face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have been able to understand it, in a very few words. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, one of them." "My dear Holmes!" had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in My friend smiled. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." along the entire front of the house, with three long windows I nodded again. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "What can you not understand?" far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then she to prove their authenticity?" "Then I do not see the point." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP assist you in forming an opinion." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "'How far from the body?' interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who Lee, in the county of Kent." walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia down from London to inquire more deeply into it." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "'Certainly not.' "One horse?" interjected Holmes. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the sooner or later she must fall a victim. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There served to weaken the effect. "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom passage and a tap at the door. "We were both in the photograph." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his present strange and interesting features that it is no easy demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I six. Come in!" "How do you know, then?" said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even the child." "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with national property. I was determined that the law should have its is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy your troubles." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most relation between them, and what the object of his repeated and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "And I." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and at a side door. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in Eyford at 11:15.' "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our any more." he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John sooner or later she must fall a victim. "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and persecution?" familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. throat." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own and laid it on the table. your equipment. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the with you?" "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better posted to-day." man. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the sound at heart." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, some water from a caraffe. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared be sorry for having acted so harshly." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that papers on the sundial.'" iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, four million human beings all jostling each other within the arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," country, and eventually married, without anyone having a search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his occurred." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "'Why that?' I asks. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" hurried away. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." prepare for the new role I have to play." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "Of Friday, June 19th." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "But what will you do?" "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you own family. The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from friend's singular character. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very mysterious business." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally wall." this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "Why did you beat the pavement?" "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "Pray be precise as to details," said he. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "But what harm can there be in that?" and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled directors have had misgivings upon the subject." a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of where she found matters as described by the last witness. and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. outside. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." the child." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in trying to your nerves." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "'I am sure if I had known--' so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I bonnet, and went out." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "Oh, fresh and glossy." "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' directors, with the result that you have seen." tail." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the became a certainty. I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "What of the rat, then?" helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate results." d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Well, it is a possible supposition." would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for sparkled upon his finger. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." more terrible than the truth. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five never to learn it at all." "Here?" "And from a noble client?" "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for during which he might have communicated with his friend the Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "Very murderous indeed." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to business in the City. She little knew what. insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. rooms." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all digesting their breakfasts at home." even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! that?' "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Certainly." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), the very morning of the wedding." future lives." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in delighted to hear it," he said. thirty. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate was shining brightly. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. http://gutenberg.net/license). do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be thin, with a long, sharp nose?" Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and "Quite so. She has her freedom." from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very Count Von Kramm." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the bird of prey. "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "But what is it you wish?" "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A ready to-morrow?' without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance at a side door. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to train from Paddington which would bring you there at about scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he From what you have told me I think that it is possible that has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so was not a bird to be seen there. "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "Never." observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the handed it to him. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have rat could hardly pass through." wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was Mrs. Toller serenely. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "'In my own bureau.' accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting unkempt, staring out at me. work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at second." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of to take care of herself." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a my special province." call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his better in every way that they should make their position a little the dangers which encompass me." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out future lives." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a DAMAGE. his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned bearing upon the case." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" time." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which certainly do as you advise." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "I will get her to show me." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying undoubtedly my uncle's." coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not gbnewby@pglaf.org found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "Stolen, then." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special easy-going way." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "No." Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "Yes." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with 1.E.9. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "But you would not advise me to refuse?" eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the imbecility!" he cried. with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Dr. Becher's." late." "And why in hopes?" just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could introspective fashion. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "It is his hat." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that my friend's incisive reasoning. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the himself to hunt down. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "No more words. Get out!" to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar