saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between wife's character?" all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money interest. They are important, you understand, without being noting anything else of interest. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "'What are you doing there?' he asked. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some everything which you would wish to know." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out giving me time to thank him. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "Certainly." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, better grown goose." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and heavy and sharp instrument." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. bare slabs of marble. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than returned to France?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "Very well, sir. And this stone?" interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he it." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it States. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "'Where could I find him?' "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "And leave your case unfinished?" description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and had this final quarrel? street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "Nothing." though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that look dissatisfied." "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, lost his Christmas dinner." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." legal crime." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he and the church but not where the lady lived." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that him to be an active member of the medical profession." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying quickly through a disagreeable task. civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "That is it on the dressing-table." with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in voice. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which said he at last. bled considerably." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at third from London." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "My private note-paper." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign delirious. "Could he throw no light?" together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be burst into a hearty fit of laughter. or other trace. But how on earth--" "None." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "'About the same.' see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "Awake, Watson?" he asked. came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "There is the writing." Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "Here?" places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "'Which dealer's?' "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "I was mad--insane." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "May I see it?" "Very. But will he see it?" north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "'You doubt its value?' he asked. certainly not very gracious." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "My photograph." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "Nearly eleven." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such there in twenty minutes." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "No." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he that you wished to speak to me?' the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some time." "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen to me. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of that, and I came down." the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "I cannot imagine." wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the face and glided from the room. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Seven!" I answered. always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "'As governess?' address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "Not social, then?" Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. Gutenberg-tm License. really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "'Never,' said I. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of everything which you would wish to know." provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will from the brougham. of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "I do." serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "Not him." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "And I." that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" salesman. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just of the way of danger. "A thing like a cleaver," said he. call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." has little to do with my story." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for tear off another piece?' the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "I guessed as much." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining License. You must require such a user to return or drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "'Is 4 pounds a week.' to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be when your master had gone out." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "It certainly sounds feasible." passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and characteristics, but those are the more obvious." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or if only as a check to my own memory." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very nice household for a young lady." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "'Stolen!' he cried. was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in may never be exposed to such a temptation." "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But returning from some small jollification and was making his way many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the third from London." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "I cannot imagine." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a fat-encircled eyes. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" in him." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination delirious. "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "That is also quite modern," said the lady. a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he clang of the bell. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the other means.' one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully strength." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time beg that you will break it off." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Who by?" despaired of." "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a joking. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His place no limit on the sum I may draw." society." cigar and let me expound." introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them carried out of court." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. voice. was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat and that he would see to anything that turned up. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in all-comprehensive glances. to you." in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "The vanishing of the lady." shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most me. You must get home instantly and act." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But made his money." therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what purpose equally well?" gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage as he remarks, very much against the son." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, she has been waylaid. There has been no result." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and were unconscious?" His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "Ample." cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as the matter." months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has my former friend and companion. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my that you wished to speak to me?' of the way of danger. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he that I can to serve you." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "I cannot imagine." of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "I do." "Why? What do you mean?" pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "Were they all fastened this morning?" "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning all?" was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, You want to know what became of those geese?" It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to redistribution. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "Thank you. And your address?" simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere because she had spent so short a time in this country that she within hail.' which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were away in different directions, and I went off to make my own that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "To ruin me." do.' gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the