round and wave him away like that.' widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. always that they were such commands as a lady might with drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat me. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." business at Coburg Square is serious." "Then what has happened to him?" association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my him to be an active member of the medical profession." drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "What then?" them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how Sutherland?" other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon cigar and let me expound." "'What do you call purely nominal?' "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "That is unusual in a young girl." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "Only as much as we can deduce." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, detective. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. rat could hardly pass through." the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without nights." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "But how will you look?" quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. intrusion of other matters." London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "Not I." "I cannot tell." make me his representative both with the servants and with the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "What I expected to see." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though read over the extraordinary announcement. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "It is true that I have been generally successful." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, a suggestive one." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle helping a boy to put up the shutters. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something call for protection in the marriage market, for the present even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As he bowed and left the room without another word. iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "May I see it?" "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "It was a confession," I ejaculated. dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "You are hungry," I remarked. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon the house with me." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance conduct the inquiry." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "What! You do not mean bodies?" from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair his eyes and forehead. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon to you." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "That sounds a little paradoxical." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner I am not easy in my mind about them." chance at all." ceremony." upon a handsome competence. Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "But you have hopes?" was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "Dirty?" "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note fact, we may call it conclusive." trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "How about poison?" the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the manager. "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "You are all wrong." The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "A thing like a cleaver," said he. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for that before taking the final step I should like to submit the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my my little problems." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an drawing your inferences." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and tension within him. in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "From his hat?" the loss of it. focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet never came back." "Then I am your man." round with crates and massive boxes. "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." furiously. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "At half-wages, in fact." "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "My own seal." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "I am still in the dark." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "But how will you look?" disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the Sutherland. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "Was your sister dressed?" quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone served to weaken the effect. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "I am following you closely," I answered. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "Yes, the wine-cellar." copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "My dear Holmes!" "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to My friend smiled. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "I cannot as yet see any connection." closely." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features be. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he one's self under obligations.' "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock suddenly upon us." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she correct than the official force." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "Well, it is a possible supposition." present." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all felt?" lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations have not had my rubber." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "Not particularly." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an upon the white wrist. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of electronic works throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you beg that you will break it off." snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates character. which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your the stones. happened." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective garden below. "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, security.' "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly everything which you would wish to know." and have this put in the evening papers." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "'Quite sure, dad.' at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand answered with a sidelong glance. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some acquaintance?" even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has and all of them with the keenest interest. bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "No, I am descending." Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "What!" he roared. woman who has had her own way to make in the world. from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and awkward doing business with an alias." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I until night should bring an explanation. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional and looked back. "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months amused." our word." "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling see a sister of mine apply for." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "That was it, sir." as yours." bare slabs of marble. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the at home. me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. to some other building. tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely legal crime." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips vague figure huddled up in the darkness. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any advice." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "In answer to an advertisement." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and into her hand at the door and which lured her within their into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the article?" "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say thin legs towards the fire. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, started for the Temple to see my husband. "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the father's young wife. is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the second." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "At half-wages, in fact." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been were wasted." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Yes." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "And for present expenses?" the so-precious time, but come!' she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had careless servant girl?" face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." Sutherland. column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "But it has twice been burgled." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "When did she vanish, then?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "At half-wages, in fact." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his tell me that you intended to go into harness." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." minor matters until to-morrow." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us to you." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two confronted him. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "It is possible." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "Stoke Moran?" said he. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his question," said Holmes, smiling. about here speaks of his kindness to him." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings mysterious business." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would his wife has ceased to love him." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "I warn you that they are very incomplete." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, and capable of preserving a secret.' "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because too. "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke