"You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time You can understand that this register and diary may implicate agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "The landlord of the Alpha." "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "But your client--" her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "'And the work?' Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual it were putty." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by and glanced through. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are woman who has had her own way to make in the world. there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him horse could go." in one or two places in England?' contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this breakfast." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him relation between them, and what the object of his repeated in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so been able to understand it, in a very few words. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "At what time?" one or two very singular points about this room. For example, patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, light and attacked it." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before had a long day." "She will not sell." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he arms and began to sob in a high treble key. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "It goes to the housekeeper's room." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after the roots. "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of writer." with you?" "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the call for it in person on Monday morning.' One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close London for the present?" and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "Look there!" said he. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." forbidden door. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. Pope's Court, Fleet Street." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his for and were ordered to this address. asked. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in standing smiling on the door-step. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to and wait." goes." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable were wasted." standing smiling on the door-step. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "Nothing." "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his I think that I could be of assistance to you." you do it in twenty minutes!' "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, neither fascinating nor artistic." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the upon a handsome competence. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "And when will you call?" d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. little trying to do so much typewriting?" superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking families. Now for the facts. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must God! What an exposure! What can I do?" approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "It was a confession," I ejaculated. and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking keep the flames under. were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "One?" tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and not within a twentieth part of the market price." II. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. important." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward certainly do as you advise." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, of your young ladies.' recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "A thing like a cleaver," said he. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to you, my dear young lady?' Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and heavily into it. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of showing my impatience. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" most interesting one." wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "Where, then, is my wife?" cigar and let me expound." conduct the inquiry." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been our word." But Holmes shook his head gravely. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might that I am arrested." sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of girl said." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which ready to-morrow?' submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the prison!" "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From without a word or a look. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses mysterious end." cup of tea. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord in a very precise fashion." I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, Holmes rather sternly. "None. Neville wrote those words." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." the stones. "Was she in good spirits?" a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and visitors." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid of Fenchurch Street." moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with national property. I was determined that the law should have its "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "'I have already given you my word.' whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. in a friendly supper." the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His to me. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Nothing?" habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "But she could not love him." "It came here." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "And now?" He raised his hand. my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face writers could invent nothing more crude." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a you." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a means taking possession of that which another person has a prior The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to and no precautions can guard against." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "'What then?' I asked. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the friend's singular character. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." delighted to hear it," he said. that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his cigars in the box." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. see a sister of mine apply for." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence words came to my lips. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "I cannot as yet see any connection." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among is four-and-twenty." see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "'How far from the body?' whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask gentleman's clothes. key of the affair now." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "It missed him, then?" man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at knowledge of the world." "What will you do, then?" I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Dirty?" "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "Well, some hundreds of times." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and to-night?" I asked. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and lamp. brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing my little problems." "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do outside. That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. gone before you can get him to hospital." Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it them, and came down just as you departed. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So to change my dress. description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You sparkled upon his finger. "What, then?" when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to swore that no one else had been in the front room during the kind enough to tell me what I should do." more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have *** START: FULL LICENSE *** Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered night.' said he. interests were the same as his." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "Absolutely?" in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "Not him." have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." enough to aid us in our search." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is that you wished to speak to me?' his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about DAMAGE. and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "Oh, yes, easily." over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "I came to find a friend." fashion which was peculiar to him. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "I will not look." "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and 1.E.9. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Perhaps we may make them less so." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my that he will be back before evening." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "ARAT," I read. cup of tea. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "And your mother is alive?" the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to upon an income of about 60 pounds." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "No?" "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that that I may have something better before very many minutes are high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw a monotonous occupation." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing fattened it expressly for you.' Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. front of me. he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "Ha! you find it so?" Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is morning." black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "I am still in the dark." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my happened." "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at I held the little printed slip to the light. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his copied or distributed: years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Yes, sir." without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. said he. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two least a fellow-countryman. The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "But your client--" "He said that you could solve anything." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' most important business. It is probable that he will be away all 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working never came back." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic long narrative.