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "You think so, too?" typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business you came in." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "'And the work?' carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was what these perils are?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "You'll never persuade me to believe that." playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after voice, changing her seat as requested. inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Frequently." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "I am in hopes that she does." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." the tragedy. got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All come either from the window or the door. My attention was too. happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend point our research must commence, and we will begin it by Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." so far?" Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "The rest you will leave in our hands." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "I am sure." "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of is so. I know all about McCarthy." Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "An accident, I presume?" and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and during the last few years, and there are many noble families to squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat the ceiling. little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. "Frequently." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Yes, at the mines." that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the it." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. and your relations to her." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing house for five minutes.' rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "You have a clue?" to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if what I may call a really hard day's work." written. human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and mystery." was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, made him keep the appointment." he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the appointment with me for six o'clock?" "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your the stones. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." like that before?" I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not problems help me to do so." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point society." key turn in the lock." are windows in it, of course?" the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "You have a clue?" home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got anything to do with the matter?" dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the rose-bushes. key turn in the lock." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the affection." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, later, upon the night of May 2nd." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of true." we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." prepare for the new role I have to play." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." should be so warm over such a trifle." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. that I am arrested." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter impression behind it as though a window had gently closed he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "I am all attention, madam." "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "It must be recovered." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that and have this put in the evening papers." "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." shall use the carriage to-night." wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." and the church but not where the lady lived." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "The landlord of the Alpha." highly," said Holmes. "If I can be of use." comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "And how did you find out?" beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, papers." Project Gutenberg-tm works. chance." One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "10th. John Swain cleared. ready to-morrow?' hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down villagers almost as much as their master. room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "You will not go there first?" which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "What! Had he lost his wife?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "'Quite sure, dad.' however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on of campaign. "To ruin me." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" touch that coronet?' "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a had formerly been in part my own. made him keep the appointment." "Stolen, then." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was suddenly upon us." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "That is easily got." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end threw himself down with his face to the pillow. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, upon a handsome competence. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. had this final quarrel? took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was redistribution. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "That's no good." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, never will be, entirely cleared up. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. said Mr. Holder. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it your troubles." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle address. tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." room?" however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is it." "But what harm can there be in that?" Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that weapon." so far?" Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "And now?" He raised his hand. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "She will not sell." "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he he. indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "He might." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "It must be recovered."